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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization held its thirty-second session in Paris on December 11 and 12, 1952. The Board agreed on the membership of its permanent commissions on program, finance and external relations and amended its rules of procedure to enlarge its membership from eighteen to 20 members and to raise the number of members necessary to constitute a quorum from ten to eleven. Additional proposed amendments were referred by the Board to its Bureau and Finance Commission for study and report at the next session. After agreeing on the list of member states to be invited to participate in the seminar on audio-visual aids in fundamental education, scheduled to be held in Sicily in September and October 1953, the Board decided that the joint meeting between the Organization of American States and UNESCO to examine the practical application of the terms of the agreement between the two organizations' should be held in Washington from February 4 to 7, 1953. A list of proposed subventions for 1953 and certain proposed transfers within the budget for 1952 were approved, and the Director-General was authorized to advance from the Working Capital Fund not more than $100,000 for implementation of the recommendations of the Headquarters Committee with respect to financing the preparation of plans for the headquarters building.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1953

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References

1 Document 32 EX/SR.l & 2, February 20, 1953, p. 2, 3.

2 Document 32 EX/Decisions, December 30, 1952.

3 Document 33 EX/SR.1–6, June 4, 1953, p. 33. For information on the resignation of Mr. Torres Bodet as Director-General, see In temational Organization, VII, p. 276.

4 Document 33 EX/Decisions, May 7, 1953, p. 3.

5 Ibid., p. 20. In November 1952 the Director-General (Torres Bodet) submitted to the Technical Assistance Board a proposed technical assistance program for UNESCO for 1953 providing for a total expenditure of $5,780,216. However, in December the Board recommended for UNESCO $3,231,000.

6 Document 33 EX/Decisions, May 7, 1953, p. 22.

7 Document 2 XC/5, June 1953, p. 1.

8 See International Organization, VII, p. 276.

9 For information on earlier action respecting permanent headquarters for the organization, see ibid., p. 278.

10 Document 2 XC/3, April 17, 1953.

11 Ibid., p. 2.

12 The Times (London), 04 2, 1953Google Scholar.

13 Documents UNESCO/NS/108, May 7, 1953; UNESCO/NS/109, June 17, 1953; UNESCO/ ED/126, May 14, 1953; and UNESCO/ED/ 128, June 17, 1953.