Assistance programs covered will include agriculture and food support, economic and market development, trade promotion and development, education and training, health care, housing, energy, environment, transportation, media, political and legal reform, and local and regional government programs. Maurice Cook, US Dept of Commerce, Bureau of Export Administration, 14th and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20230, tel. The 2020 Vision initiative seeks to identify solutions for meeting future world food needs while reducing poverty and protecting the environment. The initiative will convene an international conference in June of 1995 to set priorities for meeting the world's food needs by the year 2020 and beyond. The 2020 Newsletter will be distributed bimonthly.
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The next three messages are agriculture-related pieces sent to the Friends and Partners Listserv, which is run out of Knoxville Tennessee and Pushchino, Russia. For the last five years we tried to find a serious business partners who would represent our company's interests in CIS and Baltics. For some reason it seems that it is very hard to find businesses who are willing to work in order to establish a long term relationship instead of trying to hit a home run. There must be some companies that have a knowledge of trade and would be interested in future growth of their companies. If anyone can give us some recommendations or forward our company's information to serious people, your help would be greatly appreciated.