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Published on August 3, 2015
The Food Minister handed over the award to the Prime Minister at the beginning of the cabinet meeting held at Bangladesh secretariat today, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said.
Advocate Quamrul Islam, on behalf of the Prime Minister, received the FAO award at a special event titled 'Recognizing Notable and Outstanding Progress
in Fighting Hunger' organized on the sideline of the 39th session of the FAO in Rome on June 7, 2015.
The Achievement Award mentioned that Bangladesh reached target of 1(C) of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce country's population sufferings from undernourishment by at least 50 percent or to bring it below 5 percent, between 1990 and 2015.
The Cabinet Secretary said that Bangladesh has already achieved the target of reducing the number of people suffering from undernourishment by at least 50 percent before 2015. The Award is another feather to the crown of success of Bangladesh, he said.
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