SANTO Domingo- Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales today said he confides in the measures the United Nations Food Organization (FAO) member countries will apply to confront the world crisis in the short, medium and long term.

He said on April 28 and 29, when the United Nations System’s Executive Council held an emergency meeting to analyze the crisis created by high food prices, it was agreed on a common strategy based on parallel needs of current nourishment deficiencies and to design a plan for the future.

Morales said a Global Food Crisis Action Unit was created for adopting strategies for a food program aimed at covering the deficit with 755 million dollars for the World Food Program (WFP), offering emergency aid to 75 million people.

The strategy includes a US$1.7 billion dollars contribution for the initiative called food-price rises promoted by the FAO to improve access to land and water, and to provide essential seeds such as fertilizers and other instruments to motor agro-alimentary production.

Morales said in the medium and long term the United Nations will set out to consolidate its agencies, especially the FAO, as research organizations to support governments in their decision-making capacity to improve farm production.