ROME -- Eric Hiberlink, Dutch Counsellor and deputy head of mission to the FAO, Stefanos Fotiou, Director of the FAO office of Sustainable Development Goals, Ilje Betlem, FAO chief for elections, Chimimba David Phiri, the FAO Special Adviser to the Assistant DirectorGeneral for Regional Office for Africa and senior executives of the WFP, FAO, IFAD and UNESCO are among NGO senior managers, UN agency executives and diplomats who have failed to upgrade their subscriptions to the Italian Insider's modest diplomatic\institutional subscription rate despite repeated requests to pay the correct fee, the newspaper's subscription department says.

 The FAO Representative in Mongolia Vinod Ahuja ignored repeated requests to pay his subscription at the correct rate as did H.E. Nolasco and Maria Turco, a security specialist at the World Ban .  Also ignoring the request to subscribe at the correct rate were Advit Nath, director and controller of IFAD 'responsible for integrity and transparency in accounting' and Benoit Thierry, IFAD rep. for Senegal and director for West Africa. Another recalcitrant non payer is Mawira Chitima, an IFAD country director and head of the SSTC and Knowledge Centre at the UN agency.

 Also not paying at the correct rate despite repeated requests was Cornelia Moussa, HR director at IDLO and Roland Kassab, FAO Head of Operations in Nairobi. Diplomats from Switzerland, Romania and China also are among envoys who have failed to upgrade their subscriptions to Italian Insider’s modest diplomatic subscription rate despite repeated requests to pay the correct fee, the newspaper's subscription department says.

 Romanian emissary Vlad Mustaciosu from Bucharest’s embassy to the FAO, and Shen Hong, a second secretary in the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs in Beijing, are among those who have so far ignored requests to pay the correct rate, the department added. Belgium’s ambassador to the FAO also has failed to respond to repeated requests to renew at the correct rate.

 A number of diplomats and Embassies in the Eternal City are turning a deaf ear to requests to pay the Italian Insider diplomatic subscription rate while others have paid the correct amount for access to specialized articles on the UN Food agencies and other exclusive material on the digital newspaper, Insider sources say. Details of our subscription prices are at the following link:

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 An earlier version of this article mentioned, by mistake, the Embassy of Portugal in Rome. To the Embassy and people concerned our deep apologies.

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