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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1205 |
The Minister of Finance
The Minister of Agriculture
The Minister of Trade and Industry
The Minister of Tourism
The Minister of Energy
The Director-General of NEDA
The Director-General of the Budget and Management
The Administrator of the National Food Authority
Creation of the Philippine Host Committee for the Group of 77 Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries (ECDC) Meeting of Experts on Food Security Reserve Scheme, and the First Meeting of the ECDC Intergovernmental Follow-up and Coordination Committee on mid-1982, Manila.
WHEREAS, the Foreign Ministers of the Group of 77 in 1980 decided to convene the High Level Conference on Economic Co-operation among Developing Countries (ECDC) in Caracas on 13 — 19 May 1981;
WHEREAS, this High Level Conference decided to expand ECDC to include cooperation in the area of food and agriculture in view of the critical food situation facing developing countries and a lack of assured sources of food supply from developed countries;
WHEREAS, the Conference recommended, inter alia that urgent and concrete measures should be taken to make full use of potential production capacities of developing countries with a view of accelerating food production and attaining national and collective self- reliance; that a scheme for acquiring and maintaining food reserves should be established; and that a group of experts should be convened to prepare a project on a scheme for acquiring and maintaining food reserves;
WHEREAS, the Conference decided to establish the Intergovernmental Follow-up and Coordination Committee as the mechanism for coordination, monitoring follow-up actions, and evaluation of the Caracas Programme of Action.
WHEREAS, the Foreign Ministers of the Group of 77 during its September 1981 annual meeting in New York accepted the offer of the Philippines to host the first sectoral meeting on agriculture; meeting of group of experts on food security reserves scheme; and on December 1981 accepted again the Philippine offer to host the First Meeting of the ECDC Intergovernmental Follow-up and Coordination Committee;
WHEREAS, the Philippines is totally committed to ECDC;
WHEREAS, the hosting of these Meetings shall serve as the first concrete follow-through action of the Philippines in the spirit of the Cancun Summit;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order and direct the following:
1.
The abovementioned officials shall constitute themselves into a Host
Committee for the Group of 77 ECDC Meeting on Experts on Food Security
Reserves Scheme and the First Intergovernmental Follow-up and
Coordination Committee with the Minister for Foreign Affairs as
Chairman, the Minister of Finance as Co-Chairman, the Minister of
Agriculture as Vice-Chairman and the Minister of Trade and Industry as
Co-Vice-Chairman and the others as members.
2. The Host
Committee shall prepare the groundwork and preparations for the hosting
of the Meetings and shall call upon the assistance of other officials
and agencies of government and the private sector including
non-governmental organizations concerned with convention matters, food
production, trade, technology transfer, and finance to ensure the
successful convening of the Meeting.
3. The Host
Committee shall organize working groups to ensure smooth implementation
of its works and decisions, including a Group on Substantive Matters
for agriculture. The ECDC Committee on Substantive Matters of the
Cabinet Council on ECDC and the Group on Substantive Matters for
Agriculture will formulate the Philippine positions on the various
agenda items of the Meetings and assist in the preparation of working
documents and the final report of the Meetings, respectively.
4. An
organizing Secretariat is hereby created to serve as the support staff
of the Host Committee and the Meeting with the Assistant Minister for
United Nations and International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, as Secretary- General and the Assistant Minister for
Agriculture and the Assistant Minister for Trade and Industry as Deputy
Secretaries-General.
5. The
Minister of Tourism shall take charge of providing hospitality
functions including tours and hotel accommodations for the delegates.
6. The
Director-General of the Budget and Management is hereby directed to
release the amount of Twelve Million Five Hundred Seventy Eight
Thousand Pesos (P12,578,000.00) from the International Commitment Fund
for the financial requirements of the Host Committee and the Organizing
Secretariat.
For immediate implementation.
Done in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-two.
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