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(g) Rural Welfare The Conference—(l) Establishment of a Rural Welfare Division Approves the initial steps taken to carry out the recommendation of the Second Session of the Conference that a Rural Welfare Division should be established, and Considers the projects proposed to be of the type that should be undertaken. 4. CONSTITUTIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND FINANCIAL QUESTIONS (a) Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities The Conference — Recognizing that maximum uniformity is desirable in the privileges and immunities enjoyed by the United Nations and FAO, Requests the Director-General to accept any invitation which may be sent by the UN to attend a conference of specialized agencies and their member nations to consider privileges and immunities for such agencies, and to instruct his representative to seek to ensure that the particular requirements of FAO will be met, whatever form the eventual convention may take. (b) Relations with ICEF The Conference — Welcomes the creation of the International Children's Emergency Fund by the United Nations and urges all members of FAO to support its activities and co-operate in its work. Attaches particular importance to the development of effective schemes for securing rapid expansion of milk consumption by nursing and expectant mothers and young children, for supplementary feeding of children in schools and of adolescents, and regards these measures as the most practical means of improving the nutrition and safeguarding the health of the most vulnerable groups on which the future welfare of the community depends. (c) Relations with United Nations The Conference — Takes note of the report of the Director-General on the relationships between the United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organization ; Approves the policy followed so far of developing suitable relations in the technical and administrative fields in a spirit of reciprocal co-operation; Resolves that in negotiating any supplementary agreement with the United Nations in respect of budgetary and financial questions (as provided in paragraph 2 of Article XIV of the Agreement approved in 1946 and consistent with Article 17, paragraph 3, of the United Nations Charter) the Director-General shall ensure, in consultation with the Committee on Financial Control, that an agreement satisfactory to all parties be drafted; and