REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

CL 88/REP

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

Eighty-eighth Session Rome, 4-7 November 1985

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ROME 1985

COUNCIL
(as from 1 January 1985)

Independent Chairman: M.S. Swaminathan

Afghanistan***
Argentina*
Australia***
Austria**
Bangladesh*
Benin*
Brazil**
Bulgaria**
Canada**
China*
Colombia**
Congo**
Cuba**
Cyprus*
Czechoslovakia**
Denmark***

Ecuador***
Egypt***
France***
Germany, Federal' Republic of*
India***
Indonesia*
Iraq*
Italy***
Japan*
Lebanon**
Liberia***1
Malawi*
Malaysia*
Mexico*
Pakistan***
Panama*
Philippines***

Rwanda*
Sao Tome and Principe**
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of***
Senegal***
Sierra Leone**1
Spain*
Tanzania***
Thailand*
Trinidad and Tobago***
Tunisia**
Uganda**
United Kingdom***
United States of America**
Venezuela*
Yemen, People's Democratic**
Republic of**
Zimbabwe***

^* Term of office until conclusion of Twenty-third Session of the Conference, November 1985

^** Term of office until 31 December 1986

^*** Term of office until conclusion of Twenty-fourth Session of the Conference, November 1987

¹ Deemed to have resigned (1 January 1985) in accordance with Rule XXII-7 of the General Rules of the Organization.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF DECISIONS, DIRECTIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COUNCIL

INTRODUCTION

Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable

Election of three Vice-Chairmen, and Designation of the Chairman and Members of the Drafting Committee

ACTIVITIES OF FAO AND WFP

Preparations for the Twenty-third Session of FAO Conference

– Nomination of the Chairman of the Conference and of the Chairmen of the Commissions of the Conference

– Election of the Nominations Committee

– Increase in the Number of Vice-Chairmen of the Conference

– Fourteenth McDougall Memorial Lecture

Report of the Fifty-fifth Session of the Committee on Commodity Problems (Rome, 21-25 October 1985)

Follow-up of Conference Resolutions 8/83 and 9/83 -Plant Genetic Resources

Code of Conduct on Distribution and Use of Pesticides

Recent Developments in the United Nations System of Interest to FAO

Evaluation of the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP)

World Food Programme (WFP): Proposed Pledging Target for 1987-88 (Resolution 1/88 and Draft Resolution for the Conference)

Action Arising out of the Ninth World Forestry Congress (Mexico City, July 1985)

PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

Programme of Work and Budget 1986-87 and Medium-Term Objectives

Review of the Regular Programme 1984-85

Review of the Field Programmes 1984-85

Financial Position of the Organization

– Status of Contributions to the Budget

– Current Assessments

– Contributions in Arrears

– Voting Right Problems

– Delayed Payment of Assessed Contributions

Reports of the Forty-ninth Session of the Programme Committee, the Fifty-sixth Session of the Finance Committee, and their Joint Session (Rome, 16-26 September 1985)

– Emoluments of the Director-General (Draft Resolution for the Conference)

– Appointment of the External Auditor (Resolution 2/88)

– Headquarters Accommodation

– FAO's Immunity from Legal Process in Italy

Second Report on Unscheduled and Cancelled Sessions in the 1984-85 Biennium

CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS

Report of the Forty-seventh Session of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters (Rome, 14 and 15 October 1985)

– Reimbursement of Travel Expenses of Council Members (Rule XXV-6 GRO) (Draft Resolution for the Conference)

Other Constitutional and Legal Matters

– Invitations to International Non-Governmental Organizations which do not have Status with FAO

– Changes in Representation of Member Nations on the Programme Committee

OTHER MATTERS

Date and Place of the Eighty-ninth Session of the Council

APPENDICES