REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

CL 96/REP

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

Ninety-sixth Session
Rome, 6-10 November 1989

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ROME
1989

COUNCIL
(as from 1 January 1989)

Independent Chairman: Lassaad Ben Osman

Algeria*

Germany, Federal Republic of***

Mexico*

Angola***

Greece***

Nicaragua***

Argentina***

Guinea***

Nigeria**1

Australia**

Hungary*

Pakistan**

Brazil*

India**

Peru**

Canada*

Indonesia***

Philippines**

China***

Iran, islamic Republic of**

Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of**

Colombia*

Iraq***

Spain*

Congo***

Italy**

Switzerland**

Cuba*

Japan***

Thailand***

Czechoslovakia***

Kenya**

Trinidad and Tobago*

Egypt**

Korea, Republic of***

United Kingdom**

Ethiopia***

Lebanon*

United States of America*

Finland**

Lesotho**

Venezuela***

France**

Libya*

Zaire*

Gabon*

Madagascar*

Gambia*

Malaysia***


* Term of office until conclusion of Twenty-fifth Session of the Conference, November 1989.

**Term of office until 31 December 1990.

***Term of office until conclusion of Twenty-sixth Session of the Conference, November 1991.

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF DECISIONS, DIRECTIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COUNCIL

INTRODUCTION – PROCEDURE OF THE SESSION

Adoption of the Agenda and Timetable

Election of Three Vice–Chairmen, and Designation of the Chairman and Members of the Drafting Committee

Tribute to the Memory of His Excellency McDonald P. Benjamin, Ambassador of Dominica

ACTIVITIES OF FAO

Preparations for the Twenty-fifth Session of the FAO Conference

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

– Election of the Nominations Committee

– Sixteenth McDougall Memorial Lecture

Report of the Fifty-seventh Session of the Committee on Commodity Problems (Rome, 12-16 June 1989)

International Conference on Nutrition

PROGRAMME, BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

Programme of Work and Budget 1990-91 and Medium-Term Objectives

Reports of the Fifty-eighth Session of the Programme Committee; the Sixty-sixth Session of the Finance Committee, and their Joint Session (Rome, 13-29 September 1989):

– Payment of Assessed Contributions (draft resolution to the Conference)

– Financial Position of the Organization

  1. Status of Contributions to the Budget
  2. Current Assessments
  3. Contributions in Arrears
  4. Replenishment of the Special Reserve Account and Advances to the Working Capital Fund
  5. Need for All Member Nations to Pay Contributions
  6. Voting Rights

– Appointment of the External Auditor (Resolution 196)

– Treatment of Profit and Loss on Exchange (draft resolution to the Conference)

– Staff Commissary Support Cost Reimbursement (draft resolution to the Conference)

– Gift by Small Farmers of Indonesia

– Personnel Matters

(a) Statistics of Personnel Services

   (b) Allowance for the Chairman of the Appeals Committee

– Matters Relating to UNDP

Conclusions of the Review of Certain Aspects of FAO's Goals and Operations

Second Report on Unscheduled and Cancelled Sessions in the 1988–89 Biennium

CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS

Report of the Fifty-third Session of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters (Rome, 16-18 October 1989):

– Immunity of the Organization from Legal Process in Italy

– Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident and Convention on Assistance in the case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency: Accession by FAO

European Commission for the Control of Foot–and–Mouth Disease: Amendment to the Constitution (Resolution 296)

Invitations to Non-Member Nations to Attend FAO Sessions

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

Changes in Representation of Member Nations on the Programme and Finance Committees

OTHER MATTERS

Date and Place of the Ninety-seventh Session of the Council

APPENDICES

  1. – Agenda for the Ninety-sixth Session of the Council
  2. – List of Delegates and Observers
  3. – List of Documents
  4. – Assessed Contributions of Member Nations
  5. – Unscheduled and Cancelled Sessions in the 1988–89 Biennium

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