In addition to the outstanding success of the program in helping to build commercial markets for U.S. agricultural exports. the program has played a central role in combatting hunger and malnutrition abroad in supplementing other congressional appropriations for economic development. Under title II of the program hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved through emergency food aid. Most recently millions of refugees were provided urgently demanded food during the India/Pakistan war. and the program now helps supply the acute food needs of the new Bangladesh state. It is then with great pride in the program with its outstanding record of achievement that I ask for the extension of the Public Law 480. Section 812 of the bill provides authority for and recommends that the President initiate a conference of the major grain importing and exporting countries of the world. including the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China. for the purpose of negotiating an agreement to provide for the stability of world trade in grains and a reasonable and deserved margin of security for the people involved in the grain production.
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