ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML xmlns:asp><HEAD> <TITLE>TPLF will work closely with public, government to ensure food security:Meles</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Visual Basic .NET 7.1" name=CODE_LANGUAGE> <META content=JavaScript name=vs_defaultClientScript> <META content=http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5 name=vs_targetSchema><LINK href="../../../../Style/ENA.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet ><LINK href="../../../../../vg.css" type=text/css rel=STYLESHEET ></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout"> <P> &nbsp;</P> <TABLE id=Table1 style="Z-INDEX: 102; LEFT: 8px; WIDTH: 984px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 8px; HEIGHT: 24px" cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width=984 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="WIDTH: 976px" vAlign=middle align=center> <P style="text-align: left"> <img src="../../../../Images/Logo.gif" /> &nbsp;&nbsp; <IMG src="../../../../Images/ENALogo.gif" ></P></TD> <TD vAlign=middle align=center> <P>&nbsp;</P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD style="WIDTH: 976px" vAlign="middle" align="center" bgColor="#cc3399" colSpan="1" rowSpan="1"></TD> <TD vAlign="middle" align="center"></TD> </TR></TBODY></TABLE> <br /> <br /> <table> <tr> <td style="width: 622px" valign="top"> <TABLE id=Table2 style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; Z-INDEX: 103; LEFT: 11px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; TOP: 97px;" cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgray 1px solid; width: 588px; height: 1px;" vAlign=bottom align=center bgColor=white> <SPAN id=lblHeading style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: larger; WIDTH: 580px; COLOR: royalblue; FONT-FAMILY: Visual Geez Unicode; HEIGHT: 24px; line-height: normal;" >TPLF will work closely with public, government to ensure food security:Meles</SPAN></TD></TR> <TR style="PADDING-RIGHT: 12px; PADDING-LEFT: 12px; LEFT: 20px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; MARGIN-LEFT: 6px; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; PADDING-TOP: 12px"> <TD style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Visual Geez Unicode; HEIGHT: 17px; width: 588px; background-color: ghostwhite;" vAlign=top align=left bgColor=#f8f8ff> <span style="font-size: 10pt">Mekele, September 8, 2010 (Mekele) - Chairperson of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and also the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) Meles Zenawi said TPLF will work in collaboration with the public and the government to ensure sustainable food security in Tigray region during the next five years.<p>Participants of the ongoing 10th regular session of TPLF on Tuesday discussed on reports of the Central Committee of the Front.<p>Responding to questions posed on the occasion TPLF/EPRDF Chairperson, Meles Zenawi said though development forces registered good results in the agriculture and natural resource development sector in rural parts of the region still there is more to be done.<p>Meles said utmost efforts will be exerted to further strengthen development activities in urban areas during the coming five years. <p>He said TPLF will work in collaboration with the public towards implementation of the five-year development and transformation plan in rural and urban parts of the region so as to ensure sustainable development in all sectors.<p>Meles said activities will be carried out to build capacity of professionals at all levels.<p> Irrigation development being carried out by farmers in the region through harnessing rivers and also using ground and surface water significantly contributed towards development, he said, adding, ongoing efforts to further expand best practices will further be strengthened.<p>Meles said encouraging activities were carried out in natural resource conservation and basin development sectors. Efforts will be intensified to ensure food security through forest, fodder and horticulture development as well as apiary and animal husbandry.<p>He said job opportunities will be created for youth and women while expansion of micro and small-scale enterprises will be carried out towards the same goal.<p>Expansion of infrastructure development such as telephone and electric power services and road facilities will be undertaken while education service coverage will be increased to 100 per cent, among others.<p>TPLF will strengthen its activities more than ever to speed up development, maintain peace and good governance during the next five years in collaboration with the public in the region, Meles said.<p>T 6:50-7:05PM<p>E__7:05-7:10PM<p><p>---END---<p></span></TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> </td> <td style="width: 657px; font-size: 12pt;" valign="top"> <table> <tr> <td style="width: 366px"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 366px; background-color: cornflowerblue; text-align: center; height: 4px;"> <strong><span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Trebuchet MS">Headlines</span></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: smaller; width: 366px; font-family: 'Visual Geez Unicode'"> <img src="../../../../Images/grn_arrow.gif"" /><a href="121038.htm">TPLF will work closely with public, government to ensure food security:Meles</a><br /> <img src="../../../../Images/grn_arrow.gif"" /><a href="121037.htm">College graduates 848 students with diplomas </a><br /> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-align: center;" colspan="2"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #006699; font-family: Trebuchet MS"><strong>(c) The Ethiopian News Agency</strong></span></td> </tr> </table> </BODY></HTML>