| CL 117/8
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| CL 117/8
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Hundred and Seventeenth Session |
Rome, 9-11 November 1999 |
MEMBERSHIP OF THE WFP EXECUTIVE BOARD |
1. In accordance with Resolution 9/95 adopted by the 28th Session of the FAO Conference on 31 October 1995, whereby the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes was reconstituted as the Executive Board of the World Food Programme, the 118th Session of the Council is required to elect six members of the WFP Executive Board for a term of office of three years from among FAO Member Nations.
2. For purposes of election to the Board, FAO Member Nations are divided into five separate lists (A, B, C, D and E) as shown in Appendix A to this document.
3. The present composition of the WFP Executive Board is as follows, with the List (as per Appendix A) to which each member belongs indicated in brackets:
| Term of office Expiring | Elected by FAO Council | Elected by ECOSOC |
| 31 December 1999 | Australia (D) Brazil (C) Jordan (B) Senegal (A) Slovakia (E) Spain (D) |
Angola (A) Belgium (D) Ethiopia (A) Iran, Islamic Republic of (B) Japan (D) Mexico (C) |
| 31 December 2000 | Bangladesh (B) Burundi (A) El Salvador (C) Netherlands (D) Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of (B) United States of America (D) |
Finland (D) Indonesia (B) Pakistan (B) Russian Federation (E) Sierra Leone (A) United Kingdom (D) |
| 31 December 2001 | Canada (D) China (B) Cuba (C) Germany (D) Lesotho (A) Sudan (A) |
Congo, Rep. of (A) Denmark (D) Haiti (C) Morocco (A) Sweden (D) Yemen (B) |
4. The Council will therefore be required to elect six members, for a term of office expiring on 31 December 2002 to replace the ones whose terms end on 31 December 1999, i.e. Australia, Brazil, Jordan, Senegal, Slovakia and Spain.
5. In anticipation of the adoption of Resolutions by the 30th Session of the FAO Conference and the UN General Assembly on the revision of the General Regulations of the WFP regarding the distribution of seats on the Executive Board starting from 1 January 2000, the six seats to be filled by the 118th Session of the Council for the period 2000-2002 are 2 from List A (including the seat rotating among the States in Lists A, B and C), 1 from List C, 2 from List D and 1 from List E.
6. Outgoing members are eligible for re-election.
7. A nomination form is given in Appendix B to this document, and the deadline for submission of nominations to the Secretary General of the Council is 12.00 hours on Monday 22 November 1999.
APPENDIX A
FAO MEMBER NATIONS LISTINGS FOR ELECTION TO THE
WFP EXECUTIVE BOARD 1
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1. DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
States: 130
WFP Executive Board Seats: 20 (ten each to be elected by the FAO Council and the ECOSOC of the United Nations) plus 1 seat to be elected by the FAO Council that will rotate between the States included in List A (2000-2002), List B (2003-2005), List A (2006-2008) and List C (2009-2011)
The 20 seats will be distributed on the following basis:
List A
States: 53
WFP Executive Board Seats: 8 (four each to be elected by the FAO Council and by the ECOSOC of the United Nations)
| Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Rep. of C�te d'Ivoire Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea |
Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia |
Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania, United Rep. of Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe |
List B
States: 44
WFP Executive Board Seats: 7 (three to be elected by the FAO Council and four by the ECOSOC of the United Nations).
| Afghanistan Azerbaijan Bangladesh Bahrain Bhutan Cambodia China Cook Islands Democratic People's Republic of Korea Fiji India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq Jordan |
Kazakhstan Korea, Republic of Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Papua New Guinea Philippines |
Qatar Samoa Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Tonga Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Vanuatu Viet Nam Yemen |
Applicants for membership in FAO: Marshall Islands; Niue; Palau
List C
States: 33
WFP Executive Board Seats: 5 (three to be elected by the FAO Council and two by the ECOSOC of the United Nations)
| Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba |
Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico |
Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela |
2. ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
States: 45
WFP Executive Board Seats: 15 (seven to be elected by the FAO Council and eight by the ECOSOC of the United Nations)
The 15 seats will be distributed on the following basis:
List D
States: 27
WFP Executive Board Seats: 12 (six each to be elected by the FAO Council and the ECOSOC of the United Nations)
| Australia Austria Belgium Canada Cyprus Denmark Finland France Germany |
Greece Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Luxembourg Malta Netherlands |
New Zealand Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom United States of America |
Applicant for membership in FAO: San Marino
List E
States: 18
WFP Executive Board Seats: 3 (one to be elected by the FAO Council and two by the ECOSOC of the United Nations)
| Albania Armenia Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Estonia |
Georgia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Moldova Poland |
Romania Slovakia Slovenia The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Yugoslavia |
APPENDIX B
NOMINATION FORM FOR WFP EXECUTIVE BOARD
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To be submitted by 12.00 hours on Monday 22 November 1999
To: The Secretary-General of the Council Date: ..............................
Room B-202
The Delegate of ...................................................................(FAO Member Nation)
(signature) .......................................
Wishes to nominate for List .............................1
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for election to a seat on the WFP Executive Board for the term of office
1 January 2000 - 31 December 2002.
The Delegate of ..................................................................(FAO Member Nation)
(signature) .......................................
accepts this nomination
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1 Listings include all FAO Member Nations as at 9 August 1999.
