Senator Coburn calls for U.N. head of Food and Agriculture Organization to resign

Attention-starved dictators are invited guests at U.S.-funded conference on world hunger

Senator Tom Coburn sent letters to the Secretary of State, Secretary of Agriculture, and the Administrator of USAID requesting all taxpayer support of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) be terminated until its director general, Jacques Diouf, resigns. Diouf made a mockery of the 2008 World Food Summit by inviting Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to participate. Both men are responsible for the misery and starvation of millions.

Key Facts:

• Taxpayers fund the FAO over $100 million annually from member dues and additional, voluntary contributions.
• The 2008 World Food Summit in Rome is being attended by dozens of U.S. government employees from the Department of State, Department of Agriculture and USAID.

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