WHEREAS, the Sixth Far East Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand on March 10-22, 1968, accepted the invitation of the Philippine Government through its delegation to meet in the Philippines in 1970, with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines serving as host country to the First Far East Regional Conference on Agricultural Credit and Cooperatives.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the power ™s vested in me by law, do hereby create an Executive Committee for the First Far East Conference on Agricultural Credit and Cooperatives composed of the following:

1.	Honesto O. Francisco
	Director, Dept. of Rural Banks
	Central Bank of the Philippines .......................................................................................................................	Chairman
2.	Emilio P. Salvatierra
	Manager, Agricultural Department
	Development Bank of the Philippines ...............................................................................................................	Member
3.	Nicolas S. Fernandez
	Vice-President, Philippine National Bank ..........................................................................................................	Member
4.	Mariano E. Gimenez
	Assistant Director, Dept. of Rural Banks
	Central Bank of the Philippines .........................................................................................................................	Member
5.	Acado Lansang
	Assistant Administrator, Agricultural Credit Administration ................................................................................	Member
6.	Romeo M. Liamzon
	Director, Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines ........................................................................................	Member
7.	Cesar S. Arnaldo
	President, Rural Bankers of the Philippines ...........................................................................................................	Member
8.	Solomon G. Cabrera
	Manager, Credit and Cooperative Department
	Agricultural Credit Administration	Member
9.	Francisco Saguiguit
	Commissioner, Agricultural Productivity Commission ....................................................................................................................	Member
10.	Rafaelita Soriano
	Assistant Secretary, U.N. Affairs and International Conferences, Department of Foreign Affairs .......................................................	Member
11.	Vicente U. Quintana
	Director, Agricultural Credit and Cooperatives Institute, University of the Philippines ...............................................................	Member

The Committee shall be responsible for the planning, organizing, directing and coordinating of all activities connector with the conference.

The Committee shall meet at the call of the Chairman and for the purpose of discharging its functions, may create sub-committees as may be necessary.

The Committee is hereby authorized to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government, including government owned or controlled corporations, for assistance as it may need in discharging its functions.

Done in the City of Manila, this 22nd day of February in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty nine.


By the President:

(Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS
Executive Secretary