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XII. Membership, elections and appointments

A. Admission of new member nations and associate members
B. Appointment of the independent chairman of the council
C. Election of council members
D. Appointment of FAO staff pension committee

A. Admission of new member nations and associate members

553. The Conference had before it:

Five of the above nations - Chad, Gabon, Madagascar, Mali and Senegal - had been admitted to associate membership in 1959.

554. These applications were found to be in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution and the General Rules of the Organization.

555. The application concerning Jamaica and Romania, however, required the suspension of Rule XIX of the General Rules of the Organization. The Conference resolved accordingly to suspend Rule XIX of the General Rules.

556. The Conference proceeded to a secret ballot in accordance with Article II.2 of the Constitution and Rule XII.9 of the General Rules of the Organization and as a result granted membership to the countries listed in paragraph 553 (a) above and associate membership to those listed in paragraph 553(b) above, from 9 November 1961.

557. As the applications on behalf of Jamaica and Tanganyika applied to nations which would shortly become independent, the Conference decided, at the request of the Metropolitan Power, and in accordance with a precedent established at its Tenth Session (a) that Jamaica and Tanganyika should be admitted to associate membership until they became independent, (b) that the status of each would become that of full membership after it attained independence and after the government of the newly-independent nation had submitted to the Director-General an instrument confirming its desire to be a member of the Organization and its acceptance of the obligations of the Constitution, (c) that such change of status would take place on the date of receipt by the Director-General of the aforesaid instrument, if found valid, and (d) that all Member Nations would immediately be notified accordingly.

558. The results of the voting on the various applications are as follows:

B. Appointment of the independent chairman of the council

559. In accordance with Article XXIII of the General Rules of the Organization, the Conference appointed Mr. Louis Maire Independent Chairman of the Council for a further period of two years.

At the same time the Conference noted that the allowance attaching to this office had remained unchanged since 1947 and decided to increase it to $6,250.

C. Election of council members

560. In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the General Rules of the Organization, the Conference elected the following Member Nations to membership of the Council, taking each group in succession:

Two additional seats having been created at this session for Africa, the Conference decided to allot them to the First and Third Groups, respectively. As the Third Group (January 1961 to November 1963) did not come up for election at this session, the Conference decided as an exceptional measure to fill the individual seat but only for the remaining part of the term of office of the Third Group, i.e. November 1961 to November 1963.

561. For the European region, Yugoslavia withdrew in favor of Italy after the second ballot and prior to the election of the Second Group; for the African region, Ethiopia withdrew in favor of Cameroun after the second ballot.

D. Appointment of FAO staff pension committee

562. In accordance with Article XX of the Regulations of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, the Conference appointed:

Dr. Carolus Eygenraam,
Agricultural Attaché,
Royal Netherlands Embassy,
Rome

Mr. Hussein Sadegh,
Agricultural Attaché,
Imperial Embassy of Iran,
Rome

Dr. Vittorio de Asarta,
Secretary, Italian
National FAO Committee,
Rome

as members of the FAO Pension Committee, and

Mr. Maxwell S. Strong,
First Secretary,
Embassy of Canada,
Rome

Mr. Gad Elron,
First Secretary
(Economic Affairs),
Embassy of Israel,
Rome

Mr. John Moore,
Bureau of International
Organization Affairs,
U.S. Department of State,
Washington, D. C.

as alternate members of the Committee for the period 1 January 1962 until 31 December 1963.

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