Kazakh FM, FAO Director-General had a talk
19:11, 3 May 2011
ASTANA. May 3. KAZINFORM /Askar Bimendin/ Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Kazykhanov met today with FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf in Astana.
The parties debated economic growth, social development, environmental protection issues and the ways to find out an optimal balance between them.
During the meeting Kazykhanov noted that Kazakhstan is widely recognized as one of the largest grain suppliers in the world through taking part in foreign food assistance programs and underlined that the country's agrarian sector has a huge potential for further increase in output.