TO:	The Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Finance The Ministry of Education The Ministry of Tourism The Ministry of Public Information The Governor, Central Bank of the Philippines The Commissioner of Customs The Commissioner of Immigration and Deportation The Director, National Media Production Center All Police Forces, Agencies and Local Governments
		in Metropolitan Manila and the Manila International Airport

WHEREAS, the National library, UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines and the Philippine  Library Association, Incorporated (PLAI) are jointly hosting the 46th General Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Federations (IFLA) in Manila from August 18-23, 1980.

WHEREAS, the Association has been established to promote internationally and nationally librarianship, information science and documentation.

WHEREAS, the forthcoming General Conference will bring honor and prestige to the Philippines, it being the  first  time that such conference will be held in Asia.  As all its past Congress had been held in Europe except in 1970 when it was held in Washington D.C. U.S.A.

WHEREAS, hold in the General Conference in Manila will help focus attention on the  development, of information science and technology in the country as well as project the cultural, social, political and economic achievements of the New Society.

NOW,  THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, hereby direct that:


Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred eighty.