Permanent Mission
The Embassy was closed on 29. April. Please direct all enquiries to the Embassy of Iceland in Paris.
The Permanent Mission of Iceland in Rome represents the Government of Iceland at the United Nations Agencies in Rome; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The Permanent Mission also serves as an Embassy of Iceland to Italy.
FAO
The aim of the FAO is to achieve food security for all humankind. The Organization works for the benefit of all 187 member countries. It is a forum for policy making, information gathering and sharing and technical know-how for this purpose. The FAO is the only world-wide organization dealing directly with fisheries issues and the living resources of the ocean. The Permanent Mission in Rome represents Icelandic interests in the field of fisheries and agriculture at the Organization and fosters development cooperation between Iceland and other countries.
WFP
The Permanent Mission represents Iceland at the World Food Programme (WFP) which brings emergency food aid to people in need and supports social and economic development. The WFP organizes food aid to people suffering from hunger as a result of natural disasters, poverty and armed conflict. The Icelandic Government has supported the relief work of the WFP in various parts of the world.
IFAD
The Permanent Mission also represents Iceland at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The Fund provides loans and grants for development projects in agriculture and fisheries in order to enhance food production in developing countries. The aim of the IFAD is to enable the rural poor, living of agriculture and fisheries, to overcome poverty.
The Permanent Mission is guided by the Ocean Policy, adopted by the Icelandic Government on April 25th 2004, and by the Development Policy for 2005 – 2009, introduced by Mr Davíð Oddsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the Althing on April 29th 2005. The Development Policy rests on the following four pillars:
1) Human resources, equality and economic development,
2) Democracy, human rights and good governance,
3) Peace, security and development,
4) Sustainable development.
