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Jacques Diouf, director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General, and Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, from left to right at a press conference concerning the worldwide food crisis, in Bern, Switzerland, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Ban Ki-Moon said he will chair a new UN task force to tackle the crisis provoked by soaring food prices. The task force will bring together the heads of UN specialized agencies, funds and programs, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the UN Secretariat, he said. Ban is attending a two-day meeting with the key UN development agencies that ends today. (KEYSTONE/Peter Schneider)