Oleg Kobyakov, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office for Liaison with the Russian Federation. Archival photoMOSCOW, 9 Jun. Russia cannot be excluded from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said Oleg Kobyakov, director of the organization's liaison office with the Russian Federation. «Regarding the statement of Mr. (Vladimir) Zelensky, made today in his online speech to the OECD Committee of Ministers, to exclude Russia from FAO — you cannot erase Russia from the map with a rubber band: the largest power in the field of agriculture,» Kobyakov said at the Valdai Discussion Club during a discussion on the global food crisis. He also said that FAO opposes restrictive measures, in in particular against Russia, and considers it necessary to analyze them and, if possible, refuse to use them.
