Local Development Minister Adel Labib and Agriculture Minister Salah Hilal left here on Saturday for Italy on a three-day visit to attend meetings of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The meetings aim at completing discussions of the Millennium Development Goals in the field of fighting hunger.

Some 130 ministers, 12 heads of state or government, and numerous other high-level government representatives will be attending the 39th session of FAO's governing conference on June 6-13.