1. The ninth session of the Conference1 noted from the Council's report on this subject (C 57/37) that the methods applied in developing cooperation with the United Nations group of organizations were matters that were dealt with by consultations between the heads of the organizations concerned and came to be modified appropriately as circumstances demanded and opportunity arose.
2. Where there was an agreement or an exchange of letters between FAO and another international organization, the well-defined relationship was likely from time to time to be brought into line with changing conditions. The Committee on Commodity Problems kept itself regularly informed of the work of many specialized international non-governmental organizations in the commodity field. Thus methods of developing cooperation with such organizations were automatically under constant scrutiny.
3. In general, the Conference agreed with the Council that so far as intergovernmental organizations were concerned the emphasis should by and large be on a practical exchange of knowledge and ideas, exchange of appropriate selected documents and publications, joint action projects for which the respective organizations were suitably equipped and in which joint action, with appropriate allocation of functions, offered the best solution to the particular problem. The tendency with regard to attendance at meetings should be increasingly to keep participation to technical meetings or at most to meetings where technical policy was made and the question of relations discussed.
1 See paragraphs 488 to 490 of the Report of the ninth session of the Conference.
