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President Chandrika Kumaratunga leaves for Rome today to attend the World Food Summit which will be convened by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) from June 10 to 13th. She will be among several heads of state who will address the Summit. The President is also due to meet Pope John-Paul II as well as Italian government leaders.

The FAO Food Summit has a special significance to President Kumaratunga because it was at a similar FAO meeting in 1976 that her mother, the late Sirimavo Bandaranaike, as the then Prime Minister, was awarded the FAO Gold Medal for her contribution to agricultural development, Presidential Secretariat sources said. President Kumaratunga, who was then Director of the Janavasa Commission, received the FAO Silver Medal for her contribution to land re-distribution among the rural poor.

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