Review of the World Food Programme

A/RES/2290(XXII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1968.

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Contributions-in-Kind Food Aid Pledging Conferences

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Establishes for the two years 1969 and 1970 a tar~et for voluntary contributions of $200 million, of which not less than one third should be in cash and services, and urges States Members of the United Nations and members and associate members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to make every effort to ensure the full attainment of the target ;

Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to convene a pledging conference at United Natio~s Headquarters early in 1968 ;

1~ Official Records of the EconOffUc and Social Conti/, Resumed Forty-third Session, Supplement No. 10 (E/4435).

16 Ibid., Forty-third Session, Annexes, agenda items 2 and 13, document E/4378.

17 E/4332.

Urges Governments that have pledged. contributions of commodities or services for the penod 1966- 1968 to make every possible effort to carry over ~nd make available for the period 1969-1970 any portion of such pledges that may remain unused at the end of 1968, and to indicate their readiness to effect such carry-over when announcing pledges at the 1968 pledging conference;

Decides that the following pledging conference, subject to the review provided for in General Assembly resolution 2095 (XX), should be convened, at the latest, early in 1970, at which time Governments would be invited to pledge contributions for I 971 and 1972, with a view to reaching whatever target may be recommended by the General Assembly _an1 the Confe,re_ncr of the Food and Agriculture Orga111zat10n of the lJmted Nations.

8 December 1967.

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