CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Proposal for Resolution No. 9/XI/1.

Attending to the importance of the United Nations Agriculture Organization and

Food (FAO) in the fight against world poverty and famine, Portugal celebrated a

agreement with this Organization that aims to establish an Information Office in Lisbon.

The creation of the office aims to strengthen the capacity to fight hunger and poverty, to the

level of technical cooperation and mutual cooperation. It aims to still facilitate and improve the exchange

of information and knowledge among the Member States of the Community of Countries of

Portuguese Language (CPLP) in the support and strengthening of your technical cooperation in this area

primordial from combating hunger and poverty.

The FAO Information Office aims to still familiarise public opinion with the

work of this Organization sensitizing it to the issue of world hunger.

The establishment of an office of the United Nations Agriculture Organization

and Food in Lisbon is privileging Portugal for locating in its territory a focus of

diffusion and sharing of information in the fight against world poverty and hunger.

Thus:

Under the terms of the paragraph d) of Article 197 (1) of the Constitution, the Government presents to the

Assembly of the Republic the following motion for a resolution:

CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Proposal for Resolution No. 9/XI/1.

Approve the Agreement between the Portuguese Republic and the United Nations Organization for the

Agriculture and Food Relative to the Establishment of an Information Office

of the Organisation in Lisbon, signed in Lisbon, on July 25, 2008, the text of which

authenticated versions in the Portuguese and English languages, it publishes in attachment.

Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of February 18, 2010

The Prime Minister

The Minister of State and Foreign Affairs

The Minister of the Presidency

The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs