each session the Interim Commission shall determine the place of its next session.

8. The expenses of the Interim Commission shall be met from funds provided by the United Nations and for this purpose the Interim Commission shall make the necessary arrangements with the appropriate authorities of the United Nations. Should these funds be insufficient, the Interim Commission may accept advances from governments. Such advances may be set off against the contributions of the governments concerned to the Organization.

9. The Executive Secretary shall prepare and the Interim Commission shall review and approve budget estimates:

(a) for the period from the establishment of the Interim Commission until 31 December 1946, and

(b) for subsequent periods as necessary.

10. The Interim Commission shall submit a report of its activities to the Health Assembly at its first session.

11. The Interim Commission shall cease to exist upon resolution of the Health Assembly at its first session, at which time the property and records of the Interim Commission and such of its staff as may be required shall be transferred to the Organization.

12. This Arrangement shall come into force for all signatories on this day's date.

IN FAITH WHEREOF the undersigned representatives, having been duly authorized for that purpose, sign this Arrangement in the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, all texts being equally authentic.

SIGNED in the City of New York this twenty-second day of July 1946.

FOR ARGENTINA:

Alberto Zwanck

FOR AUSTRALIA :

Subject to approval and acceptance by Government of Commonwealth of
Australia

A. H. Tange

FOR THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM :

[Subject to ratification]1

Dr. M. de Laet.

FOR BOLIVIA:

Luis V. Sotelo

1This and similar bracketed phrases are translations.

FOR BRAZIL:

Geraldo de Paula Souza

FOR BYELORUSSIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC:

N. Evstafiev

FOR CANADA:

Brooke Claxton

Brock Chisholm

FOR CHILE:

Julio Bustos

FOR CHINA:
Shen, J. K.

L. Chin Yuan
Szeming Sze.

FOR COLOMBIA:

Carlos Uribe Aguirre.

FOR COSTA RICA:

Jaime Benavides.

FOR CUBA:

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Dr Pedro Nogueira
Victor Santamarina

FOR CZECHOSLOVAKIA :

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Dr Josef Cančik

FOR DENMARK:

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J. Oerskov.

FOR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:

Dr. L. F. Thomen

FOR ECUADOR:

R. Nevarez Vásquez

FOR EGYPT:

Dr. A. T. Choucha

Taha Elsayed Nasr bey

Royal Counsellor

M. S. Abaza

FOR EL SALVADOR:

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Arístides Moll

FOR ETHIOPIA:

G. Tesemma.

FOR FRANCE:

J Parisot

FOR GREECE:

Dr Phokion Kopanaris

FOR GUATEMALA:

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G. Morán

J. A. Muñoz

FOR HAITI:

Rulx León

FOR HONDURAS:

Juan Manuel Fiallos

FOR INDIA:

C. K. Lakshmanan

Lt. Col. I.M.S.

C. Mani

Major I.M.S.

These signatures are appended in agreement with His Majesty's Representative for the exercise of the functions of the Crown in its relations with the Indian States.

FOR IRAN:

Ghasseme Ghani, M.D.
H. Hafezi

FOR IRAQ:

S. Al-Zahawi

Dr. Ihsan Dogramaji

FOR LEBANON:

Georges Hakim

Dr A Makhlouf

FOR LIBERIA:

Joseph Nagbe Togba, M.D.

John B West, M.D.

FOR THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG :

[Subject to ratification]

Dr. M. de Laet.

FOR MEXICO:

Mondragón.

FOR THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS:

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C. van den Berg
C. Banning

W. A. Timmerman

FOR NEW ZEALAND:

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TR Ritchie.

FOR NICARAGUA:

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A. Sevilla-Sacasa

FOR THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY:

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H. Th. Sandberg

FOR PANAMA:

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J. J. Vallarino.

FOR PARAGUAY:

Angel R. Ginés

FOR PERU:

Carlos Enrique Paz Soldán

Alb. Toranzo.

FOR THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES:

H. Lara

Walfrido de Leon

FOR POLAND:

Edward Grzegorzewski

FOR SAUDI ARABIA:

Dr. Yahia Nasri

Dr. Medhat Cheikh-Al-Ardh

FOR SYRIA:

Dr. C. Trefi

FOR TURKEY:

Z. N. Barker

FOR THE UKRAINIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC:

I. Medved

I. I. Kaltchenko

FOR THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS:

F. G. Krotkov

FOR THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA:

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H. S. Gear.

FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND: Melville D. Mackenzie

G. E. Yates

FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

Thomas Parran

Martha M. Eliot

Frank G Boudreau

FOR URUGUAY:

José A. Mora

R Rivero

Carlos M. Barberousse

FOR VENEZUELA:

A Arreaza Guzmán

FOR YUGOSLAVIA:

Dr A. Stampar

FOR AFGHANISTAN:

FOR ALBANIA:

T. Jakova

FOR AUSTRIA:

Dr Marius Kaiser

FOR BULGARIA :

Dr D. P. Orahovatz

FOR EIRE:

John D. MacCormack.