XXII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE
2300. Multilateral food aid

The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 2096 (XX) of 20 December 1965 and 2155 (XXI) of 22 November 1966 on the programme of studies on multilateral food aid, and also the recommendation contained in annex A.II.6 of the Final Act adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its first session,[1] Noting with appreciation the progress report of the Secretary-General,[2] Taking note of the Food Aid Convention, which forms part of the International Grains Arrangement 1967 and embodies, inter alia, the principle that food aid benefits food-exporting developing countries as well as food-deficit developing countries, Stressing the need for ensuring the effective co-ordination of all food aid programmes while duly safeguarding the trade interests of the food-exporting and food-importing countries, especially the developing countries, and domestic agriculture in recipient countries,

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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