By KUNA,
United Nations : UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to attend the International Conference on Afghanistan in Paris, France, on June 12 and then pay official visits to the United Kingdom on June 13 and Saudi Arabia on June 14, it was announced here on Thursday.
A UN official told KUNA Ban wants to thank the Saudi Government for the USD 500 million it granted to the World Food Programme (WFP) in support of its efforts to cope with the food crisis.
The official added that Ban is not scheduled to visit any other GCC country.
Ban is also scheduled to attend the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bio-energy hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome June 3-5.
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