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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 497 - CREATING
COMMITTEES FOR THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON
TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (UNCTAD V)
WHEREAS,
the Philippine Government during the Fourth Session of the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD IV) in Nairobi,
Kenya, offered to host the Fifth Session of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD V) to be held in Manila on
3 May — 1 June 1979, which offer was accepted by the UNCTAD Trade and
Development Board at its seventeenth session and approved by the United
Nations General Assembly at its thirty-second session last
year;
WHEREAS, the Philippine Government attaches great importance to the
Conference which will consider vital questions of trade and development
affecting particularly the developing countries;
WHEREAS, it is extremely important that such session of considerable
magnitude and significance be efficiently organized and that all
governmental and non-governmental agencies concerned should cooperate
to ensure its success;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by law do hereby order and
establish the following Committees that will take charge of the
substantive and physical preparations for the Fifth Session of the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to the end that the
session can bring the desired results to the country and the
international community;
1)
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs shall be the Chairman, the Secretary
of Trade as Co-Chairman, and the Secretary of Finance as Vice-Chairman
and the Secretary of Economic Planning as Co-Vice-Chairman. The members
of the Committee shall be the Secretary of Industry, Secretary of
Agriculture, Secretary of Natural Resources, the Secretary of Social
Services and Development, the Secretary of Tourism, Secretary of Public
Information, the Governor of the Central Bank, and the President of the
Philippine National Bank.
2)
The Committee shall be in charge of preparation for conference
facilities and services. The Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs shall be
the Chairman, the Undersecretary of Trade as Co-Chairman, and the
Assistant Secretary for United Nations Affairs and International
Conferences, Department of Foreign Affairs, as Vice-Chairman. The
Representatives of the Departments of Finance, Economic Planning,
Tourism, Public Works, Industry, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and
Public Information, and of the Central Bank, Philippine National Bank,
Budget Commission, Immigration Commission, Metro-Manila Commission, the
Presidential Security Command, and the National Media Production
Center, shall serve as members of this Committee.
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs shall establish a system of per diems
and allowances, for secretariat and other service.
The Chairman of each Committee is hereby empowered to request any
agency of the Philippine Government to assist in the discharge of the
Committees duties and responsibilities and to designate such personnel,
including consultants, it may require for the purpose.
The Budget Commission is hereby directed to appropriate and release the
amount of P17,550.00 for the financial and operational requirements of
the Committees from the Special Activities Fund for 1978.
This Order shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 31st day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-eight.
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