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Universal Postal Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The fifteenth Congress of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) met in Vienna from May 29 to July 10, 1964, under the chairmanship of Benno Schaginger of Austria. Nearly 500 delegates representing 122 countries participated in the sessions. On June 5, 1964, however, the Congress approved a resolution expelling South Africa from UPU by a vote of 58 in favor, 30 opposed, with 26 abstentions. During the debate on this question several delegates maintained that the resolution was illegal since a country could only be expelled for violating UPU's regulations. The South African delegate remained in the conference hall after the vote but left at the request of the presiding officer when African delegates demanded his withdrawal.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
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International Organization , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , Fall 1966 , pp. 834 - 842
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1966

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1 Union Postale, October 1964 (89th Year, No. 10), pp. 148A—152A; and ibid., January 1965 (90th Year, No. 1), pp. 1A—30A. For a note concerning the postponement of the fifteenth Congress see International Organization, Summer 1964 (Vol. 18, No. 3), pp. 626–627CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For a summary of the fourteenth Congress see International Organization, Summer 1958 (Vol. 12, No. 3), pp. 390–391CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 06 13–20, 1964 (Vol. 14), p. 20126Google Scholar.

3 The five American seats went to Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. The five Western European seats were filled by Austria, France, West Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Bulgaria, Hungary, and the Soviet Union were selected for the three seats allocated to Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The seven seats for Southeast Europe, South Asia, and Oceania went to India, Kuwait, Malaysia, New Zealand, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey. Ethiopia, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal, the Sudan, Tunisia, and the United Arab Republic filled the seven African seats.

4 Union Postale, May 1964 (89th Year, No. 5), pp. 78A–80A. For a summary of the 1962 and 1963 sessions of the Committee see International Organization, Summer 1964 (Vol. 18, No. 3), p. 627Google Scholar.

5 Union Postale, August 1965 (90th Year, No. 8), pp. 143A–150A.

6 Union Postale, August 1966 (91st Year, No. 8), pp. 112A–119A.

7 Union Postale, November 1964 (89th Year, No. 11), pp. 168A–170A. For a summary of the 1962 and 1963 sessions of the CCPS Management Council see International Organization, Summer 1964 (Vol. 18, No. 3), pp. 627–628Google Scholar.

8 Elected to the Management Council by the Congress of Vienna to serve until the sixteenth Congress were the following 26 states: Australia, Belgium, Cameroun, Colombia, the Congo (Leopoldville), Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, the Soviet Union, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Arab Republic, the United Kingdom, the United States, Upper Volta, West Germany, and Yugoslavia.

9 Union Postale, January 1966 (91st Year, No. 1), pp. 2A–7A.

10 Union Postale, September 1965 (90th Year, No. 9), pp. 165A–166A.

11 Union Postale, January 1966 (91st Year, No. 1), pp. 7A–8A.

12 Union Postale, August 1966 (91st Year, No. 8), pp. 120A–121A.