The conference also led to the International Sugar Agreement, which seeks to stabilise world sugar prices.

The US insisted that so-called "economic provisions" be removed from the International Sugar Agreement which was currently under renegotiation.

The International Sugar Organization is an intergovernmental organization, based in London, which was established by the International Sugar Agreement of 1968, as the body responsible for administering the Agreement.

Mr. Carter, who became president of the Beet Sugar Association in 1975, was the industry's adviser to the Government during the negotiation of the International Sugar Agreement in the late 1970's.