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description: "World Vegetarian Congress 1977 - Agenda for the General Meeting: Agenda of the General Meeting 24TH World Vegetarian Congress of the International Vegetarian Union at New Delhi, India from 18th Nov to 23rd Nov. 1977 BUSINESS SESSIONS AND GENERAL MEETING Tuesday 22nd November 10.15 - 13.00 Member"
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#  World Vegetarian Congress 1977 - Agenda for the General Meeting

![World Vegetarian Congress 1977 - Agenda for the General Meeting](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/congress-wvc77-agenda.png) Agenda of the General Meeting 24TH World Vegetarian Congress of the International Vegetarian Union at New Delhi, India from 18th Nov to 23rd Nov. 1977

BUSINESS SESSIONS AND GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday 22nd November 10.15 - 13.00

Member Society progress Reports and Regional Reports will be read out by a delegate from each affiliated society or failing that by the Hon.General Secretary if a report is at hand. Associate Societies and non-affiliated countries may be asked to give a brief 3 minute outline of vegetarianism in their country if time permits.

Congress participants are also welcome to sit in at the I.V.U. General Meeting but should leave the first 7 rows of seats, counting from the platform, free for officially nominated voting delegates and should not vote themselves. Official Delegates names must be handed in to the Hon.General Secretary, (if not already done so) on headed notepaper and must be in quota with the I.V.U. constitution. Some voting delegates may represent more than one affiliated society but should make this clear at the outset.

AGENDA FOR GENERAL MEETING

1\. Welcome from Chairman and reading of greeting.
2\. Apologies for absence.
3\. Minutes of the previous General Meeting in Maine USA, 1975.
4\. Matters arising from above Minutes
5\. General Secretary's and Hon. Treasurers Reports and Regional Secretaries and Treasurer's reports. 6. Election of Officers.
7.Resolution e.g. amendments to the I.V.U. Constitution
8.Venue for the next 25th World Vegetarian Congress

The following officers are eligible for re-election unless otherwise stated:-

President: Dr.Gorgon Latto (U.K.)
Deputy President:- Herr Geo Hiller (W.Germany)

Members of the International Council of IVU:
Executive Vice Presidents (4):- Lic German Alberti V. (Venezuela); Mr H.J.Dinshah (U.S.A.); Dipl.Ing.J.Fleischanderl (Austria); Prof.Scott Nearing (U.S.A.)

Mr W.M.Capper Asst.Hon.Treasurer (N.Ireland); Mrs W.M.Eikeboom-Broekman (Netherlands); Mr C.D.Fettes - Hon.Treasurer (Eire); Miss H.Nixon (UK); Mrs L.Raaf (Lebanon); Mr L.H.van Loon (S.Africa); Miss I Watson (UK).Prof.M.J.Londono (Columbia); Rafael Lazeta (Chile)

Hon. Vice Presidents:-
Australia - Mr C.D.Harding; Canada - Miss R.E.Playle; Germany - Dr.C.A.Skriver; India - Smt.R.Devi Arundale, Smt.M.D.Malemgamvala, Shri S.M.Mehta, Shri V.H.Dalmia, Shri M.Somani, H.H.Satguru Jagjit Singh Ji; Israel - Mr.Alex Hary, Japan - Dr M.Tada; Netherlands - Dr C.Sypkens; New Zealand - Mr G.Hodson; Portugal - Prof.A.M.G. da Costa Cabral; Prof Cervera Cebolla; Sweden Herr G.Hadfors, Switzerland - Dr. rer oec R.Bircher; U.K. - Mr J.N.le Grice; Mr.P.L.Pick; U.S.A. - Dip.Ing.S.H.Linnio, Italy - Dr.Ferdinando Delor; Sri Lanka - Dr.Jaysuria; Spain - Mr.Enrique Bueno

Hon.Secretaries (not for re-election):
Hon.General Secretary - I.V.U. (H.Q.) - Mr.B.J.Gunn-King (Ireland)
Hon.Reg.Secretary for Latin America - Dr.Becerra Limas (Mexico)
Hon.Reg.Sec. for India & The East:- S.M.Mehta & Dr Bhamgara (India)
Hon.Reg.Secretary for N.America:- Mr.Brian Graff (New Jersey-U.S.A.)
Hon.Gen.Sec. for Africa:- Mr.E.P.Morkel (Cape town-S.Africa)

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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