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PERMANENT MISSION TO UN HOLDS DISCUSSION ABOUT CO-OPERATIVES

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Permanent Representative Office of Mongolia to the United Nations (UN) held an event themed “Development Goals Beyond 2015 and Co-operatives” on October 21 in New York, USA. Co-organized with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and International Co-operatives Alliance (ICA), the event gathered representatives from over 20 countries that actively conduct Co-operatives such as Brazil, Finland, Canada, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Japan, Malaysia, Sweden and Switzerland, and from the FAO, the ECOSOC, the International Labour Organization, and the World Food Programme. The permanent representative of Mongolia to the UN, ambassador O.Och has chaired the event. Globally, some 250 million people make their living based on co-operatives, which are considered to be the most human-centered and democratic form of agricultural farming. The participants of this meeting solidly agreed that co-operatives greatly contributed in implementations of the Millenium Development Goals and that it has to be reflected to the Development goals beyond 2015. They have decided to seek possibilities to include the matters of co-operatives to the document’s sections about approaches to implement goals on reducing poverty, and on agriculture, food security and sustainable development, or to coordinate them to the issues of development financing. In frames of the UNGA resolution on Roles of Co-operatives in Social Development, initiated by Mongolia, year 2012 was announced as the Year of International Co-operatives, and this year has been named as the Year to promote Family Farming, by the FAO.

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