{"id":65436,"date":"2026-07-01T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=65436"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:33:41","slug":"pakistan-takes-its-seat-for-the-first-time-as-a-permanent-member-of-the-international-olive-council-at-the-123rd-session-held-in-lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-takes-its-seat-for-the-first-time-as-a-permanent-member-of-the-international-olive-council-at-the-123rd-session-held-in-lisbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan takes its seat for the first time as a Permanent Member of the International Olive Council at the 123rd Session held in Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65441\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Pakistan-Portugal-Olive-Council-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Pakistan-Portugal-Olive-Council-web.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Pakistan-Portugal-Olive-Council-web-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>LISBON\/ Portugal : 30 June 2026 &#8211; Federal Minister for National Food Security &amp; Research, Rana Tanveer Hussain, led the Pakistan delegation to attend the UN International Olive Council (IOC) meeting in Lisbon today. The Minister was accompanied by Ambassador of Pakistan to Portugal H.E. Aisha Farooqui.<\/p>\n<p>Following Pakistan\u2019s membership of the International Olive Council in May 2026, Pakistan was invited to take its seat at the 123rd meeting of the Council, together with 27 other Olive oil producing nations.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan was warmly welcomed to the IOC by the Executive Director, the Chairman of IOC and by all the member countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister for National Food Security &amp; Research in his statement thanked the IOC and reaffirmed Pakistan\u2019s commitment to take forward the objectives and goals of the IOC.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister briefed the Council members on Pakistan\u2019s growing Olive sector with over 7 million olive trees cultivated across 55,669 acres and olive clusters expanding across the country.<\/p>\n<p>A complete \u201cfarm-to-fork\u201d value chain has been established through 51 olive oil extraction units, modern processing facilities, nurseries, weather stations, and four IOC-aligned quality laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has also achieved self-sufficiency in producing certified olive saplings domestically. These advances have earned international recognition, including a Silver Award at the New York International Olive Oil Competition (NYIOOC) last year.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan looks forward to play its cooperative and positive role towards sustainable, and climate resilient development of the global olive oil and table olives sector.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"dEz4jMwokD\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-may-2026\/\">Pakistan in the World \u2013 May &#8211; June  2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan in the World \u2013 May &#8211; June  2026&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-may-2026\/embed\/#?secret=OtyhQsX6wg#?secret=dEz4jMwokD\" data-secret=\"dEz4jMwokD\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISBON\/ Portugal : 30 June 2026 &#8211; Federal Minister for National Food Security &amp; Research, Rana Tanveer Hussain, led the Pakistan delegation to attend the UN International Olive Council (IOC) meeting in Lisbon today. The Minister was accompanied by Ambassador of Pakistan to Portugal H.E. Aisha Farooqui. Following Pakistan\u2019s membership of the International Olive Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1799,1177,524,472,1183,488,48,443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65442,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65436\/revisions\/65442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}