REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

CL 73/REP

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

Seventy-Third Session
Rome, 1 December 1977

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
ROME 1977

COUNCIL
(Until 31 December 1978)

Independent Chairman: Bukar Shaib

Afghanistan3 Ghana1 Mexico3
Algeria3 Greece2 New Zealand1
Argentina2 Guinea-Bissau2 Niger1
Bangladesh2 Hungary3 Pakistan1
Belgium3 India1 Panama2
Brazil3 Indonesia2 Philippines 2
Canada3 Iraq3 Rwanda2
Chad3 Italy1 Sri Lanka1
China2 Jamaica3 Sudan1
Colombia3 Japan2 Tanzania3
Cuba3 Lebanon2 Thailand2
Czechoslovakia2 Liberia3 Uganda2
Ecuador1 Libya1 United Kingdom1
Egypt1 Malawi1 United States of America3
Finland1 Malta3 Venezuela2
France1 Mauritius1 Zaire3
Germany, Fed. Rep. of2

1 Term of office until 31 December 1978.

2 Term of office until conclusion of Twentieth Session of the Conference, November 1979.

3 Term of office until 31 December 1980.

COUNCIL
(as from 1 January 1979)

Independent Chairman: Bukar Shaib

Seats talling vacant at
the conclusion of the
Twentieth Session of the
Conference, November 1979
Seats talling vacant on 31 December 1980 Seats talling vacant at the conclusion of the
Twenty-First Session of the Conference, November 1981
Argentina Afghanistan Australia
Bangladesh Algeria Botswana
China Belgium Egypt
Czechoslovakia Brazil El Salvador
Germany,.Fed. Rep. of Canada France
Greece Chad Ghana
Guinea-Bissau Colombia India
Indonesia Cuba Italy
Japan Hungary Kuwait
Lebanon Iraq Madagascar
Panama Jamaica Pakistan
Philippines Liberia Saudi Arabia
Rwanda Malta Senegal
Thailand Mexico Sri Lanka
Uganda Tanzania Sweden
Venezuela United States of America United Kingdom
Zaire

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Adoption of Agenda

Election of Vice�Chairmen

Tribute to Roy I. Jackson

ELECTION OP COMMITTEES

Election of Chairman and Members of the Programme Committee

Election of Chairman and Members of the Finance Committee

Election of Members of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

Election of Five Members of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes

OTHER MATTERS

Calendar of 1978�79 Sessions of the Council and those Bodies which Report to the Council

Appointment of the Deputy Director�General

Matters arising out of the Nineteenth Session of the Conference

Use of Languages

International Plant Protection Convention

United Nations Centre for World Agriculture

Telegramme to W.A.F. Grabisch

Date and Place of the Seventy-Fourth Session of the Council

APPENDICES

A – Agenda for the Seventy-Third Session of the Council

B – List of Delegates and Observers

C – List of Documents

D – Calendar of 1978�79 Sessions of the Council and those Bodies which Report to the Council

COMMITTIES