CREATING THE NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE ASIA AND PACIFIC MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE IN PREPARATION FOR THE WORLD SUMMIT FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

WHEREAS, the United Nations General
Assembly, through Resolution 47192, decided to convene a World Summit for
Social Development at the level of heads of State or Government to be held in
1995;

WHEREAS, the Philippines
supports the convening of the World Summit for Social Development as an effort
to develop an integrated global response to the universal human aspirations for
peace, progress, and justice;

WHEREAS, the Philippines
believes that the preparatory process for the Summit and the Summit itself will
provide a valuable opportunity to promote a better understanding of the core
issues to be addressed by the summit, namely: 1) the enhancement of social
integration, particularly groups; 2) alleviation and reduction of poverty; and
3) expansion of productive employment, as well as an opportunity to identify
the most appropriate policy responses, at the national, regional and
international levels;

WHEREAS, the Philippines offered
during the last General Assembly Session to host the Asian Regional Meeting on
Social Development, preparatory to the World Summit,

WHEREAS, the Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has approved the proposal of the
Philippines to host the Meeting, which enables the Philippine Government to
undertake such preparations as are necessary to ensure the successful holding
of the conference in Manila in 1994;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V.
RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by
law, do hereby create the National Organizing Committee for the Asia and
Pacific Ministerial Conference in Preparation for the World Summit for Social
Development, hereinafter referred to as the Committee.

The Committee shall be chaired
by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and the
Vice-chairpersons shall be drawn from the Department of Social Welfare and
Development and from the Department of Foreign Affairs. The member of the
Committee shall be the heads of the following agencies:

Office of the President

Presidential Management Staff

Office of the Press Secretary

Department of Budget and
Management

Department of Tourism –
Philippine Convention and Visitors Corporation

Department of the Interior and
Local Government

Department of Transportation and
Communications

Department of Public Works and
Highways

Department of Education, Culture
and Sports

Department of Labor and
Employment

Department of Health

The Presidential Commission to
Fight Poverty

The Presidential Commission on
Countryside Development

Congress of the Philippines

National Commission on the Role
of Filipino Women

National Council on Social
Development

One representative from the
Indigenous Community

One Adviser who shall be
appointed by the President

The Department Secretaries and
Executive Director of the members of the Committee may designate their respective
permanent representative to the Committee in case of their inability to
personally participate in the work of the Committee.

The Executive Committee shall be
composed of the following agencies/organizations:

Office of the President

National Economic and
Development Authority

Department of Social Welfare and
Development

Department of Foreign Affairs

National Council for Social
Development

Department of Budget and
Management

Department of Education, Culture
and Sports

Department of Health

Philippine Airlines

The Executive Committee is
empowered to create other necessary Subcommittees and to call upon all other
government, non-government and private agencies and individuals concerned to
assist the Committee in its tasks.

Such amounts as may be necessary
for the operation of the Committee, its Secretariat and Sub-Committees, and the
holding of the conference shall be included in the International Commitments
Funds portion of the FY-1994 budget.

This Administrative Order shall
take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 27th day of January in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety-four.

(Sgd.) FIDEL
V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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