thing very, very in particular. And we must read from the United Nations' statistics that there is a serious problem ahead of us. Of this somehow I ask a comment and I would like you to consider this issue. We have talked about the women's issue until now, but when we talk about agricultural labor, I think, in Asia most of the agricultural laborers are women, and I think this cannot be separated from the women's issues. And I feel that we have not really had a separate deliberation on the separate topic, but I think women's issues and labor and agriculture sectors are closely related.

THE CHAIRPERSON (Mk. SHIV KHARE):

Thank you very much. It looks to be very stimulating

The one thing which I want to inform you is that in preparation to the World Food Summit, there are several activities which are being conducted by the different UN agencies. There will already be different heads of UN agencies attending. There will already be different heads of states attending, those who will meet under the different avenues like the Organization of African Unity, the Sub-Meeting, and the ASEAN meeting. They have already had some kind of discussion on food security in the past. But the meetings which are going to take place this year in preparation to the World Food Summit, there will be a session which is actually going to be conducted in Asia from 14th to 1 8th of May. This will be the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific. This would also make preparations for the World Food Summit and have discussions on regional and sub-regional dimensions.

And then from 17th to 23rd of June, there would be a technical conference on Plant Genetics and Resources in Germany, and this outcome would also be held into the Summit. Then from 2nd to 6th of July, there will be a Regional Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean Region.

And then there is the Committee on World Food Security that will meet in September 1996. The venue has not yet been decided. That Committee would actually synthesize all the inputs which they have got on regional agreements and regional documents and will put a summation to this summit.

Then the FAO, its own council, the governing council of FAO is going to meet from 1st to 10th of October in Rome and that will review all the arrangements and all the documentation.

And then on 11th and 12th of November, before the World Summit, there will be a Senior Official's meeting which is normally a .... you know, and then they will discuss point by point and word by word all the regulations and all the documents which is to be presented to the summit. And then on 13th to 17th November, there will be a Food Summit in Rome. What we are planning is, to try and see whether we can organize a Parliamentarians' Conference along which is on the 10th and 11th of November so that a parliamentarian delegation could also participate into the World Food Summit and present its point of view. And we are