Caretaker Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Haj Hassan, left today for Syria at the head of a ministerial delegation to partake in the Arab agricultural quartet summit, which will be held on Sunday and Monday in the capital, Damascus, with the participation of the Iraqi, Jordanian and Syrian ministers of agriculture. The summit will be held under the headlime, “Towards Achieving Agricultural Economic Integration”. The two-day meeting of ministers will tackle the results reached in the quadripartite meetings held during the past year in Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, and ways to enhance trade exchange and food security, mechanisms to support regional projects, confront climate challenges and land degradation, and improve agricultural produce in the four countries.
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon