CHAIRMAN: The first item on our Agenda this morning is a Draft Resolution together with revised General Regulations for the World Food Programme. The Resolutions and the revised Regulations were examined and endorsed by the World Food Programme's Committee on Food Aid and by the FAO Council in its Session last June. A similar Resolution and the revised Regulations were also approved by the UN Economic and Social Council in June. The UN General Assembly is expected to consider this matter soon after we complete our work here in the FAO.
I will call Mr Gerald Moore to introduce the Resolution and the revised Regulations. I should also like to present Mr Namanga Ngongi, the Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme, to answer any questions which Mr Moore cannot answer.
LEGAL COUNSEL: The document for this item is C 95/23: a revised version of the draft Conference Resolution prepared by the Resolutions Committee is also set out in C 95/LIM/29. The item is before the Conference for decision.
The matter now before you has a long legislative history, to which you, Mr Chairman, have referred. The Conference will recall that in December 1993 the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 48/162, which decided on the transformation of the governing bodies of the UN programmes and funds responsible for operational activities in the development sector, such as UNDP, UNFPA and UNICEF, into Executive Boards with 36 members each, and also on the strengthening of the policy role of ECOSOC with regard to the governance of those programmes and funds.
The decision of the UN General Assembly applied also to the WFP but, in view of the joint parentage of the UN and FAO over the WFP, paragraph 30 of the Resolution called for consultations to be undertaken as soon as possible between the UN and FAO with a view to the preparation of parallel Resolutions for adoption by the General Assembly and the FAO Conference.
The matter of the implementation of General Assembly Resolution 48/162 was taken up by the Thirty-seventh Session of the CFA in May 1994. At that session, the CFA decided to set up an open-ended Working Group to revise the General Regulations of WFP to implement General Resolution 48/162 and at the same time to implement General Assembly Resolution 47/199 dealing with the introduction of a country-based programme approach, as opposed to the present project-based approach on which WFP functions. The Working Group was assisted by the Legal Counsels of the UN and FAO.
The report and recommendations of the Working Group, including a series of proposed amendments to the General Regulations of WFP giving effect to General Assembly Resolutions 48/162 and 47/199, together with draft parallel Resolutions for adoption by the UN General Assembly and the FAO Conference, were approved by the Thirty-eighth Session of the CFA in December 1994. CFA asked for the text of the revised General Regulations and the draft parallel Resolutions to be submitted to the FAO Conference and the UN General Assembly through the FAO Council and the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
The revised General Regulations and the draft parallel Resolutions were considered first by ECOSOC in June in 1995 and approved by that body. They were then submitted to and endorsed by the 108th Session of the FAO Council in June 1995.
As I have already mentioned, the main import of the revised General Regulations and the proposed Conference Resolutions, as mandated by the General Assembly Resolutions, is to reconstitute the CFA as an Executive Board, to reduce the number of members to 36, to adopt a certain distribution of seats for an interim period of four years, to revise the functions of the new Executive Board to bring it into line with the other Executive Boards and the policy guidance role of ECOSOC and the FAO Council, as well as to make general reference in the revised General Regulations to the new country-based programme approach.
The revised General Regulations and Draft Resolution are now submitted to the Conference for formal adoption. Meanwhile, a parallel Resolution is being submitted to the UN General Assembly as the other joint parent of the WFP for its consideration and adoption early next week. The UN parallel Resolution has already been adopted by the Second Committee of the General Assembly on 13 October 1995.
I should also point out that our Resolutions Committee has taken account of some additional editorial amendments introduced by the United Nations to the Draft Resolutions and these are now included in the final version of the Draft Resolution as set out in document C 94/LIM/29. They are purely editorial revisions.
The Conference is invited to approve the revised General Regulations of the WFP and to adopt the Draft Resolution reconstituting CFA as the Executive Board of the World Food Programme.
CHAIRMAN: Many nations represented in this room today have worked long and hard to achieve the agreements we now have before us. Like much of our work, it represents a compromise which has been adopted by consensus in every forum where it has been approved. I anticipate the same action this morning and, as we have already considered and adopted these measures several times in our earlier meetings, I hope that our formal adoption can be accomplished quickly. A proposal to endorse en bloc is certainly in order.
The floor is now open for discussion and to open the debate I will call on one of the delegates who has worked longest and hardest for this achievement - the Chairman of the Committee on Food Aid, Mr John Bailey of Australia.
John Anthony BAILEY (Australia): Thank you, Mr Chairman. Australia is a very strong supporter of the General Assembly Resolution 48/162 and Resolution 47/199 and is very happy that the Member States of the World Food Programme have been able to come to agreement, together with FAO Council and the Economic and Social Committee of the UN, in agreeing the implementation of these Resolutions by the World Food Programme. We would therefore like to propose, Mr Chairman, that this Commission adopt this Resolution en bloc.
Kiho YOON (Korea, Republic of): Thank you, Mr Chairman. I would like to make some comments on behalf of the Asia Group just to clarify the electoral process to be carried out by the FAO Council.
In Document C 95/23, Appendix A, paragraph 4 c) and additional paragraph 4 f) it shall be normally read as follows: "Three Members from the States in the List C, one for a term of three years, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of one year". And the new paragraph f) that we made reads as follows: "One additional Member for a term of two years, alternating between the States included in Lists B and C, starting with C". In this way we propose to attach to the Resolution the Appendix contained in the FAO Council Document providing same details as mentioned above.
Mohamed Said M.A. HARBI (Sudan) (Original language Arabic): In the name of God the Compassionate, I would like to thank you, Mr Chairman. I would agree with the speakers who have spoken before me and said that this should become an Executive Board and that we should revise the General Regulations of the World Food Programme. I would agree with all that. We also worked in the Working Groups in past months and made a contribution to perfect this new approach to WFP's Work and Assistance Programmes for needy countries. I would like to thank you, Sir, and congratulate you personally, Sir, on being elected Chairman of this Commission. We are sure that we will be able to do an excellent job under your guidance, Sir, and that of the Vice-Chairman too.
Sra. María E. JIMENEZ DE MOCHI ONORI (El Salvador): Señor Presidente, también nosotros compartimos plenamente la aprobación de este proyecto de resolución; hemos seguido con mucha dedicación los trabajos que en estos años nos han llevado al mismo.
He pedido la palabra para hacerle una pregunta, o mejor dicho una aclaración, y, por su medio, a la Asesoría Legal. En el Apéndice A, en el número 2, se dice: "Decide asimismo que los miembros de la Junta Ejecutiva del Programa Mundial de Alimentos serán elegidos, de forma provisional, por un período de cuatro años..." Como posteriormente tenemos las diferentes elecciones siempre para unos períodos de tres, dos y un año, yo quisiera una explicación sobre cómo se compaginan los períodos para los cuales vamos a elegir y estos cuatro años que se mencionan en el punto 2 del primer Apéndice. Probablemente la Asesoría Legal lo haya explicado en su introducción; lamentablemente acabo de entrar en la sala, ya que he estado en la Plenaria para la votación.
Por otra parte quisiera solicitar, señor Presidente, si es posible escuchar de usted, nuevamente, la propuesta que hizo el delegado de Corea con respecto al párrafo f), ya que mi delegación no la ha entendido muy bien.
LEGAL COUNSEL: Thank you, Mr Chairman. First of all, the proposal from the distinguished delegate of Korea: As I understand it, the intent of this proposal was to bring paragraph 4 more in line with paragraph 2, operative paragraph 2, of the Draft Conference Resolution. It would be, in paragraph 4, sub-paragraph (c), to change the number of "four members from the states included in List C" to "three members of the states included in List C", one for a term of three years, and then one instead of two for a term of two years, and one for a term of one year. This is in paragraph 4, sub-paragraph (c) of the Draft Conference Resolution, which in the English text is on page 3 of the Annex. The proposal would then add a further sub-paragraph (f), which would say, "one additional Member for a term of two years, rotating between the Members Lists B and C, starting with List C". You will note that this really takes up the wording, I believe, from paragraph 2 of the Resolution and paragraph 2 (f) in particular.
Now, may I make a comment and a plea in connection with this suggested change.
The comment is that the original numbers - and this gets very complicated, but I'll try to explain it -the original numbers which were included in paragraph 4, sub-paragraph (c) are meant to take into account the rotating seat. That is why it is "four" members from the states included in List C, one for a term of three years, two for a term of two years (and that is where the rotating seat slides in; it slides in under the "two for the term of two years") and "one for a term of one year".
Now why I would suggest that it may be appropriate to remain with the Draft Resolution as submitted to you, is that we are not here dealing with a question with what happens in the future rotation of the seat between Lists B and C; we are dealing with a question of what should happen in this next Session of the Council, the 110th Session of the Council, which will take place next Friday. And what will happen in the next Session, in order to make it very clear and simple, is we will be asked to already allocate that seat into List C and to start and elect somebody for two years for that seat. We are not talking about rotation; that will come in the future. We are now talking about what will happen at the next Session of the Council, next Friday.
This is why I would suggest that the Resolution as presently drafted is, in fact, clearer because it gives very clear and precise instructions to the Council, at its Session next Friday, on exactly what to do. There is no difference, as I see it, in practice between the import of the amendment suggested by the distinguished delegate of Korea; it is merely a question of form. But I would say that it is, in fact, clearer to give instructions to the Council at the next Session as to exactly how many it should elect and for how many - for which List and for which period of time.
The plea is that this is a parallel Resolution, which has been fully negotiated and which has to also be kept in line with the United Nations Assembly Resolution. If one can avoid making any changes in this Resolution, in the Conference, it will make matters much easier. It will make matters extremely complicated if we now have to change the Resolution and change it also in New York.
The second question is with respect to the question of the interim period of four years. This is a change - the use of the words "on an interim basis for four years" - which was introduced as a result of negotiations in New York and Rome just before the ECOSOC Session last June. The purpose of this was that the whole question of the distribution of seats, not the number of seats but the distribution of seats, should be reviewed after a period of four years. In fact, the review starts after two years and should come into effect after four years. This was a compromise solution that was negotiated, I understand, with some difficulty and at some length to ensure that the whole distribution of seats will be subject to review and will be changed, if necessary, at the end of an interim period of four years.
Now, the fact that you are electing people for three years, etc., will not be affected by this, because, when you have a new distribution of seats, which will come into force, if there is a new distribution, after the interim period of four years, then transitional measures will be taken to ensure that the changed distribution slides in nicely with the staggered election of members. If this means that at that time you will have to have some additional members being elected only for two years instead of three years, this will then be done at that stage. In summary, I think you have to separate the aspect of electing members for periods of one, two, or three years in this Session from the fact that the whole system of distribution of seats will come under review in ECOSOC and the FAO Council after a period of four years. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Dr Moore, for that very clear explanation. I hope that the delegate of Korea now understands the different purposes of paragraph 2 and paragraph 4 - where paragraph 2 establishes the rotation system, paragraph 4 begins the implementation of that process - and that the purpose of his proposal has been taken care of by those two paragraphs.
I would like now to call again the delegate from El Salvador.
Sra. María E. JIMENEZ DE MOCHI ONORI (El Salvador): Gracias señor Presidente. Agradezco mucho las palabras del Dr. Moore que nos ha dejado muy clara la situación.
Quisiera, nada más, darle el apoyo de mi delegación a esta resolución, tal como está aquí, sin ninguna modificación, ya que, como bien explicó el señor Moore, la parte 4 se refiere nada más a las elecciones que tendremos en el 110° período de sesiones, por lo cual, creería que no sería conveniente modificarlo en el sentido propuesto por el delegado de Corea.
CHAIRMAN: I see no other delegation seeking the floor for this item. Given the remarks that we have heard, unless there are other speakers I shall assume that there is unanimous consent to the approval of the Resolution and the change in the General Regulations. We will recommend that to the full Conference. Agenda Item 17 is approved.
CHAIRMAN: We now turn our attention to Conference Agenda Item No. 18, Other Constitutional and Legal Matters. There is one item under this Agenda - a draft revised agreement between the Organization of African Unity and FAO. Again, I would like to call on Dr Moore, Legal Counsel, to introduce this item.
LEGAL COUNSEL: The document before you today is C 95/24, Draft Revised Agreement between OAU and FAO. The Conference is being asked to agree the draft agreement and authorize the Director-General to conclude it. I will provide some background on the revised Agreement.
The Agreement presently in force with the OAU was approved by the Council at its 51st Session in October 1968, and was confirmed by the Conference at its 15th Session in November 1969. In October 1990, OAU expressed the desire to strengthen existing cooperation with FAO and expand it to other fields. Initial proposals for the revision of the Agreement were made by the Secretariat of OAU, and talks took place on the occasion of the official visit to FAO of the OAU Secretary-General in November 1990. In July 1992 the 17th FAO Regional Conference for Africa recommended that the FAO/OAU Agreement should be revised and updated. The proposal was endorsed by the last FAO/OAU joint meeting convened in accordance with Article IV/1 of the Cooperation Agreement held in November 1994. A draft text for the revision of the Agreement, prepared in close cooperation by the Secretariats of both Organizations, was agreed to in principle by the Director-General of FAO and the Secretary-General of OAU in Addis Ababa in June 1995.
In general, the revised Agreement follows quite closely the previous Agreement. The main objective of the proposed revision is to update the present Agreement and to provide for the strengthening of cooperation between the two Organizations. Many of the amendments introduced are of a rather formal nature, while others are of a more substantive nature. The proposed revisions to the Preamble, for example, are largely editorial in nature, and the amendments to Article XI deal with changes to the formalities for the entry into force of the revised Agreement. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article I, on the other hand, deal with forms for strengthening cooperation, including the provision that FAO should, as far as possible and in conformity with its Constitutional instruments and decisions of its competent bodies, give due consideration to requests for technical assistance made by the OAU, and a provision that OAU in its turn should give its consideration to requests to enlist political, technical and financial support for the goals and objectives of FAO.
A new paragraph 3 in Article III provides for the possibility of OAU presenting a document to the FAO Regional Conference for Africa. A new paragraph 3 in Article V provides for the possibility of reciprocal invitations for the executive heads of OAU and FAO to address each other's governing bodies, and a new paragraph 2 in Article VI provides for joint studies to be undertaken by OAU and FAO and joint programmes to be established between them. In view of the limited nature of the amendments proposed, the Director-General did not consider it necessary to submit the text for detailed review by the CCLM.
The Director-General is now submitting this revised text to the Conference for approval, in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article XIII of the Constitution.
In presenting this Agreement for your approval, however, I should point out one reproduction error in the Preamble of the text before you. In the second preambular paragraph, the last clause at the end of the paragraph should read "and thus contributing toward an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity's freedom from hunger". That is unchanged from the original Agreement.
CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Dr Moore. The floor is now open for debate on Agenda Item 18.
Robert S. THWALA (Swaziland): Swaziland notes with satisfaction the amendments introduced into the Revised Agreement between FAO and OAU. It notes further that the strengthening of cooperation between the two Organizations has been long overdue, and in this regard wishes to congratulate the heads of the two Organizations for concluding the Revised Agreement at this time.
Swaziland endorses and supports the Revised Agrement and recommends its adoption by the Conference.
CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Swaziland. I am sure the entire Commission joins you in congratulating the leaders of the two Organizations for reaching this Agreement. Unless there are other speakers who wish to address this matter, I take it that it has the full approval of this Commission. It is so approved.
CHAIRMAN: Let us now turn our attention to Agenda Item 19, the Audited Accounts for 1992-93 and the Report on Action taken on recommendations by the initial External Auditor.
The responsible Department Head, Mr Khalid Mehboob, will briefly introduce this item. I see that has been delegated to the Financial Director, Mr Owens.
The first three documents indicated in your list of documents for this meeting contain financial statements and reports to the External Auditor on the Regular Programme, UNDP, and World Food Programme respectively. This is essentially routine information which is provided at each Conference, and it should be noted that the report of the External Auditor on these accounts is without qualification. Documents C 95/LIM/12 and C 95/LIM/13 provide comments of the Council on the audited accounts and include a Draft Resolution for their adoption.
I would note that the Finance Committee is also intensively involved in the review of the accounts and the implementation of recommendations by the External Auditor. It is the Finance Committee's recommendation for approval that was endorsed by the Council.
I now turn to the Finance Director.
Elmer S. OWENS (Director, Finance Division): You have before you, as you said this morning, the accounts for the 1992-93 biennium for the Regular Programme, Trust Funds and UNDP. These were audited by the External Auditor, and you have his report before you. The External Auditor found the accounts to be in order, and issued an unqualified opinion.
As far as implementation of the External Auditor's recommendations, these have been reported regularly to the Finance Committee. I am glad to report that we have made good progress on implementing those recommendations, and that at this point in time the Secretariat believes that most of these recommendations have been implemented.
I will not go any further at this time, but we will of course be glad to respond to any questions you may have.
D.P.D. VAN RAPPARD (Netherlands): In the atmosphere of this Commission, I shall be very brief. Netherlands' accountants have studied reports of the Audited Accounts and Report on Action very carefully. I am pleased to convey our satisfaction and approval to the External Auditor for each of the reports. I have also to express concern about the fact that these approvals were given only after the reports received major corrections.
Regarding the reports themselves:
First about FINSYS/PERSYS: this has been discussed many times already at this Conference, and it is satisfying to conclude that some major problems have been resolved. But regarding the new system, concern for a new failure remains. My delegation would like to receive information on which measures have been taken to prevent problems with this new system. Financial control of the central administration revealed problems with the unliquidated obligations, which are serious shortcomings, according to our accountants. The external accountant warned of the currency exchange fluctuations and endorsed reconsideration of the current measures in this field. My delegation would like to know what measures have been taken, and what currency exchange losses occurred in 1994.
Regarding WFP, the conclusion had to be drawn that during 1992-93, the Administration was nearly incomplete, due to arrears and the results of temporary accountants monitoring local offices. These appear to be problematic, and this resulted in lack of budget control.
CHAIRMAN: We will call on the Finance Director to answer the questions at the end of other comments.
John Egan McATEER (United States of America): Thank you, Mr Chairman, with regard to the approval of the accounts, the United States delegation accepts the 1992-93 Audited Accounts for the FAO Regular Program, UNDP and WFP. We note with satisfaction the unqualified opinion of the external auditor in all three instances. Turning to the work of the external auditor, we note with great interest the progress achieved by FAO in implementing his recommendations set forth in the FAO and UNDP financial statements for the 1992-93 biennium. We wish to see this progress continue.
Lack of timely and accurate monitoring of field expenditures, in particular, have given rise to deficiencies that must be corrected promptly.
Accounting systems neither should be unduly complex nor burdensome. Nevertheless, we would hope that expenditures can be fully documented, recorded properly in the books and records of FAO, and financial data obtained quickly to enable Member States to review spending patterns of specific programmes at timely intervals.
Speedy compliance with the External Auditor's recommendations contributes greatly toward a strong oversight mechanism at FAO.
With respect to the current biennium, we look forward to a careful examination of the report of the Cour des comptes on the 1994-95 financial statements next year.
Turning to FAO's internal oversight mechanisms, we are encouraged that FAO attaches great importance to internal auditing and we would hope that this continues, particularly in times of budget stringencies. Internal oversight mechanisms promote good management improvements. Enhancement of internal oversight mechanisms is an issue we are pursuing throughout the UN System.
Elmer S. OWENS (Director, Finance Division): The distinguished delegate from the Netherlands has expressed some concern that corrections were required into the accounts before the final audited opinion was given by the external auditors. This is in fact correct. It is not an unusual event for a set of accounts to be presented to the auditors and for the auditors to recommend to the RD certain changes and adjustments in those accounts.
This was done at this time and is not an unusual practice. Those adjustments related primarily to obligations the auditors felt were not valid and justified. We undertook discussions with the external auditors for a review and made the necessary adjustments to satisfy their concerns.
As regards the replacement of FINSYS/PERSYS, it is not directly related to the audited accounts in themselves but the Organization has learned a number of lessons from its experience with the development and implementation of the FINSYS/PERSYS system. I can say I was not here at the time that happened.
We are taking a significantly different approach this time, looking at commercial software packages that are tried and tested and that are operating in similar organizations to FAO, as opposed to the approach for the FINSYS/PERSYS, which was to build our own custom-built system. A number of those types of projects in the early to mid-1980s were unsuccessful, not only in FAO, but in a number of national governments and other organizations. We are taking an entirely different approach to resolving the problem this time, looking at commercial software packages.
As regards the question on currency exchange laws, any time you hold foreign currencies in your accounts you are subject to the movements in the currency markets and therefore there is the possibility of sustaining currency losses. However, in 1994 we had a net foreign exchange gain. I am sorry I do not have the figure before me. Primarily that gain was related to the Organization's forward purchase to cover its lire requirements for the biennium and we had significant foreign exchange gains on those forward purchase contracts.
The concern of lack of budgetary control in the field has been a concern of all of us. With the decentralization effort that is going on in the Director-General's programme of decentralization we are working on training programmes and other efforts. We are going to institute monthly audits in the field offices to check the assets under the control of those offices to be sure that the accounting records are in order.
We have developed training programmes and if appropriate resources are available we will be conducting more training of our field offices particularly our field administrative staff in this coming biennium. I think that responded to the questions. If I have missed any I will be glad to come back to them.
Srta. María Cristina FERRARI (Argentina): Gracias señor Presidente. Argentina va a hacer, solamente, unos breves comentarios porque queríamos respaldar las preocupaciones que había manifestado el delegado de Países Bajos respecto al informe del auditor.
Nosotros, Argentina, felicita al PMA por haber hecho conocer el informe del auditor externo porque muestra una verdadera autocrítica a lo que tiene que ser el sistema de gestión financiera del PMA. Sin embargo, creemos que el PMA necesita todavía un ajuste en el control de la gestión financiera.
Y queríamos hacer dos preguntas: la primera, es si el reglamento financiero del PMA prevé algún tipo de sanción para el responsable en la mala administración, sobre todo en los directores por países.
El informe del auditor externo indica que muchas veces los responsables de las oficinas en los países retienen cantidades considerables de recursos, que, con las fluctuaciones cambiarías, ocasionan graves pérdidas en dinero al PMA.
Por otra parte, queremos saber también si en la administración financiera que se controla generalmente por las sedes -según lo dice el informe- se han previsto algunos cambios, porque, al parecer, las rendiciones de cuentas de las oficinas de los países no llegarían en término a la sede.
Gary EIDET (WFP): Yes. Financial Rule 103.1 states: "All staff members of the Programme are accountable to the Executive Director for the regularity of the actions taken by them in the course of their official duties. Any staff member who takes any action contrary to these Regulations and Rules, or to instructions which may be issued pursuant to these Regulations and Rules, may be held personally responsible and financially liable for the consequences of such action."
The problems noted by the Auditors arose as a result of WFP having shifted, in many countries and rather suddenly, from Developmental to Relief activities without having its systems modified to reflect the new requirements.
As a result of both the External Auditor's and McKinsey's Company's findings, the Programme started a series of actions to remedy the situation reported. Progress reports on the implementation of External Auditor's recommendations were and are being submitted to the 39th and 40th Sessions of the CFA, after having been reviewed by the FAO Finance Committee and UN ACABQ.
Greater control over financial accounts in country offices are being introduced at WFP Headquarters. Financial returns from country offices are being monitored to ensure that they are being submitted on time. Processing of country office accounting returns has been accelerated significantly. Country Directors are being held more accountable for discharge of financial management duties in the field.
CHAIRMAN: Are there other comments on this Agenda Item? The item is approved.
The final item on our Agenda this morning is the Proposed Scale of Contributions for the 1996-97 biennium. This is a routine matter presented at each conference as it includes a Resolution for the Adoption of the Scale of Contributions.
There is available, and I hope you all have it, an update of the document issued some weeks ago to adjust the Scale of Contributions, to include the new members who are elected at this Conference. Is there any discussion of this item?
Thank you very much for your efficiency this morning. The item is approved.
CHAIRMAN: That completes our agenda this morning, but I do need to make a proposal to this Commission. It was the practice during the Conference in 1991, and again in 1993, to grant to a staff representative the possibility of addressing Commission III on behalf of all three staff representative bodies, the Association of Professional Staff, the Field Staff Association, and the Union of General Service Staff.
This item will be scheduled on Monday under "Other Administrative and Financial Matters" if the address by the staff representative is agreeable to the Commission. Is there any objection? We will therefore invite them to speak to us on Monday under "Other Administrative and Financial Matters".
We also have on our Agenda for Monday morning the Financial Position of the Organization, including Status of Contributions and the Director-General's Proposal to Discontinue the Discount Scheme. I hope we can take those items very quickly. We also hope to have available on Monday morning a Draft Report on the items that we have covered today.
When the bureau has discussed our report we hope to give you a very short, very efficient, very to-the-point report that reflects our debate this morning. Unless there are any other matters that delegations wish to bring up at this time, this meeting is adjourned until 9.30 on Monday morning.
The meeting rose at 11.00 hours.
La séance est levée à 11 heures.
Se levanta la sesión a las 11.00 horas.
