Requeststhe 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 twentysecond 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-ordinatioa 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;
28 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.
21 Official Records of the Economi, aNd s,,cial COffflcil, Fortythird Stssion, Annezts, agenda items 2 and 13, documents E/4352 and Add.I.
2
Invitesthe Governments concerned to make use of multilateral facilities in implementing the Food Aid Convention ;
3
Requeststhe 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).
