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A. Election of the chairman and vice-chairmen
of the conference
B. Appointment of the general committee and
the credentials Committee
C.
Adoption of the agenda
D. Arrangements for the session and
allocation of agenda items
E. Admission of observers
A. Election of the chairman and vice-chairmen of the conference
6. The Council nominated, and the Conference elected R.C. Kamanga (Zambia) as Chairman of the Seventeenth Session of the Conference.
7. The Nominations Committee recommended, and the Conference approved the following appointments:
Vice-Chairmen of the Conference
Mrs. M. Paniza de Bellavita (Panama)
Hao Chung-Shih (China)
I. Ionascu (Romania)
B. Appointment of the general committee and the credentials Committee
8. The Nominations Committee recommended, and the Conference approved the following appointments:
Members of the General Committee
| Germany, Fed. Rep. of | Saudi Arabia |
| Japan | United Kingdom |
| Madagascar | United States of America |
| Mexico |
Members of the Credentials Committee
| Afghanistan | Niger |
| Austria | Norway |
| Burma | Peru |
| Gambia | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Malaysia |
9. The Conference adopted the Agenda set out in Appendix A to this Report.
D. Arrangements for the session and allocation of agenda items
Establishment of commissions and appointment of their chairmen and vice-chairmen
Resolutions committee of the conference
Right of reply
Verbatim records
Verification of credentials
Voting rights
Informal meeting of international non-governmental organizations
10. The Conference adopted the arrangements and timetable proposed by the Sixtieth Session of the Council, as amended by the General Committee.
Establishment of commissions and appointment of their chairmen and vice-chairmen
11. The Conference concurred with the Council's recommendation to establish three Commissions to consider and report upon Parts I, II and III of the Agenda.
12. In accordance with Rules VII-1 and XXIV-5(b) of the General Rules of the Organization (GRO), the Sixty-First Session of the Council had nominated the following chairmen of the Commissions:
| Commission I | S. Haidar (Lebanon) |
| Commission II | W. Ives (Australia) |
| Commission III | O.R. Borin (Italy) |
13. The Conference appointed the foregoing officers and, taking
into consideration the proposals of the General Committee, in
accordance with Rule XIII-2 GRO also appointed:
| Vice-Chairmen of Commission I | T.N. Tharleng (Thailand) H.W. Popp (Switzerland) |
| Vice-Chairmen of Commission II | J. Pagot (France) G. St. Siegens (Honduras) |
| Vice-Chairmen of Commission III | Hannablia (Tunisia) S. Amat (Indonesia) |
14. The Conference agreed with the recommendation of the Sixtieth
Session of the Council that it appoint a Rapporteur from Plenary
to Commission I, to inform the Commission of the salient points
made by ministers and heads of delegation in their general
statements. On the proposal of the General Committee, it
appointed H.E. Ryan (Canada) as Rapporteur from Plenary to
Commission I.
Resolutions committee of the conference
15. The Sixtieth Session of the Council had recommended the establishment of a Resolutions Committee similar to that which had functioned during the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Sessions of the Conference. The Conference concurred with this recommendation, and agreed that this Committee should comprise the Chairmen of the Programme Committee, the Finance Committee and the CCLM, together with four members of the General Committee. The following four members were selected by that Committee:
| Japan | Saudi Arabia |
| Romania | United States of America |
16. The Conference agreed to the proposal of the General
Committee that the Resolutions Committee should elect a chairman
from among its own members.
17. The Conference approved the functions and method of operation of the Resolutions Committee, as well as the criteria for the formulation of resolutions, as set out in document C 73/11-Sup.1.
18. The Conference confirmed the decision taken at its three previous sessions to the effect that, when a delegate wished to reply to criticism of his Government's policy he should preferably do so on the afternoon of the day on which such criticism had been voiced, after all those wishing to participate in the discussion had had an opportunity to do so.
19. Under FAO rules, verbatim records were kept of the Conference Plenary and Commission meetings, and the right of delegates to suggest corrections to the records was specifically mentioned (Rule XVIII-2 GRO).
20. The definition of " corrections'', and the procedure for having them inserted in the verbatim records, were the same as those adopted by the Fourteenth Session of the Conference.
21. The credentials of delegations of 127 Member Nations, including those of the five newly admitted Member Nations, were found in order. The credentials of one delegation were found invalid. Three Member Nations did not send a delegation to the Conference.
22. The credentials of the Permanent Observers to FAO of the Holy See were found satisfactory.
23. The names of the representatives of the international organizations attending the Conference, including the United Nations and Specialized Agencies, were duly deposited as prescribed by Rule III-2 GRO.
24. The Conference recalled that under the terms of Article III-4 of the Constitution, a Member Nation which was in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization had no vote in the Conference if the amount of its arrears equalled or exceeded the amount of the contributions due from it for the two preceding calendar years. The Conference might, nevertheless, permit such Member Nations to vote if it was satisfied that the failure to pay was due to conditions beyond the control of such Member National.
25. The Conference noted that four Member Nations were in arrears in the amount referred to above. It decided, however, exceptionally to allow these countries to retain their voting rights pending the result of negotiations with them in the course of the Session with a view to regularizing their position.
26. Two of these Member Nations then regularized their position, and were therefore entitled to their voting rights. In view of the failure by the two others to meet their obligations, the Conference agreed that, in accordance with Article III-4 of the Constitution, those Member Nations were not entitled to vote for the remainder of the Seventeenth Session of the Conference
Informal meeting of international non-governmental organizations
27. An informal meeting of representatives of international non-governmental organizations admitted as observers to the Seventeenth Session of the Conference was convened on Monday 12 November 1973. The Sixty-First Session of the Council had nominated M. Cépède, as Chairman of that meeting.
Applicants for membership
Intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations
28. As was customary, the Director-General had provisionally invited the applicants for membership to be represented by observers until their admission to the Organization had been decided upon. These applicants were Albania, Bangladesh, the Mongolian People's Republic and the United Arab Emirates. The Conference confirmed the Director-General's action.
Intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations
29. The Conference approved the list of international organizations to which the Director General had extended a provisional invitation to the Conference session, and invited the representatives of these organizations to participate in the activities of the Conference in an observer capacity.
30. The Conference concurred with the recommendation of the General Committee that, in accordance with Rule XVII-3 GRO, the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) address the Plenary of the Conference. Statements by the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) were inserted in the verbatim records of the General Discussion.
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