Programme of Studies on Multilateral Food Aid

Requests the Secretary-General-in co-operation with the Director-General of the Food and Agricnltnre Organization of the United Nations and in consultation with the executive heads of other interested international organizations and programmes, including the Tnternational Bank for Reconstrnction and DevelopmFnt. the Tnternational Monetarv Fund and the General i\greement on Tariffs and Trade, and utilizing the total facilities of the United Nations. including the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the TT nited Nations Development Programme and the \Vnrlcl Food Programme-to examine, with a view to snggesting various alternative types of action and in the c-ontext of the efforts being made in connexion with th<> United Nations Development Decade, the means and policies which would be required for large-scale intFrnational action of a mttltih1teral character, under t lw auspices of the United Nations system, for combating hunger effectively. this comprf'hensive study to he based upon. hnt not necessarily limited to, the proposals already made for adapting the techniques of food aid so :is to benefit developing- rnuntries which are exporters of food-stuffs. as well as those which are importers. and with rlne regard. infer alin. to the issues mentioned in the sixth and eighth preambular paragraphs of the present resolution, especially those relating to the need for financial resources and to the possible rebtionship of this tvpe of action to long-term internationa 1 :1greF- 111ents on stRple food-stuffs:

Requests the Secretary-GenerRl to submit to the General Assemblv :it its t~enty-first session. through the Economic :ind Social Council. a report whic-h wot;ld deal, inter alia. with the :irrangements mRdF for under- "o Official Records of tfre General Assembly, Twrntietli Session, Plrnary Meetin_lls, 1347th meeting, para. 40.