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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/50/8
7 December 1995
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 12
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/50/615)]
50/8. Revision of the General Regulations of the World
Food Programme and reconstitution of the
Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes as
the Executive Board of the World Food Programme
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 1714 (XVI) of 19 December 1961, 2095 (XX) of
20 December 1965 and 3404 (XXX) of 28 November 1975, concerning the
establishment and continuation of the United Nations/Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations World Food Programme, and its
resolution 46/22 of 5 December 1991 on the revision of the General Regulations
of the World Food Programme and enlargement of the Committee on Food Aid
Policies and Programmes of the World Food Programme,
Recalling also its resolution 48/162 of 20 December 1993, on further
measures for the restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the
economic, social and related fields,
Having considered Economic and Social Council decision 1995/227 of
6 June 1995 adopted on the recommendation of the Committee on Food Aid
Policies and Programmes of the World Food Programme concerning the governance
of the Programme, the revision of the General Regulations of the World Food
Programme, and the reconstitution of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and
Programmes as the Executive Board of the World Food Programme,
1.
Decides, subject to the concurrence of the Conference of the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, that the Committee on Food
Aid Policies and Programmes shall be reconstituted as the Executive Board of
the World Food Programme, with thirty-six members elected from among the
States Members of the United Nations or the States members of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and that the Economic and
Social Council and the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
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