REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

CL 97/REP

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF FAO

Ninety-Sevent Session
Rome, 30 November 1989

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
ROME, 1989

COUNCIL
(until 31 December 1990)

Independent Chairman: Antoine Saintraint

Angola** Germany, Federal Republic of** Mexico***
Argentina** Ghana*** Morocco***
Australia* Greece** Netherlands***
Brazil*** Guinea* Nicaragua**
Cameroon*** India* Nigeria*
Canada*** Indonesia** Pakistan*
China** Iraq,Islamic Republic of* Peru*
Colombia*** Iraq** Philippines*
Congo** Italy* Poland***
Cuba*** Japan** Portugal***
Czechoslovakia** Kenya* Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of*
Egypt* Korea, Republic of** Thailand**
Ethiopia** Lebanon*** Trinidad and Tobago***
Finland* Lesotho* United Kingdom*
France* Libya*** United States of America***
Gabon*** Madagascar*** Venezuela**
Malaysia**

* Term of office until 31 December 1990.

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

*** Term of office until 31 December 1992.

COUNCIL
(as from 1 January 1991)

Independent Chairman: Antoine Saintraint

Angola* France*** Morocco**
Argentina* Gabon** Netherlands**
Australia*** Germany, Federal Republic of* Nicaragua*
Brazil** Ghana** Pakistan***
Cameroon** Greece* Philippines***
Canada** India*** Poland**
Cape Verde*** Indonesia* Portugal**
China* Iraq* Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of***
Colombia** Italy*** Sudan***
Congo* Japan* Sweden***
Costa Rica*** Kenya*** Thailand*
C�te d'lvoire*** Korea, Republic of* Trinidad and Tobago**
Cuba** Lebanon** United Kingdom***
Czechoslovakia* Libya** United States of America**
Egypt*** Madagascar** Venezuela*
Ethiopia* Malaysia* Zambia***
Mexico**

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

** Term of office until 31 December 1992.

*** Term of office until conclusion of the Twenty-seventh Session of the Conference, November 1993.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

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

Adoption of the Agenda

Election of Three Vice-Chairmen

ELECTION OF COMMITTEES

Election of the Chairman and Members of the Programme Committee

Election of the Chairman and Members of the Finance Committee

Election of the Members of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters

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

OTHER MATTERS

Calendar of 1990-91 Sessions of the Council and those Bodies which Report to the Council

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

APPENDICES

A - Agenda for the Ninety-seventh Session of the Council

B - List of Delegates and Observers

C - List of Documents

D - Calendar of 1990-91 Sessions of the Council and of those Bodies which Report to the Council

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE