A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/53/223* 23 April 1999 Fifty-third session Agenda items 8 and 12 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/899)] 53/223. Revision of the General Regulations of the World Food Programme The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 48/162 of 20 December 1993 and 50/8 of 1 November 1995, 1. Decides, subject to the concurrence of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, that the members of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme shall be elected on an interim basis for a term of three years from among the States included in the lists1 set out in the Basic Texts of the World Food Programme, in accordance with the following distribution of seats, it being understood that this allocation of seats creates no precedent for the composition of other United Nations bodies of limited membership: (a) Eight members from the States included in list A, four members to be elected by the Economic and Social Council and four by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; (b) Seven members from the States included in list B, four members to be elected by the Economic and Social Council and three by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; (c) Five members from the States included in list C, two members to be elected by the Economic and Social Council and three by the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; * Reissued for technical reasons. 1 Reproduced in E/1998/L.1/Add.4, annex II. 99-77227 /...