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Worl Food Summit

A/RES/50/109No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95kFood and sustainable agricultural development, published in 1996.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics
Budget ContributionsConferencesFinancial AssistanceFood SecurityParticipantsTrust Funds

What does this mandate say?

5 operative paragraphs
1
Welcomes the decision of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its twenty-eighth session to convene the World Food Summit at Rome from 13 to 17 November 1996 at the level of heads of State or Government;
2
Invites Governments to participate actively in Summit preparations and to be represented at the level of heads of State or Government;
3
Invites all relevant United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations, including international and regional financial institutions, as well as non-governmental organizations and the private sector, to cooperate actively with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in preparing for the Summit;
4
Invites the international community to make contributions on a voluntary basis to the special trust fund established by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in order to facilitate the preparations for and the holding of the Summit as well as to facilitate the preparations for effective participation of representatives of developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, both at the sessions of the Committee on World Food Security of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to be held in January and September 1996 as preparatory meetings and at the Summit itself;
5
Invites the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to submit to the General Assembly, at its fifty-second session, through the Economic and Social Council, a report on the outcome of the Summit, including actions to be taken to follow up the outcome of the Summit at all appropriate levels.

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