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1 is No. VI on the defendants' list of your references:
2 "International conference on nutrition; Final report of
3 the Conference". Do you want to say briefly what the
4 conference was?
5 A. Well, I have referred to it in my statement and also
6 in evidence this morning. About every 20 years the Food
7 and Agriculture Organisation with WHO hold a conference on
8 world nutrition. There was one held in Rome in 1974, for
9 example, which was addressed by Henry Kissinger who
10 declared that by the year 2000 starvation would be an
11 historical problem. I suppose they can be held to be a
12 little optimistic on occasion. This one was in 1992. All
13 UN member states were there except a few which were
14 preoccupied for other reasons. It is held at ministerial
15 level. What that means is that the final statement and
16 the pages you have in front of you are taken from the
17 final report of the conference. The final recommendations
18 are endorsed by all member states present, unless it is
19 stated otherwise. This was not all member states
20 present. I think the relevance of this particular
21 statement is its status.
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23 Q. Do you want to say which page we are particularly looking
24 at?
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think we are looking at a
27 particular page now unless -----
28 A. My Lord, yes, we are. There is just -----
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30 Q. You want to see the endorsement, as it were.
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32 MR. RAMPTON: Can I once again enquire what document is this?
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is what I am looking at.
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36 MR. RAMPTON: I do not have that.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is document 6 on the list.
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40 MR. RAMPTON: I think it is document 6 on the list, but it is
41 nowhere in the bundle of papers.
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43 THE WITNESS: Again -----
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment.
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47 MR. MORRIS: Which particular page?
48 A. It is page 45, paragraph 44 under section 8, the
49 section is called Promoting Appropriate Diets and Healthy
50 Lifestyles, but in addition this paragraph ----
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am sorry, Mr. Cannon, we keep interrupting
53 you. Let me explain to the witness. I am merely
54 explaining so you know where we are. Normally in a case
55 of any complication if documentation is to be put to a
56 witness, it is prepared in bundles, we have page
57 references; you would just either be referred to a page.
58 You might be asked: Is there another question? You would
59 then look in the bundle and you would refer to another
60 page. That has broken down this afternoon. That is why
