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9. I was in Rome during the conference as a WFP staff member. I did not attend the

conference sessions but met with delegates and followed its deliberations closely through
discussions with delegates, the local press and the conference newspaper, PAN, which
was published by the International Council of Voluntary Agencies. Its journalists were
independent. Some had worked on ECO, the newspaper of the Stockholm Environment
Conference and on PLANET, the newspaper of the World Population Conference in
Bucharest. Eleven issues were produced. Each issue carried the reminder to conference
participants, `Remember. They can't eat your words'. The statements of many of the
leading participants have been taken from UN, 1974c. I have also drawn from the
clinical accounts of the conference in Martin (1974) and Weiss and Jordan (1976).

10. An additional interpretation was that three food ideologies contested for domination

in US food policies at the time: the neo-Hamiltonian (the market economy); the neo-
Jeffersonian (the public economy); and the neo-Madisonian (the pluralist interest-group
economy) (Talbot, 1977).

11. After the conference, FAO director-general Boerma proposed that Sartaj Aziz become

executive director of the World Food Council (WFC). Another suggestion was that
he should run for the director-generalship of FAO in November 1975 at the end of
Boerma's first term of office. Eventually, Aziz became WFC's deputy executive director
of WFC (197576), president of the Society for International Development (197679)
and assistant president of IFAD (197884). He then returned to Pakistan to become a
member of the Pakistan senate in March 1985. He was appointed Minister of State for
Food and Agriculture (198588), Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs (199093
and again in 199798) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (199899) (Dil, 2000).

12. The US delegation to the 2930 September 1975 meeting at the International Wheat

Council in London was led by Richard E. Bell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Inter-
national Affairs and Commodity Programs, seconded by Julius L. Katz, Deputy Secretary
of State for Economic and Business Affairs. Katz headed the delegation following Bell's
departure on 30 September for grain talks in Moscow. Also present at the meeting were
representatives from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Egypt, El Salvador, the European
Economic Community, Finland, India, Japan, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia
and the Soviet Union.

13. Intensive debate on the drafting of the modalities of the IEFR took up many hours in

the drafting group of WFP's governing body, often into the early hours of the morning,
before they were completed and later approved.

14. This formulation had its origins in the recommendation of a Panel of Experts on the

Protein Problem Confronting Developing Countries, which stated: There is, however,
a clear need for a political body or committee operating at the highest level within
the United Nations system with responsibility for mobilizing international opinion and
action

Such a body should be composed of representatives of Governments at the

highest possible level, preferably cabinet ministers, so that nations concerned are closely
identified with its efforts, and could be established by the General Assembly or the
Economic and Social Council (UN, 1971b; Weiss and Jordan, 1976, p. 99).

15. The number of WFC members was agreed by the UN General Assembly in its resolution

XXIX of 17 December 1974.

16. Of the 36 members of the WFC, nine were to come from African states, eight from Asian

states, seven from Latin America and the Caribbean, four from the Socialist States of
Eastern Europe and eight from Western Europe and other states.

17. In the `Rules of Procedure' adopted by WFC at its second session in June 1976, the

executive head was referred to as the `executive secretary', whose appointment would
be `subject to the approval of the General Assembly'. This was amended at the third
session of WFC in June 1977, in the light of UN General Assembly resolution 31/120,
when the title `executive secretary' was changed to `executive director' and approval
by the UN General Assembly was dropped. The post was established at the assistant
director-general level, although attempts were made to raise it to the under-secretary
level.

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Useful links	Notes MAC/WFY Page-468 0230_553559_47_not01 468 Notes 9. I was in Rome during the conference as a WFP staff member. I did not attend the conference sessions but met with delegates and followed its deliberations closely through discussions with delegates, the local press and the conference newspaper, PAN, which was published by the International Council of Voluntary Agencies. Its journalists were independent. Some had worked on ECO, the newspaper of the Stockholm Environment Conference and on PLANET, the newspaper of the World Population Conference in Bucharest. Eleven issues were produced. Each issue carried the reminder to conference participants, `Remember. They can't eat your words'. The statements of many of the leading participants have been taken from UN, 1974c. I have also drawn from the clinical accounts of the conference in Martin (1974) and Weiss and Jordan (1976). 10. An additional interpretation was that three food ideologies contested for domination in US food policies at the time: the neo-Hamiltonian (the market economy); the neo- Jeffersonian (the public economy); and the neo-Madisonian (the pluralist interest-group economy) (Talbot, 1977). 11. After the conference, FAO director-general Boerma proposed that Sartaj Aziz become executive director of the World Food Council (WFC). Another suggestion was that he should run for the director-generalship of FAO in November 1975 at the end of Boerma's first term of office. Eventually, Aziz became WFC's deputy executive director of WFC (197576), president of the Society for International Development (197679) and assistant president of IFAD (197884). He then returned to Pakistan to become a member of the Pakistan senate in March 1985. He was appointed Minister of State for Food and Agriculture (198588), Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs (199093 and again in 199798) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (199899) (Dil, 2000). 12. The US delegation to the 2930 September 1975 meeting at the International Wheat Council in London was led by Richard E. Bell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Inter- national Affairs and Commodity Programs, seconded by Julius L. Katz, Deputy Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs. Katz headed the delegation following Bell's departure on 30 September for grain talks in Moscow. Also present at the meeting were representatives from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Egypt, El Salvador, the European Economic Community, Finland, India, Japan, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia and the Soviet Union. 13. Intensive debate on the drafting of the modalities of the IEFR took up many hours in the drafting group of WFP's governing body, often into the early hours of the morning, before they were completed and later approved. 14. This formulation had its origins in the recommendation of a Panel of Experts on the Protein Problem Confronting Developing Countries, which stated: There is, however, a clear need for a political body or committee operating at the highest level within the United Nations system with responsibility for mobilizing international opinion and action Such a body should be composed of representatives of Governments at the highest possible level, preferably cabinet ministers, so that nations concerned are closely identified with its efforts, and could be established by the General Assembly or the Economic and Social Council (UN, 1971b; Weiss and Jordan, 1976, p. 99). 15. The number of WFC members was agreed by the UN General Assembly in its resolution XXIX of 17 December 1974. 16. Of the 36 members of the WFC, nine were to come from African states, eight from Asian states, seven from Latin America and the Caribbean, four from the Socialist States of Eastern Europe and eight from Western Europe and other states. 17. In the `Rules of Procedure' adopted by WFC at its second session in June 1976, the executive head was referred to as the `executive secretary', whose appointment would be `subject to the approval of the General Assembly'. This was amended at the third session of WFC in June 1977, in the light of UN General Assembly resolution 31/120, when the title `executive secretary' was changed to `executive director' and approval by the UN General Assembly was dropped. The post was established at the assistant director-general level, although attempts were made to raise it to the under-secretary level. back to top Next page
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