The General Assembly,
 
      Recalling its resolutions 1714 (XVI) of 19 December 1961, 2095 (XX) of
20 December 1965 and 3404 (XXX) of 28 November 1975, concerning the
establishment and continuation of the United Nations/Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations World Food Programme, and its resolution
46/22 of 5 December 1991 on the revision of the General Regulations of the
World Food Programme and enlargement of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and
Programmes of the World Food Programme,
 
      Recalling also its resolution 48/162 of 20 December 1993, on further
measures for the restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the
economic, social and related fields,
 
      Having considered Economic and Social Council decision 1995/227 of 6
June 1995 adopted on the recommendation of the Committee on Food Aid Policies
and Programmes of the World Food Programme concerning the governance of the
Programme, the revision of the General Regulations of the World Food
Programme, and the reconstitution of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and
Programmes as the Executive Board of the World Food Programme,
 
      1.    Decides, subject to the concurrence of the Conference of the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, that the Committee on Food
Aid Policies and Programmes shall be reconstituted as the Executive Board of
the World Food Programme, with thirty-six members elected from among the
States Members of the United Nations or the States members of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and that the Economic and
Social Council and the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations shall elect eighteen members each, as set forth in paragraph 2
below;
 
      2.    Decides also that the members of the Executive Board of the World
Food Programme shall be elected on an interim basis for four years from among
the States included in the lists set out in the Basic Texts of the World Food
Programme, in accordance with the following distribution of seats, it being
understood that this allocation of seats creates no precedent for the
composition of other United Nations bodies of a limited membership:
 
      (a)   Nine members from the States included in list A, five members to
be elected by the Economic and Social Council and four by the Council of the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
 
      (b)   Seven members from the States included in list B, four members to
be elected by the Economic and Social Council and three by the Council of the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
 
      (c)   Five members from the States included in list C, two members to be
elected by the Economic and Social Council and three by the Council of the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
 
      (d)   Twelve members from the States included in list D, six members to
be elected by the Economic and Social Council and six by the Council of the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
 
      (e)   Two members from the States included in list E, one member to be
elected by the Economic and Social Council and one by the Council of the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
 
      (f)   One additional member alternating between the States included in
lists B and C, starting with list C, to be elected by the Council of the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
 
      3.    Decides further that the above-mentioned distribution of seats
shall be reviewed within two years after the establishment of the Executive
Board with a view to achieving its final outcome in accordance with paragraphs
25 and 30 and other relevant provisions of General Assembly resolution 48/162;
that the review shall be conducted in parallel by the Assembly and the
Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
taking into account the relevant inputs of the Economic and Social Council and
the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
and that its results shall enter into force on 1 January 2000;
 
      4.    Requests the Economic and Social Council, at its resumed
substantive session of 1995, to elect eighteen members of the Executive Board
for a term beginning on 1 January 1996 in accordance with the following
distribution and terms of office:
 
      (a)   Five members from the States included in list A, two for a term of
three years, one for a term of two years and two for a term of one year;
 
      (b)   Four members from the States included in list B, one for a term of
three years, two for a term of two years and one for a term of one year;
 
      (c)   Two members from the States included in list C, one for a term of
three years and one for a term of one year;
 
      (d)   Six members from the States included in list D, two for a period
of three years, two for a period of two years and two for a period of one
year;
 
      (e)   One member from the States included in list E, for a period of two
years;
 
      5.    Decides that thereafter all members of the Executive Board shall
be elected for a term of three years and requests the Economic and Social
Council to make such provisions as ensure that the terms of office of six
members elected by each of the two Councils shall expire in each calendar
year;
 
      6.    Decides to approve the revised General Regulations of the World
Food Programme contained in annex I of the note by the Secretary-General on
the transformation of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes of the
World Food Programme into an executive board, as endorsed by the Economic and
Social Council in its decision 1995/227 and by the Council of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its one hundred and eighth
session, on 12 June 1995;
 
      7.    Decides, subject to the concurrence of the Conference of the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, that the revised General
Regulations shall enter into force on 1 January 1996.