| CL 121/8
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| CL 121/8
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Hundred and Twenty-first Session |
Rome, 30 October - 1 November 2001 |
MEMBERSHIP OF THE WFP EXECUTIVE BOARD |
1. In accordance with Resolution 6/99 adopted by the 30th Session of the FAO Conference on 13 November 1999, the Council is required to elect six members of the WFP Executive Board for a term of office of three years from among FAO Member Nations.
2. For purposes of election to the Board, FAO Member Nations are divided into five separate lists (A, B, C, D and E) as shown in Appendix A to this document.
3. The present composition of the WFP Executive Board is as follows, with the List (as per Appendix A) to which each member belongs indicated in brackets:
| Term of office Expiring | Elected by FAO Council | Elected by ECOSOC |
| 31 December 2001 | Canada (D) China (B) Cuba (C) Germany (D) Lesotho (A) Sudan (A) |
Congo, Rep. of (A) Denmark (D) Haiti (C) Morocco (A) Sweden (D) Yemen (B) |
| 31 December 2002 | Egypt (A)1 Madagascar (A)1 Peru (C) Portugal (D)2 Romania (E) Switzerland (D)3 |
France (D) Hungary (E) Iran, Islamic Republic of (B) Japan (D) Mexico (C) Swaziland (A) |
| 31 December 2003 | Bangladesh (B) El Salvador (C) Iraq (B) Mali (A) Netherlands (D) United States of America (D) |
Denmark (D) India (B) Italy (D) Pakistan (B) Russian Federation (E) Sierra Leone (A) |
| 31 December 2004 | Algeria (A) Cameroon (A) Cuba (C) Iraq (B) |
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4. The Council will therefore be required to elect six members, for a term of office expiring on 31 December 2004 to replace the ones whose terms end on 31 December 2001, i.e. Canada (D); China (B); Cuba (C); Germany (D); Lesotho (A); Sudan (A).
5. It should be recalled that the Council at its Hundred and Nineteenth Session agreed that, after Spain had stood down on 31 December 2000, it would be replaced by Portugal for the year 2001 and that the replacement of this country for the year 2002 be communicated before the Hundred and Twenty-second Session of the Council.
6. Outgoing members are eligible for re-election.
7. A nomination form is given in Appendix B to this document, and the deadline for submission of nominations to the Secretary General of the Council is 12.00 hours on Monday, 12 November 2001.
1. DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
States: 134
WFP Executive Board Seats: 20 (ten each to be elected by the FAO Council and the ECOSOC of the United Nations) plus 1 seat to be elected by the FAO Council that will rotate between the States included in List A (2000-2002), List B (2003-2005), List A (2006-2008) and List C (2009-2011).
The 20 seats will be distributed on the following basis:
List A
States: 53
WFP Executive Board Seats: 8 (four (or five) to be elected by the FAO Council and four by the ECOSOC of the United Nations)
| Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Rep. of Côte d'Ivoire Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea |
Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia |
Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania, United Rep. of Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe |
List B
States: 48
WFP Executive Board Seats: 7 (three (or four) to be elected by the FAO Council and four by the ECOSOC of the United Nations).
| Afghanistan Azerbaijan Bangladesh Bahrain Bhutan Cambodia China Cook Islands Democratic People's Republic of Korea Fiji India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq Jordan |
Kazakhstan Kiribati Korea, Republic of Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Marshall Islands Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Niue Oman Pakistan |
Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Qatar Samoa Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Tonga Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Vanuatu Viet Nam Yemen |
Applicant for membership in FAO: Nauru
List C
States: 33
WFP Executive Board Seats: 5 (three (or four) to be elected by the FAO Council and two by the ECOSOC of the United Nations)
| Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba |
Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico |
Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela |
2. ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
States: 46
WFP Executive Board Seats: 15 (seven to be elected by the FAO Council and eight by the ECOSOC of the United Nations)
The 15 seats will be distributed on the following basis:
List D
States: 28
WFP Executive Board Seats: 12 (six each to be elected by the FAO Council and the ECOSOC of the United Nations)
| Australia Austria Belgium Canada Cyprus Denmark Finland France Germany |
Greece Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Luxembourg Malta Netherlands New Zealand |
Norway Portugal San Marino Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom United States of America |
List E
States: 17
WFP Executive Board Seats: 3 (one to be elected by the FAO Council and two by the ECOSOC of the United Nations)
| Albania Armenia Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic |
Estonia Georgia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Moldova Poland |
Romania Slovakia Slovenia The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
Applicant for membership in FAO: Yugoslavia
To be submitted by 12.00 hours on Monday 12 November 2001 |
Date: ..................................... TO: Secretary-General of the Conference and Council
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| The Delegate of
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(FAO Member Nation) (Signature) ....................................................................................................... |
| wishes to nominate for List5
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| for election to a seat on the WFP Executive Board for the term of office 1 January 2002-31 December 2004.
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| The Delegate of
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| (Signature)
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| accepts this nomination. |
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1 One of these seats rotates between the States in
List A (2000-2002), List B (2003-2005), List A (2006-2008) and
List C (2009-2011).
2 Replaced Spain for the year 2001.
3 Replaced Australia (as agreed by the 119th Session of the Council, 20-25 November 2000).
4 Listings include all FAO Member Nations as at August 2001.
5 Insert A, B, C or D as appropriate. Seats to be
filled 2002-2004 are: 2 from List A, 1 from List B, 1 from List C and
2 from List D.
