11 December 2020 - International Mountain Day celebration: Mountain biodiversity matters. (composite picture from left) Yuka Makino, FAO's Mountain Partnership Secretariat Coordinator; Maria Helena Semedo, FAO Deputy Director-General; Josep Maria Casals, Director of Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Principality of Andorra; Mirgul Moldoisaeva, Permanent Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic to the UN; Andrea Macchioni, Coordinator for the Environment, Directorate General for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy; Tsukasa Hirota, Minister, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Japan in Italy;François Pythoud, Special Envoy for International Sustainable Agriculture, Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG).