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P U a. I C LAW 87-841-OCT. 18, 1962

[76 STAT.

Public Law 87-841 October 18, 1962 [S. 3679]

World Food Congress. Appropriation for e x p e n s e s.

40 Stat. 1270. 44 USC 111.

AN ACT Authorizing an appropriation to enable the United States to extend an invitation to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to hold a World Food Congress in the United States in 1963.

Whereas the President, in giving his full endorsement and support of the United States Government's food-for-peace program and for the freedom-from-hunger campaign of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, recognized the necessity for emphasizing the willingness of the United States Government to share its food abundance and agricultural knowledge; and Whereas the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations pursuant to a resolution of the tenth F A O Conference authorized the Director-General to make preparations for a World Food Congress in 1963 to mark the midpoint of the five-year worldwide freedom-from-hunger campaign and the twentieth anniversary of the Hot Springs Conference, which resulted in the establishment of the F A O; and Whereas the freedom-from-hunger campaign in the United States is sponsored by the American Freedom From Hunger Foundation, Incorporated, and by the American Food for Peace Council through its Freedom-From-Hunger Committee; and Whereas the United States food-for-peace program and the FAO's freedom-from-hunger campaign are both directed toward the promotion of international cooperation and good will through the alleviation of hunger and malnutrition; and Whereas the Congress will bring together a wide cross section of participants in these activities, review the progress of the campaign, focus attention on current and future problems involved in providing adequate food to meet the needs oi the world's rapidly expanding population, and consider and recommend measures and policies necessary for this purpose; and Whereas it is particularly fitting that the United States of America should cooperate with the F A O to convene a World Food Congress to further the programs of both the food-for-peace program and the freedom-from-hunger campaign; and Whereas the United States of America as the inviting government is expected to provide the conference facilities and to pay certain expenses not borne by the F A O; Therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,, That there is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum not to exceed $300,000 for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to organizing and holding the World Food Congress in the United States. Funds appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall be available for advance contribution or reimbursement to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for certain costs incurred by the Organization in holding the World Food Congress in the United States and shall be available for expenses incurred by the Department of State, on behalf of the United States as host government, including personal services without regard to civil service and classification laws; employment of aliens; printing and binding, without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U.S.C. 11); travel expenses; rent of quarters by contract or otherwise; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and official functions and courtesies.

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