57. In compliance with Article IV-1 of its Rules of Procedure, the Committee normally meets every two years. The next session will therefore be held in 1996. The Committee took note of the statement of the Italian delegation expressing its country's interest in hosting the next session. In accordance with the provisions of Article IV-2 of the Committee's Rules of Procedure, the dates and place of the seventeenth session will be decided by the Director-General of FAO in consultation with the Chairman of the Committee.
58. The Committee adopted the draft report placed before it, subject to certain amendments that have been included in the present text.
59. In application of Article Il-1 of its Rules of Procedure, the Committee appointed the following officers:
Chairman: Savvas Theophanous (Cyprus)
Vice-Chairmen: Paolo Vicentini (Italy)
Hassan Osman Abdel Nour (Sudan)
Driss Ben Bahtane (Morocco)
60. At the closing ceremony, Mr. L. Peonides, Director of Forests of the Republic of Cyprus, thanked FAO and the Committee, on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forest Resources and the Environment and of all the foresters of his country, for having organized the sixteenth session of the Committee in Larnaca.
