XXVIII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE
3180. World Food Conference

The General Assembly, Recognizing that the principal task of a world food conference, on which the greatest effort should be concentrated, consists in developing ways and means whereby the international community as a whole could take specific action to resolve the world food problem within the broader context of development and international economic co-operation, Believing that a world food conference would provide members with a forum in which to bring about the improvement of world food security and emergency assistance, Recognizing that the conference should, in the first instance, place emphasis on additional measures for increasing the food production, consumption and trade of developing countries, Recalling that the Fourth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Algiers from 5 to 9 September 1973, called for the convening, as a matter of urgency, of a conference on food problems at the ministerial level, sponsored jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development[1] and further recalling the proposal of the United States of America for the convocation of a world food conference under the auspices of the United Nations,[2]

1. Decides to convene a World Food Conference under the auspices of the United Nations for about two weeks, in November 1974, in Rome;

2. Recommends that the Conference be an intergovernmental conference at the ministerial level;

3. Entrusts the Economic and Social Council with over-all responsibility for the Conference;

4. Requests the Secretary-General, after consultation with the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to appoint as soon as possible a Secretary-General of the Conference and to set up a small Conference secretariat drawing particularly upon the expertise and competence of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other relevant bodies of the United Nations system;

5. Recommends that, in preparing for the World Food Conference, proper account be taken of the recommendations of the seventeenth Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and of the recommendations made by legislative bodies of other organizations in the United Nations system concerning the goals and objectives of the Conference, as requested by the Economic and Social Council in its decision of 18 October 1973;[3]

6. Invites all the competent organizations of the United Nations system to collaborate closely in the organization of the Conference;

7. Accepts with appreciation the invitation of the Government of Italy to act as host to the Conference in Rome.

2204th plenary meeting,
17 December 1973


[1] A/9330 and Corr.1, p. 99 [2] See Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-eighth Session, Annexes, agenda item 105, document A/9194. [3] See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Resumed Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 1A (E/5400/ Add.1), p. 3.
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