Delegates from nineteen governments including the newest member, Mexico, and observers from six other governments attended a meeting of the International Sugar Council in London on June 26, 1951. The council adopted the report of its Statistical Committee which contained an estimate of the statistical position for the crop year ending August 31, 1951. Governments which had signed the protocol extending the international sugar agreement of 1937 to August 31, 1951 were asked to sign another protocol extending the agreement for one additional year. The new protocol, however, was to contain a provision terminating the protocol if a revised sugar agreement should come into force during the year. Other items dealt with by the council were the budget and administrative matters.