Multilateral food aid
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Date:
12 December 1967
XXII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE
2300. Multilateral food aid
1. Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in consultation with the executive heads of other interested international agencies and programmes, and bearing in mind the need to safeguard duly the trade interests of the food-exporting and food-importing countries, especially the developing countries, and domestic agriculture in recipient countries:
(a) To continue the programme of studies on multilateral food aid called for in General Assembly resolution 2096 (XX), in the light of the views concerning the world food problem expressed at the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, at the twenty-second session of the General Assembly and at the second session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;
(b) To give particular attention, in the next phase of the study, to the problems of the co-ordination of all food aid programmes and to review and assess the adequacy of existing multilateral institutional arrangements for handling, in case of need, a substantially increased volume of food aid, including the possibility of modifying such arrangements;
2. Invites the Governments concerned to make use of multilateral facilities in implementing the Food Aid Convention;
3. Requests the Secretary-General to include information on the implementation of the present resolution in the final report to be submitted by him in pursuance of resolution 2096 (XX).
1626th plenary meeting,12 December 1967.
[1] See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, vol. I, Final Act and Report (United Nations publication, Sales No.: 64.II.B.11), p. 32. [2] Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Forty-third Session, Annexes, agenda items 2 and 13, documents E/4352 and Add.1.
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