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ASEM Consultative Meeting on Food Security, the fourth side event of the ASEM Summit, concluded in Ulaanbaatar on June 21. The meeting has been attended by a total of 130 participants, including agriculture-responsible government and non-governmental organizations from 17 ASEM member countries, and delegates of international organizations carrying out food and agricultural projects. 

“Food security is one of the crucial issues in the future of Asia and Europe, thus, recommendations from this discussion will be reflected in the upcoming ASEM Summit document,” said State Secretary Ariunbold Namsrai of Ministry of Food and Agriculture, who opened the meeting and welcomed the delegates.

The meeting had three plenary sessions, on Food Production, Security, and Nutrition. Speakers included senior officials from Malaysia’s Ministry of Health, Spain’s Public Health Regional Authority, People’s Republic of China’s Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Delegation of European Union to Mongolia and China, as well as resident representatives of World Health Organization, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, EU’s Support to the Modernization of the Mongolian Standardization System Project. 

“We have successfully discussed issues of food security in Asia and Europe, including transportation and logistics, malnutrition risks for adolescents and infants, obesity, and veterinary disease,” said Binderya Batsukh, Chairman of the Meeting and Head of Foreign Relations in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. “Mongolia has been striving to grow its meat exports, and we have talked about how to prevent from trans-border veterinary diseases, such as foot-and-mouth disease, from the best practices of Kazakhstan, China, and Russia.”

The delegates discussed the impacts of climate change for food production, food additives, and genetically modified food production as a biotechnology tool. Another facet of the discussion was focused on health-related issues, including breastfeeding, obesity, and the food produce and product verification issues. The drafting committee issued a protocol of the meeting, which will be submitted for the ASEM Summit on July 15.

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