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Article 57 of the Charter of the United Nations provides that specialized agencies established by intergovernmental agreement and having wide international responsibilities as defined in their basic instruments in economic, social, cultural, educational, health, and related fields shall be brought into relationship with the United Nations. Article 63 of the Charter provides that the Economic and Social Council may enter into agreements with any of the agencies referred to in Article 57, defining the terms on which the agency concerned shall be brought into relationship with the United Nations, and specifies that such agreements shall be subject to approval by the General Assembly.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, meeting in its first session in Quebec, Canada, 16 October to 1 November 1945, adopted a resolution stating that, in pursuance of Article XIII of the Constitution of the Food and Agriculture Organization (which provides that the Organization shall constitute a part of any general international organization to which may be entrusted the co-ordination of the activities of international organizations with specialized responsibilities), the Organization should, without prejudice to its purposes and limitations as set out in the Constitution, so order its procedure and practice as to achieve the closest relationship with the United Nations; and that in order to give effect to this provision the Director-General should, with the approval of the Executive Committee, negotiate agreements between the Organization and the United Nations.

The Economic and Social Council, during its first session, in January–February 1946, adopted a resolution establishing a Committee of the Council on Negotiations with Specialized Agencies which was directed to enter into negotiations as early as possible with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, with the approval of the Executive Committee, in March 1946, appointed a negotiating committee to enter into negotiations with the United Nations.