D-8 Organization to Cooperate Intensively on Marine and Fertilizer Issues

Cairo, Egypt | April 13, 2010 by D-8 Secretariat

D-8 Organization recently has successfully held the first D-8 Senior Officials Meeting on Marine Affairs and Fisheries & Fertilizers, with conjunction to the first D-8 Ministerial Meeting on Marine Affairs and Fisheries & Fertilizers, in Cairo, Egypt on April 6-8, 2010

D-8 Organization recently has successfully held the first D-8 Senior Officials Meeting on Marine Affairs and Fisheries & Fertilizers, with conjunction to the first D-8 Ministerial Meeting on Marine Affairs and Fisheries & Fertilizers, in Cairo, Egypt on April 6-8, 2010. The meeting was organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of the Arab Republic of Egypt and attended by various delegations representing both the public and private sectors of member countries of the D-8.

Productive discussion were held thorough the meeting, which covered the contemporary cooperation issues in fertilizer and marine affairs, as the continuation of the food security cooperation framework designed during the Kuala Lumpur meeting last year (25-27 February) that resulted in the KL Initiative to Address the Food Security in D-8 Countries. Each member countries presented the information relevant to their current situation in each sector and exchanged their expertise with experts from member countries.

In the fertilizer sector, the presentations made by the member countries has formed the guiding principles for the working group to determine the priorities according to terms of reference of D-8 group on this particular sector. The meeting has resulted in several recommendation such as the present working group of fertilizer, in which Egypt is the prime mover, should continue to be a permanent standing committee on fertilizer and in cooperation with the secretariat in Istanbul and the establishment of joint research & technological collaboration in production and supply of fertilizers and to meet every 6 month to discuss special topics workshops. Most importantly, in this meeting it was also shared the common target to develop joint investment programs in the field of fertilizer production by encouraging and supporting investors and private sector. This has eminently resulted in the agreement among Egypt, Iran & Turkey to cooperate by establishing a J.V fertilizer complex in Egypt for the production of (SA / PA / DAP/ TSP). The parties also invited all other D-8 countries to join in this project.

The fertilizer meeting also confirmed its readiness to cooperate with other international organizations such as FAO and others.

Productive discussion were held thorough the meeting, which covered the contemporary cooperation issues in fertilizer and marine sectors, as the continuation of the food security cooperation framework in KL

While in the marine meeting, several productive results were reached such as the broadening of cooperation to the Technology Transfer in marine and fresh water aquaculture, fish feed manufacturing, coral conservation and management, exchange of researchers, technical staff and cooperation among research institutes; Training Programs in the field of marine, fresh and brackish water farming, hatchery technology and integrated aquaculture, as well as marine fisheries and inland waters management, fish and fisheries processing  quality control, and also to effectively make use of the available training programs organized by the D-8 Member Countries, such as the program of Malaysia and Egypt. The meeting agreed to provide the D-8 secretariat a list of the regular training courses in Member Countries and collect the training courses needed in as well.

During the Ministerial Meeting, Iran proposed to hold the Second D-8 Ministerial Meeting on Food Security and Turkey announced its readiness to host the Second Working Meeting on Marine Affairs and Fisheries which were welcomed by all delegations.

D-8 Secretariat expected that all prime movers to follow up the results of these meetings.

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