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A. Sixteenth McDougall memorial lecture
B. Presentation of the B.R. Sen Awards for
1988 and 1989
C. Presentation of the A.H. Boerma Award
1988-89
D. Tribute to Late President René Moawad of
Lebanon
E. Tribute to late president Ahmed Abdallah
Abderemane of Comoros
F. In
memoriam
A. Sixteenth McDougall memorial lecture
1. The sixteenth in the series of lectures at regular Conference sessions in memory of Frank Lidgett McDougall, a founding father of the Organization, was delivered by His Excellency Giorgio Ruffolo, Minister for the Environment of the Republic of Italy.
B. Presentation of the B.R. Sen Awards for 1988 and 1989
2. The awards, which honour the name of Mr B.R. Sen, Director-General of FAO from 1956 to 1967, are conferred annually. They are given to the field officer who has made the most outstanding contribution to development in an agricultural sector of the country or countries to which he or she has been assigned.
3. The Award for 1988 was presented to Mr Henry R. Stennett, a citizen of Jamaica, in recognition of his achievements in Nepal in the fields of watershed management and conservation education, and forestry sector development. His professional competence and dedication had contributed decisively to the success of large-scale projects which included assistance in the drafting of soil conservation legislation, in the preparation of watershed development plans at the national level, and in the protection of hydropower facilities and sources of water supply through watershed management.
4. His Majesty's Government of Nepal, in endorsing the selection of Mr Stennett for a Sen Award, confirmed the success of his efforts.
5. The Award for 1989 was presented to Mr Everest Santiago Funes, a citizen of Argentina, for his contribution to communication development in Mexico. It was largely due to his technical ability and initiative that a project on communication and training financed by the World Bank to provide assistance to Mexico's Integrated Rural Development Programme for the Tropical Wetlands had been so successful.
6. The rural communication system developed by Mr Funes had applied a multi-media approach and had made use of traditional media, community radio, video, slidesets and simple illustrated printed materials. A great number of audio-visual programmes had been produced for training at grass-roots level, for situation analysis, and for establishing links between rural communities and national institutions and sectors.
7. The Government of Mexico, in endorsing the selection of Mr Funes for a Sen Award, acknowledged that the communication system had been instrumental to the success of the national rural development programme for the tropical wetlands.
C. Presentation of the A.H. Boerma Award 1988-89
8. The A.H. Boerma Award is presented biennially to a journalist or journalists whose work has helped to focus public attention on important aspects of the world food problem and thereby contributed towards increasing public support for measures leading to its solution.
9. On this, the sixth occasion, the Award for 1988-1989 was presented to Mr Federico Fazzuoli from Italy for his national television programme "Linea Verde". It was pointed out that this programme's in-depth coverage of a wide range of environmental, food and agricultural problems at the national and international level, including topics of particular importance to FAO, had helped to create greater awareness of such issues.
D. Tribute to Late President René Moawad of Lebanon
10. The Conference observed one minute of silence in memory of the President of the Republic of Lebanon, Mr René Moawad, who was assassinated by terrorist actions seventeen days into his Presidency. The Conference praised the courage of Mr Moawad in his many efforts to seek a peaceful solution to the political situation of his country, and asked the Representative of Lebanon to express the deepest condolences of all the Member Nations of FAO to the Lebanese people for Mr Moawad's untimely and unfortunate death. The Representative of Lebanon thanked the Conference for its many expressions of sorrow in this especially trying moment for his country, and noted that the hope for peace in Lebanon would override this treacherous and criminal act.
E. Tribute to late president Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane of Comoros
11. The Conference observed a minute of silence in memory of His Excellency Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, President of the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros, who had died on 26 November 1989.
12. The Conference observed one minute of silence in memory of those staff members who had died in the service of the Organization since the Conference had last met.
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