Armenia envoy highlights agri-food resilience at UN

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Paruyr Hovhannisyan, underscored the vital importance of reinforcing agricultural food systems during a special UN meeting on food system transformation.

At a special meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council dedicated to the transformation of agricultural food systems, Armenia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Paruyr Hovhannisyan, highlighted the crucial role of strengthening agri-food systems in ensuring food security and nutrition, building resilient economies, creating jobs, and increasing value added and trade competitiveness, the Armenian Permanent Mission to the UN reported.

He noted that agricultural food systems have become one of the key pillars of action in the field of biodiversity, integrating food security, climate resilience, rural development, poverty reduction, and the preservation of ecosystem integrity.

The ambassador also emphasized that within the framework of Armenia’s presidency of COP17, close cooperation is planned with the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Food and Agriculture Organization to implement initiatives that will strengthen the role of agri-food systems in biodiversity conservation and support joint efforts toward more sustainable use of natural resources.

The 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity will take place from October 18 to 30, 2026, at the Meridian Expo Center in Yerevan.