Food and sustainable agricultural development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1996
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SymbolA/RES/51/171
TitleFood and sustainable agricultural development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Summary
Welcomes the outcome of the World Food Summit, held at Rome from 13-17 Nov. 1996; recommends that, at its special session for the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21, the General Assembly give due attention to the follow-up to the World Food Summit Plan of Action; invites the Secretary-General to ensure that the Administrative Committee on Coordination decides on the inter-agency mechanism for the implementation of the World Food Summit Plan of Action and the incorporation of the mechanism into existing arrangements, and to report to the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 1997 in the context of Council resolution 1996/36; requests the Secretary-General to ensure that a coordinated follow-up at the field level to the World Food Summit is undertaken in the context of the resident coordination system; reiterates its invitation to the Director-General of FAO of UN to submit to the General Assembly at its 52nd session, through the Economic and Social Council, a report on the outcome of the World Food Summit.
Action note1996-12-16
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 86th meeting
Meeting record
A/51/PV.86
Agenda information
A/51/251 95b Food and sustainable agricultural development. AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Date[New York] : UN, 3 Feb. 1997.
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2 p.
Notes
Adopted at the 86th plenary meeting, 16 Dec. 1996.