Reply to the 3rd report on the activities of the World Food Programme of the United Nations / FAO
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on 28 January 1970 (24th Sitting) (see Doc. 2717, report of the Committee on Agriculture). Text adopted by the Assembly on 28 January 1970 (24th Sitting).
The Assembly,
1. Having taken note of the third report to the Council of Europe on the activities of the World Food Programme (WFP) ;
2. Recalling its
Recommendation 515 adopted in connection with the presentation of the second report by WFP in January 1968,
3. Notes with satisfaction that the target for voluntary contribution to WFP of $ 200 million for the current two-year period (1969-1970) has been attained and even exceeded, and that this is due to a great extent to substantial contributions of skim milk powder and butter oil made available by the European Economic Community on behalf of its Members ;
4. Welcomes the decision to increase the target for the next pledging period, 1971-1972, to $ 300 million ;
5. Hopes that the flexibility and efficiency that have characterised WFP will be maintained, and underlines the importance of project co-ordination at country and regional level ;
6. While recognising that food aid should not be too institutionalised, approves the principle of longer-term projects, and considers that funds and appropriate commodities should be committed for such periods as are necessary for these projects to be of lasting effect ;
7. Welcomes the efforts made by the organisations of the UN family to co-ordinate their development activities still further at all levels of planning and implementation, and hopes that such efforts will increasingly embrace bilateral development assistance, e.g. through consortia and consultative groups ;
8. Believes that the experience gained by WFP warrants entrusting it with an increasingly important role in the Second UN Development Decade ;
9. Resolves to use its influence :
a to make the activities of WFP better known in national parliaments and constituencies ;
b to ensure that food aid should not detract from governmental efforts to provide development assistance in other forms ;
c to encourage efforts aiming at tailoring such food aid to the needs of recipients.
