RESOLUTION
6/2007
Amendment of Article XXII of the FAO Constitution - Authentic Russian Text of the FAO Constitution
THE CONFERENCE
,
Recalling
the decision taken by the First Session of the Conference held in
Quebec City, Canada
, 16 October - 1 November 1945, that the languages of the Organization shall be those adopted by the
United Nations Organization
;
Recalling
further the decision taken at its Special Session held in
Washington, D.C.
, in 1950 where the
Conference
expressed the view that consideration should be given to constitutional amendments to make the text of the Constitution in other languages of the Organization equally authentic;
Considering
that
Belarus
and the
Russian Federation
became Member Nations of the Organization in 2005 and 2006 respectively;
Having considered
that, at its Hundred and Thirty-second Session, held from 18 to 22 June 2007, the
Council
, on the recommendation of the
Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters
, at its Eighty-first session, held on 4 and 5 April 2007, proposed that the Russian text of the Constitution should be equally authoritative with the texts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish, and that the Constitution should be amended to that effect;
1.
Decides
to amend Article XXII of the Constitution to read as follows: “
The Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts of this Constitution shall be equally authoritative
”.
2.
Approves
the authentic Russian text of the Constitution, which is set out in the Annex to document C 2007/18.
(Adopted on
24 November 2007
)