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A. Election of the chairman and vice-chairmen
of the conference
B. Appointment of the general committee and
the credentials committee
C.
Adoption of the agenda
D. Arrangements for the session and
allocation of agenda items
E.
Admission of observers
A. Election of the chairman and vice-chairmen of the conference
8. The Council had nominated, and the Conference elected Jorge Rubén Aguado (Argentina) as Chairman of the Twenty-first Session of the Conference.
9. The Nominations Committee recommended, and the Conference approved the following appointments:
Vice-Chairmen of the Conference
Claude Batault (France)
Edward L. Senanayake (Sri Lanka)
Amer Mahdi Saleh Khashaly (Iraq)
B. Appointment of the general committee and the credentials committee
10. The Nominations Committee recommended, and the Conference approved the following appointments:
Members of the General Committee
China
Romania
Colombia
Tunisia
Kuwait
United States of America
Nigeria
Members of the Credentials Committee
Angola
Malaysia
Bangladesh
Switzerland
Czechoslovakia
Syria
Dominican Republic
United States of America
Ghana
11. The Conference adopted its Agenda as amended by the General Committee, and as given in Appendix A to this report.
D. Arrangements for the session and allocation of agenda items
Establishment of Commissions and Appointment of their Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen
Attendance during general discussion
Resolutions committee of the conference
Right of reply
Verbatim records
Verification of credentials
Voting rights
Informal meeting of international non-governmental organizations
12. The Conference adopted the arrangements and timetable proposed by the Seventy-ninth Session of the Council, as amended by the General Committee.
Establishment of Commissions and Appointment of their Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen
13. The Conference concurred with the Council's recommendations to establish three Commissions to consider and report upon Parts I, II and III of the Agenda,
14. In accordance with Rule VII-1 and XXIV-5(b) of the General Rules of the ORGANIZATION (GRO), the Eightieth Session of the Council had nominated the following Chairmen of the Commissions:
| Commission I: | Joseph Tchicaya (Congo) |
| Commission II: | Robert Steiner (Austria) |
| Commission III: | Saeed Ahmed Qureshi (Pakistan) |
15. the Conference appointed the foregoing officers and, taking
into consideration the proposals of the General Committee, in
accordance with Rule XIII-2 (GRO), also appointed:
| Vice-Chairmen of Commission I: | G. Stuyck (Belgium) D. Noel (Grenada) |
| Vice-Chairmen of Commission II: | A.A. Khalil (Sudan) N. Mapela (Zaire) |
| Vice-Chairmen of Commission III: | T.J. Kelly (Australia) C. Muszalski (Poland) |
Attendance during general discussion
16. The Conference also approved the recommendation of the Seventy-eighth Session of the Council that the office of the Rapporteur from Plenary to Commission I be discontinued. The Conference furthermore asked that Heads of Delegations ensure they have at least one member of their respective delegation present in Plenary throughout the General Discussion.
Resolutions committee of the conference
17. The Conference endorsed the recommendation of the Seventy-ninth Council Session to establish a Resolutions Committee composed of seven members, one from each FAO, region, and appointed the following:
| Africa | Benin |
| Asia | India |
| Europe | Norway |
| Latin America | Mexico |
| Near East | Libya |
| North America | Canada |
| Southwest Pacific | New Zealand |
18. The Conference agreed to the recommendation of the General
Committee that the Resolutions Committee be chaired by the
current Chairman of the Programme Committee, in order to have the
full benefit of his experience.
19. The Conference approved the functions of the Resolutions Committee and the criteria for the formulation of resolutions, as set out in document C 81/12, Appendix D.
20. The Conference confirmed the decision taken at its previous seven sessions to the effect that, when a delegate wishes to reply to criticism of his Government's policy, he should preferably do so on the afternoon of the day on which such criticism had been voiced, after all those wishing to participate in the discussion had had an opportunity to do so.
21. According to Rule XVIII GRO, verbatim records were kept of all Conference Plenary and Commission meetings. The Conference endorsed the recommendation of the General Committee that statements might be inserted in the verbatim records when time did not permit them to be delivered, taking however into consideration the conditions laid down by the General Committee.
22. The credentials of delegations of 145 Member Nations were found valid. Seven Member Nation. did not send a delegation to the Conference.
23. The credentials of the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to FAO and those of the Palestine Liberation Organization were found valid.
24. The names of the representatives of the international organizations attending the Conference, including the United Nations and Specialized Agencies were duly deposited as prescribed by Rule III-2 GRO.
25. The Conference noted that, in accordance with Article III.4 of the Constitution, five Member Nations, at the beginning of the Session, had no right to vote in the Conference as the amount of their arrears of contributions to the (ORGANIZATION exceeded the amount of the contributions due from them for the two preceding calendar years. Subsequently two of these Member Nations regularized their positions.
Informal meeting of international non-governmental organizations
26. The Eightieth Council Session had nominated Michel Cépède, President of the French National Committee for the FFHC, to chair the informal meeting of representatives of international non-governmental organizations admitted as observers to the Twenty-first Session of the Conference. The meeting was convened on Tuesday 10 November. The report on its deliberations was communicated to the Conference.
27. As was customary, the Director-General had provisionally invited the applicants for membership (Bhutan, Equatorial Guinea, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tonga and Zimbabwe) to be represented by observers until their admission to the Organization had been decided upon. The Conference approved the Director-General's action.
28. The Conference approved the invitations issued by the Director-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and those African Liberation Movements recognized by OAU to attend the session in an observer capacity.
Intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations
29. The Conference approved the list of international organizations to which the Director-General had extended a provisional invitation to the Conference session, and invited the representatives of these organizations to participate in the activities of the Conference in an observer capacity.
30. The Conference concurred with the recommendation of the General Committee that, in accordance with Rule XVII-3 GRO, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) address Plenary.
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