Jacques Diouf Quotations

Later, security forces surrounded the building and stormed (it), ... They arrested the man. But unfortunately, we have now a situation with two of our staff dead.

It's normal to do that and it's good to be ready should this happen. But for the time being we have 140 million birds killed or dying or have died because of avian influenza, with $10 billion of costs ... and it is still there (in Asia) that we are having contamination to human beings.

The oceans play a crucial role in sustaining life on earth,

The question is, what do we do? Do we let things continue or do we change?

Too much time has gone by and even now we seem to focus more on addressing a possible pandemic which is spread from human to human.

We cannot afford to wait to battle the disease in pharmacies and hospitals, ... but need to get rid of the virus in affected farmers' backyards.

Developed countries thought that this was going on in Asia, that it was far away and that we were exaggerating the risks of the epidemic.

If, as we think, migratory birds will be one of the ways by which avian influenza is spreading around the world, we can expect ... the problem in the Near East, in East and West Africa and naturally in North America and South America,

We are very anxious because the problem started in November-December of 2003,

Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope