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[caption id="attachment_17517" align="alignnone" width="690"] CREM 6th anniversary June 2016 Photo:©Ed Wright Images[/caption] The Club for Foreign Residents in Monaco (CREM) has celebrated its seventh anniversary on June 1. Under the Presidency of Honour of HSH Prince Albert, CREM, which is a private club that promotes relations between its members and their integration into Monaco life, has more than 400 members, representing 45 different nationalities. Since its creation, CREM has been involved in the attractiveness of the Principality by organising informational meetings for new residents in collaboration with government institutions, including the Welcome Office, which now holds sessions on the premises. But the club's primary mission has always been to offer residents of all nationalities, ages and social backgrounds, a warm and welcoming place to meet other residents and understand the institutional, political and cultural life of the Principality. From May, the club is also open in the morning. Members can enjoy the club facilities from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 12:30 pm and from 2 pm to 9 pm. CREM offers above all an ideal setting for appointments in complete peace and confidentiality, which is very much appreciated by the members. CREM has organised more than 1,000 activities, workshops, visits and evenings over the past seven years, and has decided to focus its activities on exclusive or exceptional events, such as the private visit to the underground CERN facilities in Geneva which was organised in March. The club also places a priority on developing relationships between members. This is why a new programme of activities aimed at strengthening the ties between members will be proposed in September, including the creation of "small dinners between members" which will make it possible to put the club's dinner table to good use. For further information, see CREM's website.  

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The Committee on World Food Security, the foremost intergovernmental platform to ensure food security and good nutrition for all, met last week in Rome with a Monaco delegation in attendance.

The meeting brought forth two annual reports. One on the state of food security worldwide, which saw a depressing increase in world hunger statistics for the third year running. The report found that more than 820 million people, or one in nine, suffer from the effects of hunger. The second report on the state of food and agriculture, which primarily focuses on lessening food loss and waste, expressed a growing concern about malnutrition and its consequences, including obesity.

World Food Day was also celebrated during the meetings on 16^th October and three heads of Rome-based UN Organisations, Italian governmental representatives and a UN special rep on human rights were present. Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, whose field of study includes analysing the challenges of the least developed Sub-Saharan African countries in relation to food, was an honoured guest.

The President of the Italian Council, Guiseppe Conte, made clear that his nation would be extremely interested in hosting the 2021 World Food Summit, a meeting meant to rally the international community around the challenge of creating a world with zero hunger.

Monaco is currently and actively involved in the fight against hunger as part of its general participation policy. This year alone, the Principality has donated more than €2.6 million in food security and child nutrition programmes in places where the people are particularly vulnerable, mostly African countries, and will continue to show support where needed.

 

Photo: Martine Garcia-Mascarenhas, Elmilie Larese-Silvestre, Robert Fillion.  DR