The General Conference also approved agreements between UNESCO and certain international organizations such as the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (the functions of which are to be taken over by UNESCO), the International Bureau of Education, and the International Council of Scientific Unions. (Details of these agreements are given in part II.) In addition the General Conference approved general clauses to be used as a basis for the drafting of agreements with intergovernmental organizations and nongovernmental international organizations. These general clauses will provide uniformity in the relations between UNESCO and the large number of international organizations of one kind or the other which will be drawn into close relationship with it. As regards the relationship of UNESCO with its own member states, no final decision was reached by the General Conference, the whole matter being referred to the Executive Board for recommendation and report. The General Conference did however debate at considerable length such questions as whether possible future relationships between UNESCO and groups within the member states should or should not be routed through the national commissions where they exist. The question of the extent to which UNESCO's communication with the national commissions should be direct or through the respective governments was not determined. The opinions expressed by the General Conference, of which it asked the Executive Board to take note in preparing its report, were these: member states which have not yet established national commissions or national cooperating bodies should be requested to do so; all assistance short of financial aid should be given by the Director General to this end; the national commissions should be kept informed by UNESCO of UNESCO's connections within the country in question and UNESCO should come to an agreement with the national commissions on all general questions. Since the question of relations with the national commissions was referred to the Executive Board too late in the Conference for the careful consideration which the importance of the subject requires, the Board requested the Director General to adopt the policy, until the subject could be properly studied, of communicating with groups within the member states only through the respective governments. It is assumed that this question will be one of the first to be considered at the meeting of the Executive Board in April. APPENDIX 1 List of Member States and Principal Delegates at the First Session of the UNESCO General Conference, Paris, November 19-December 10, 1946 APPENDIX 2 List of Observers: Governments, Intergovernmental Bodies, and Nongovernmental Bodies I. The following eighteen countries sent observers: 1. Argentina 2. Chile 3. Colombia 4. Costa Rica 5. Cuba 6. Guatemala 7. Iceland 8. Iran 9. Iraq 10. Luxembourg 12. Panama 13. Paraguay 14. El Salvador 15. Sweden 17. Uruguay 18. Yugoslavia II. List of observers of intergovernmental organizations: 1. Bureau de l'Union Internationale des Telecommunications 2. Bureau Hydrographique International 3. Bureau International d'Education 4. Bureau International des Poids et Mesures 5. Bureaux Internationaux pour la Protection de la Propriete Industrielle, Litteraire et Artistique 6. Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer 7. International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (I.I.I.C.) 8. International Meteorological Office 9. International Organization for Standardization 10. Pan American Union 11. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration III. List of observers of international nongovernmental organizations: 1. Alliance Internationale des Femmes 2. Archives Internationales de la Danse 3. Associated Country Women of the World 4. Association Internationale des Juristes Democrates 5. Boy Scouts International Bureau 6. Comite d'Entente des Grandes Associations Internationales 7. Comite International d'Iconographie 8. Comite International de l'Organization Scientifique 9. Comite International de Medecine et Pharmacie Militaire 10. Comite Permanent International des Architectes 11. Commission Internationale des Industries Agricoles 12. Conference Permanente des Hautes Etudes Internationales 13. Conference Technique Mondiale 14. Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne 15. Congres Juif Mondial 16. Conseil International des Femmes 17. Council for Education in World Citizenship 18. Federation Internationale des Associations d'Instituteurs 19. Friends World Committee (Quakers) 20. Institut Suisse de Recherches et de Relations Internationales 21. Institute of Pacific Relations 22. International Advisory Folk Dance Council 23. International Association of Cinema Technicians 24. International Associations of University Professors and Lecturers 25. International Auxiliary Language Associations 26. International Committee of Historical Sciences 27. International Cooperative Alliance 28. International Council of Scientific Unions 29. International Federation for Housing and Town Planning 30. International Federation of Secondary Teachers 31. International Federation of University Women 32. International Law Association 33. International Museums Council 34. International Museums Office 35. International P.E.N. Club 36. International Publishers' Congress 37. International School Correspondence 38. International Student Service 39. International Union of Architects 40. International Union of Child Welfare. 41. International Union of Institutes of Archeology, History and History of Art 42. International Union of Students 43. Jeunesse Ouvriere Chretienne 44. League of Red Cross Societies 45. Ligue Suisse pour la Protection de la Nature 46. Mouvement Mondial pour la Paix 47. New Education Fellowship 48. Office Catholique du Cinema 49. Organisation Internationale des Societes de Droits d'Auteurs 50. Pax Romana 51. Peuple et Culture 52. Rotary International 53. Soroptimists International 54. Union Academique Internationale 55. Union Internationale des Auberges pour la Jeunesse 56. Union Internationale des Ligues Feminines Catholiques 57. Union Internationale des Villes et Pouvoirs Locaux 58. World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations 59. World Association of Girl Guides and Scouts 60. World Federation of Democratic Youth 61. World Federation of Scientific Film Associations 62. World Federation of Scientific Workers 63. World Federation of Trade Unions 64. World Federation of United Nations Associations 65. World Medical Association 66. World Organization of Teaching Professions 67. World Student Christian Association 68. World Student Relief 69. World Union of Jewish Students 70. World's Young Women's Christian Associations APPENDIX 3 Participants in the First Session of the UNESCO General Conference1 ARGENTINA Fernando Perrota Minister Plenipotentiary. Jorge A. Cramajo (Alternate Delegate) AUSTRALIA R. C. Mills, O.B.E., LL.M., Head of Delegation Director of the Commonwealth Office of Education. Dr. E. R. Walker Counselor of the Australian Legation in Paris. BELGIUM Herman Gustaaf Vos, Head of Delegation Member of the Belgian Senate since 1935. Present Minister of Education. M. L. Geeraerts Chancery Director (First Class), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Commerce J. Kuypers Secretary General of the Belgian Ministry of Education. Victor Bohet Professor at Liege University since 1932. Head of Mission of Belgian Ministry of Education to London 1945. J. Brachet Professor of Science, Brussels University, and engaged in research in embryology and biochemistry. Marcel Florkin Professor of Medicine at Liege University. Director General of Office de l'Enseignement Superieur et des Sciences. BOLIVIA Adhemar Gehain Bolivian Consul at Brussels. BRAZIL Moniz de Aragao, C.B.E., Head of Delegation Ambassador of Brazil to Great Britain. Miguel Osorio de Almeida Director of the Physiological Section of the Institute Oswaldo Cruz. Member of French Academy of Medicine. Carloz Chagas Filho Professor of Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Rio de Janeiro. Director of the 1 Compiled by the Department of State from the lists of delegates and alternates published in the Journal of the Conference. |