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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 nominated, and the Conference elected M. Rouhani (Iran) as Chairman of the Eighteenth Session of the Conference.
9. The Nominations Committee recommended, and the Conference approved the following appointments:
Vice-Chairmen of the Conference |
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A. Denguet | (Congo) |
R. Hoyos Rubio | (Peru) |
L. Velay | (France) |
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 |
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China | Czechoslovakia | Guinea | United States of America |
Costa Rica | Egypt | Indonesia |
Members of the Credentials Committee |
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Burma | Hungary | Philippines |
Fiji | Italy | Saudi Arabia |
Haiti | Madagascar | Tanzania |
11. The Conference adopted the Agenda 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 ant vice-chairmen
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 Sixty-Sixth Session of the Council, as amended by the General Committee.
Establishment of commissions and appointment of their chairmen ant vice-chairmen
13. The Conference concurred with the Council's recommendation to establish three Commissions to consider and report upon Parts I, II and III of the Agenda.
14. In accordance with Rules VII.1 and XXIV-5(b) of the General Rules of the Organization (GRO), the Sixty-Seventh Session of the Council had nominated the following Chairmen of the Commissions:
Commission I: | F.J. Specks (Germany, Fed. Rep. of) |
Commission II: | G.C.L. Joneja (India) |
Commission III: | F. Alvarez Yépez (Venezuela) |
15. The Conference appointed the foregoing officers and, taking
into consideration the proposals of the General Committee, in
accordance with Rule XIII-2GRO also appointed:
Vice-Chairmen of Commission I: | A.J. da Silva (Guinea-Bissau) |
K. Shams (Bangladesh) | |
A. Vasconcellos (Brazil) | |
Vice-Chairmen of Commission II: | J. Kafurera (Burundi) |
C. Nagata (Japan) | |
M. Trkulja (Yugoslavia) | |
Vice-Chairmen of Commission III : | A.W.M. Al-Dahiri (Iraq) |
A. Çoban (Turkey) | |
M. Jarraya (Tunisia) |
16. The Conference agreed with the recommendation of the
Sixty-Sixth Session of the Council that it appoint a Rapporteur
from Plenary to Commission I, to inform the Commission of the
salient points made by Ministers and heads of delegation in their
general statements. On the recommendation of the General
Committee, it appointed E.O. Bayagbona (Nigeria) as Rapporteur
from Plenary to Commission I.
Resolutions committee of the conference
17. The Conference endorsed the recommendation of the Sixty-Sixth Council Session to establish a Resolutions Committee composed of seven members one from each FAO Region, and appointed the following:
Africa: | Senegal |
Asia and the Far East: | Malaysia |
Europe: | Spain |
Latin America: | Colombia |
Near East: | Jordan |
North America: | United States of America |
South-West Pacific: | Australia |
18. The Conference agreed to the recommendation of the General
Committee that the Resolutions Committee should elect a chairman
from among its own members.
19. The Conference approved the functions of the Resolutions Committee and the criteria for the formulation of resolutions, as set out in document C 75/12 Appendix D.
20. The Conference confirmed the decision taken at its four previous sessions to the effect that, when a delegate wished 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
22. The credentials of delegations of 134 Member Nations were found valid. Two Member Nations did not send a delegation to the Conference.
23. The credentials of the Permanent Observer to FAO of the Holy See were found valid.
24. The names of the representatives of the International Organizations attending the Conference, including tile United Nations and Specialized Agencies, were duly deposited as prescribed by Rule III-2 GRO.
25. The Conference noted that two Member Nations which were in arrears in the payment of their financial contributions to the Organization would have had no vote in the Conference as the amount of the arrears equalled or exceeded the amount of the contributions due from them for the two preceding calendar years. The Conference nevertheless decided to permit these Member Nations to vote in accordance with Article III-4 of the Constitution, after having adopted two resolutions permitting the liquidation of their arrears over a period of ten years.
Informal meeting of international non-governmental organizations
26. The Sixty-Seventh Session of the Council had nominated Mrs. Jaya Arunachalam (IFAP) to chair the informal meeting of representatives of international non-governmental organizations admitted as observers to the Eighteenth Session of the Conference which was convened on Tuesday 11 November 1975.
Applicants for membership
Liberation movements
Intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations
27. As was customary, the Director-General had provisionally invited the applicants for membership (Bahamas, Cape Verde, Grenada and Papua New Guinea) 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 invitation issued by the Director-General, through the OAU, to African Liberation Movements to attend the Session.
29. The Conference also approved the request by the Palestine Liberation Organization to attend the Session in an observer capacity.
Intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations
30. 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.
31. The Conference concurred with the recommendation of the General Committee, that, in accordance with Rule XVII-3 GRO, two international non-governmental organizations having consultative status with FAO (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and World Federation of Trade Unions) address Plenary. It also concurred with the recommendation of the General Committee that two international non-governmental organizations having specialized consultative status with FAO. (International Planned Parenthood Federation and World Federation of Agricultural Workers) be authorized to address the relevant Commissions.
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