FAO Council

"A Council of the Organization consisting of forty-nine Member Nations shall be elected by the Conference. Each Member Nation on the Council shall have one representative and shall have only one vote."

FAO Constitution, Article V.1

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The Council is the executive organ of the Conference. It exercises powers delegated to it by the Conference and meets at least three times between regular Conference sessions. The Council comprises 49 Member Nations each elected by the Conference for a three-year term with one-third of the membership standing down each year.

An Independent Chairperson of the Council is appointed by the Conference for a renewable two-year term. The present incumbent, Mohammed Saeid Noori-Naeini (Iran, Islamic Republic of), was appointed by the Conference in 2005 for a term of office expiring at the conclusion of the 2007 Conference session.

MEMBERS OF THE FAO COUNCIL

Algeria2 Angola¹ Armenia¹ Australia³ Bangladesh1 Bolivia² Brazil² Cameroon^{2 4} Canada² Cape Verde² Chile¹ China¹ Congo¹ Côte d'Ivoire³ Cuba² Egypt³ El Salvador³	Eritrea² France³ Germany¹ India³ Indonesia³ Iran, Islamic Republic of¹ Italy³ Japan¹ Lebanon³ Madagascar³ Mali² Malta² Mexico² Netherlands² Nigeria³ Oman² Pakistan³	Panama¹ Peru¹ Philippines¹ Republic of Korea¹ Romania¹ Saudi Arabia³ Slovenia² Sweden³ Thailand¹ Trinidad and Tobago² Uganda¹ United Arab Emirates² United Kingdom³ United States of America² Zambia³
¹ Term of office until 31 December 2006. ² Term of office until the conclusion of the Thirty-second Session of the Conference, November 2007. ³ Term of office until 31 December 2008. ⁴ Replaced the Democratic Republic of the Congo until November 2007.