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A. Election of 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 Chairman and Vice-Chairmen of the conference
13. The Council had nominated and the Conference elected Faisal Abdul Razzak Al-Khaled (Kuwait) as Chairman of the Twenty-fourth Session of the Conference.
14. The Conference approved the appointment of the three Vice-Chairmen of the Conference recommended by the Nominations Committee, as follows:
B. Appointment of the general committee and the credentials committee
15. The Nominations Committee recommended and the Conference approved the following appointments:
Members of the General Committee
| Belgium | New Zealand |
| Brazil | Nicaragua |
| China | United States of America |
| Kenya |
Members of the Credentials Committee
| Canada | Samoa |
| Cyprus | Spain |
| El Salvador | United Kingdom |
| Lebanon | Zaire |
| Pakistan |
16. 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
Resolutions committee of the conference
Right of reply
Verbatim records
Verification of credentials
Voting rights
Informal meeting of observers from international non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
17. The Conference adopted the arrangements and Timetable proposed by the Ninety-second Session of the Council, as amended by the General Committee.
Establishment of commissions and appointment of their Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen
18. 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.
19. In accordance with Rule VII-I and Rule XXIV-5(b) of the General Rules of the Organization (GRO), the Ninety-second Session of the Council had nominated the following Chairmen of the Commissions:
20. 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:
S.G. Obimpeh (Ghana)
I. Diaz Yubero (Spain)
Vice-Chairmen of Commission II:
B. El Mabrouk Said (Libya)
H. Sucre (Panama)
T. Iskit (Turkey)
Vice-Chairmen of Commission III:
M. Mazlan Jusoh (Malaysia)
V. P. Komiti (Samoa)
Resolutions committee of the conference
21. The Conference endorsed the recommendation of the Ninety-first Session of the Council to establish a Resolutions Committee of seven members, one from each FAO region, and appointed the following: Angola, Australia, Lebanon, Sweden, Thailand, United States of America and Venezuela.
22. The Conference agreed to the recommendation of the General Committee that the Resolutions Committee should be chaired by the current Chairman of the Finance Committee, in order to have the full benefit of his experience.
23. The Conference approved the functions of the Resolutions Committee and the criteria for the formulation of resolutions, as given in document C 87/12, Appendix D.
24. The Conference confirmed the decision taken at its ten previous sessions to the effect that, when a member wished to reply to criticisms 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 speak.
25. As provided for in 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 could be inserted in the verbatim records when time did not permit them to be deliverd, taking into consideration, however, the conditions laid down by the General Committee.
26. The credentials of delegations of 155 Member Nations were found valid. Three Member Nations did not send a delegation to the Conference.
27. The credentials of the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to FAO and of the Observer from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Sovereign Order of Malta were found valid.
28. The names of the representatives of the international organizations attending the Conference, including the United Nations and Specialized Agencies were duly deposited as prescribed under Rule III-2 GRO.
29. 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 those Member Nations submitted to the Director-General a plan for liquidation of their arrears, and the Conference decided to permit them to vote after having adopted resolutions permitting the liquidation of their arrears over a period of ten years. The Conference noted that the Director-General had been in contact with representatives of the other three Member Nations (Democratic Kampuchea, Paraguay and Romania) and found that for various reasons they were unable to regularize their positions with regard to the outstanding arrears due to the Organization. Upon the formal requests by Paraguay and Romania to be authorized to vote during the Twenty-fourth Session, the Conference agreed to exceptionally restore voting rights to them, as well as to Democratic Kampuchea, to vote on Monday 9 November.
Informal meeting of observers from international non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
30. The Ninety-second Session of the Council had suggested that, as was the practice at previous sessions of the Conference, an informal meeting of representatives of international non-governmental organizations admitted as observers to the Twenty-fourth Session of the Conference should be convened on
Tuesday 10 November. The Conference accepted this proposal. The meeting eleceted Mrs Margaret Loseby (International Association of Agricultural Economists) as Chairman, and the report of its deleberations was communicated to the Conference.
Observer from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Liberation movements
Intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations
Observer from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
31. The Conference confirmed the invitation sent by the Director-General to the Government of the USSR to attend the session in an observer capacity.
32. The Conference approved the invitations issued by the Director-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and those African Liberation Movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity to attend the session as observers.
Intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations
33. 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 those organizations to participate in the activities of the Conference as observers.
34. The Conference concurred with the recommendation of the General Committee that, in accordance with Rule XVII-3 GRO, the Associated Country Women of the World, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the International Cooperative Alliance, the International Federation of Agricultural Producers, the World Confederation of Labour and the World Federation of Trade Unions should be granted speaking time to address the Plenary.
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