PART ONE

THE UNITED NATIONS

I. Introduction

II. Functions and Organization of the United Nations

III. Political and Security Questions

IV. Economic and Social Questions

V. Questions Concerning Non-Self-Governing Territories

VI. Questions Concerning the International Trusteeship System

VII. Legal Questions

PART Two

THE SPECIALIZED AGENCIES

I. The International Labour Organisation

II. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

III. The United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization

IV. The International Civil Aviation Organization

V. The World Health Organization

VI. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

VII. The International Monetary Fund

VIII. The Universal Postal Union

IX. The International Telecommunication Union

X. The International Refugee Organization

XI. The World Meteorological Organization

XII. The International Trade Organization

XIII. The Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization

Contents

Part One: The United Nations

I. IntroductionPage

A. ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS . . . . . . . . . 3B. THE UNITED NATIONS FROM 1946 TO 1949 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3C. THE UNITED NATIONS DURING 1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

II. Functions and Organization of the United Nations

A. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Functions and Powers; Voting and Procedure; Structure; Session and Officers; Participantsin the General Debate; Matters Considered at the Fifth Session; Constitutional and Organiza-tional Questions, including Elections and Appointments.

Annexes—Delegations; Membership of Subsidiary Bodies; Modifications of the Rules ofProcedure.

B. THE SECURITY COUNCIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Composition; Functions and Powers; Voting and Procedure; Structure; Members andPresidents; Meetings and Matters Considered; Constitutional and Organizational Questions,including Withdrawal of the USSR from Meetings of the Security Council; Annual Report.

Annexes—Representatives and Alternate Representatives; Members of Subsidiary Organs;Modification of the Rules of Procedure.

C. THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Functions and Powers; Voting and Procedure; Structure; Members and Officers; Sessions;Matters Considered by the Council; Constitutional and Organizational Questions, includingWithdrawal of Certain Members from the Council.

Annexes—Delegations; Members of Subsidiary Organs.

D . NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Declaration on Non-Self-Governing Territories; Special Committee on Information Trans-mitted under Article 73 e of the Charter.

Annex—Members of the (1950) Special Committee.

E. THE INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEESHIP SYSTEM AND THE TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL . 102Objectives; Application of the Trusteeship System; Trusteeship Agreements; Composition ofthe Trusteeship Council; Functions and Powers; Voting and Procedure; Structure; Membersand Officers; Sessions and Meetings; Matters Considered by the Trusteeship Council; Constitu-tional and Organizational Questions, including Withdrawal of the USSR from Meetingsof the Council; Annual Reports.

Annexes—Delegations; Membership of Subsidiary Bodies; Modifications of the Rules ofProcedure.

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F. THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Parties to the Statute of the Court; Composition; Jurisdiction; Organization; Procedure;Amendment of the Statute; Members and Officers; Matters before the Court.

Annexes—Examples of Provisions Relating to the Court's Jurisdiction; States AcceptingCompulsory Jurisdiction; Organizations Authorized to Request Advisory Opinions.

G . THE SECRETARIAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125Charter Provisions; The Secretary-General; Administrative Organization; OrganizationalChanges; Administration.

Annex—Principal Members of the United Nations Secretariat.

H . BUDGETARY ARRANGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 9Financial Reports and Accounts; Reports of the Board of Auditors; Supplementary Estimatesfor 1950; Budget for 1951; The Working Capital Fund and Unforeseen and ExtraordinaryExpenses; Scale of Assessments; Expenses of the Permanent Central Opium Board; PermanentFinancial Regulations of the United Nations.

I . ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171United Nations Postal Administration; United Nations Telecommunications System; Head-quarters of the United Nations.

III. Political and Security Questions

A. PROPOSALS FOR STRENGTHENING WORLD PEACE . . . . . . . . . . . 181Uniting for Peace; Peace Through Deeds and Condemnation of Propaganda against Peace;Establishment of a Permanent Commission of Good Offices; Duties of States in the Event ofthe Outbreak of Hostilities; Development of a Twenty-Year Programme for Achieving PeaceThrough the United Nations.

B. THE QUESTION OF KOREA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Complaint of Aggression upon the Republic of Korea before the Security Council; SpecialReport of the United Nations Command: Consideration by the Security Council; Interventionof the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China; Report of the UnitedNations Commission on Korea; The Problem of the Independence of Korea; Relief andRehabilitation; Complaint of Air Bombing of China; Complaint of Armed Invasion of Taiwan(Formosa); Provision of a United Nations Ribbon for Personnel Participating in Korea inDefence of the Charter.

C. THE INDONESIAN QUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301Military Affairs; Western New Guinea; Right of Self-Determination; Admission of Indonesiato Membership in the United Nations.

D. THE INDIA-PAKISTAN QUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304Mediation Efforts by the President of the Security Council; Statements by India and Pakistan;Resolution of 14 March 1950; Report of the United Nations Representative.

E . THE PALESTINE QUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313Complaints to the Security Council of Armistice Violations; Report of the Mixed ArmisticeCommissions; United Nations Conciliation Commission; Palestine Refugees; Question of anInternational Régime for Jerusalem and Protection of the Holy Places.

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F. RELATIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND OF SPECIALIZEDAGENCIES WITH SPAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 1

G. THE QUESTION OF THE DISFOSAL OF FORMER ITALIAN COLONIES . . . . . 345Libya; Eritrea; Procedure to Delimit the Boundaries of the Former Italian Colonies; Adjustmentof the Frontiers between Egypt and Libya.

H. THREATS TO THE POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OFGREECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 7 3

I. THREATS TO THE POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OFCHINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 8 1

J. OBSERVANCE IN BULGARIA, HUNGARY AND ROMANIA OF HUMAN RIGHTS ANDFUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 8 5Including: Advisory Opinion of the Court.

K. TREATMENT OF PEOPLE OF INDIAN ORIGIN IN THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 397

L. THE INTERIM COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . 407

M. ADMISSION OF NEW MEMBERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409Advisory Opinion of the Court; Admission of Indonesia.

N. WORK OF THE MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

O. INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY . . . . . . . . . . . 415

P. THE COMMISSION FOR CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS . . . . . . . . . . 419

Q. REPRESENTATION OF MEMBER STATES IN THE UNITED NATIONS . . . . . . 421Representation of China; Recognition by the United Nations of the Representation of aMember State.

R. MATTERS BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL BUT NOTPLACED ON THE AGENDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436Cases Submitted by Haiti and the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States;Panel for Inquiry and Conciliation; Complaint by the USSR against Greece.

IV. Economic and Social Questions

A. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF UNDER-DEVELOPED AREAS . . . . . . . . 438Financing; Technical Assistance under General Assembly Resolution 200(III); TechnicalAssistance under the Expanded Programme; Training for Apprentices and Technical Workers;Programme for Training in Public Administration under General Assembly Resolution246(III); Other Related Activities, including United Nations Scientific Conference on theConservation and Utilization of Resources, and Availability of Insecticides for the Controlof Malaria.

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B . FULL EMPLOYMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6 6Including: Recommendations of the Group of Experts; Related Activities of the RegionalEconomic Commissions; Publicity for United Nations Action.

C. WORLD ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND TRENDS . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

D. INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY PROBLEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

E. TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483Facilitation of International Movement of Persons and Goods; Problems in the Field ofShipping; Co-ordination of Activities of the Specialized Agencies; Transport Statistics;Applications of Non-Governmental Organizations; International Road Transport; Problemsin the Field of Inland Transport.

F . STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491Improvement of National Statistics; Standard International Trade Classification; Index Numbersof Industrial Production; National Income Statistics; Social Statistics; Indices of Prices; Reportsof Progress in Statistical Development; Statistical Sampling; Statistical Publications of theStatistical Office; Transfer of Responsibility for Economic Statistics under 1928 Convention.

G . FISCAL QUESTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

H. REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMISSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497Economic Commission for Europe (ECE); Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA);Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE).

I . HUMAN RIGHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1 9Draft First International Covenant on Human Rights and Measures of Implementation;Yearbook on Human Rights; Communications; Human Rights Day; Prevention of Discrimina-tion and Protection of Minorities; Trade Union Rights; Forced Labour; Problem of Slavery.

J . FREEDOM OF INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543Draft Convention on Freedom of Information; Adequacy of News and Obstacles to the FreeFlow of Information; Draft International Code of Ethics; Other Recommendations of theSub-Commission.

K. STATUS OF WOMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556Political Rights; Nationality of Married Women; Property Rights of Married Women; Par-ticipation of Women in the Work of the United Nations; Application of Penal Law; Principleof Equal Pay for Equal Work; Technical Assistance Programme; Educational Opportunities;Problem of Greek Mothers; Communications; Plight of Survivors of Concentration Camps.

L . PRISONERS OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

M. REFUGEES AND STATELESS PERSONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569Statelessness; Provisions for the Functioning of the High Commissioner's Office; Problemof Assistance to Refugees.

N . SOCIAL ACTIVITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8 8General Work Programme; Advisory Social Welfare Services; Community, Family and ChildWelfare; Social Rehabilitation of the Handicapped; Housing and Town and Country Planning;Social Defence; Report on the World Social Situation; Social Problems of the AboriginalPopulations and Other Under-Developed Social Groups of the American Continent; Inter-relationship of the Social and Economic Activities of the United Nations.

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O. UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY FUND (UNICEF)AND THE CONTINUING NEEDS OF CHILDREN . . . . . . . . . . . . 611Activities of the Fund during 1950; Long-Term Programmes for Children.

P. POPULATION AND MIGRATION QUESTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622Population and Economic Development of Under-Developed Countries; Development ofPopulation Statistics; Migration.

Q. INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF NARCOTIC DRUGS . . . . . . . . . . . 626Implementation of the International Treaties on Narcotics; Draft Single Convention; InterimAgreement to Limit the Production of Opium to Medical and Scientific Needs; Abolition ofOpium Smoking in the Far East; Methods of Determining the Origin of Opium by Chemicaland Physical Means; Drug Addiction; Question of the Exemption of "Ipécopan" from theProvisions of the International Convention on Narcotic Drugs; Question of Use of Morpho-lylethylmorphine; Offer for Sale in China of Five Hundred Tons of Opium; Report of theUnited Nations Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf; Report of the Permanent CentralOpium Board.

R . CULTURAL ACTIVITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 5Teaching About the United Nations; Research Laboratories; Co-ordination of CartographicServices.

S. RELATIONS WITH AND CO-ORDINATION OF THE SPECIALIZED AGENCIES . . . 639

T. RELATIONS WITH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS . . . . . . . . 656Review of Consultative Arrangements; Admission into the United States of Representativesof Non-Governmental Organizations with Consultative Status; Granting of Consultative Status;Review of Consultative Status; Handbook; Items Submitted by Non-Governmental Organiza-tions in Category A; Written Statements from Consultative Non-Governmental Organizations;Hearings of Non-Governmental Organizations; List of Non-Governmental Organizations withConsultative Status (as of 31 December 1950).

U. IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MATTERS 668

V. Questions Concerning Non-Self-Governing Territories

A. CESSATION OF THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . 674

B. PARTICIPATION IN THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TRANSMITTEDUNDER ARTICLE 73 E OF THE CHARTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

C . VISITS T O NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7 6

D. REVISION OF THE STANDARD FORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677Information Transmitted under the Optional Category of the Standard Form; Informationon Human Rights.

E. EDUCATION IN NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES . . . . . . . . . . 680Eradication of Illiteracy; Language of Instruction; Equal Treatment in Education; Participationof the Inhabitants; Higher Education; Teacher Training.

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F. TRAINING IN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FIELDS . . . . . . . . . . . 686

G. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES . 688

H. DISCUSSION IN THE FOURTH COMMITTEE OF CONDITIONS IN NON-SELF-GOV-ERNING TERRITORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 9 0

I. RESOLUTION ON THE WORK OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE . . . . . . . . 692

J. USE OF COMPARABLE STATISTICAL INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . 693

K. INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE . . . . . . 695

L. FUTURE WORK OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TRANSMITTEDUNDER ARTICLE 73 E OF THE CHARTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

VI. Questions Concerning the International Trusteeship System

A. CONDITIONS IN TRUST TERRITORIES IN WEST AFRICA . . . . . . . . . 699Cameroons, Administered by the United Kingdom; Cameroons, Administered by France;Togoland, Administered by the United Kingdom; Togoland, Administered by France; TheEwe Problem.

B. TRUST TERRITORIES IN EAST AFRICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758Ruanda-Urundi, Administered by Belgium; Tanganyika, Administered by the United Kingdom;Question of the Boundary between Ruanda-Urundi and Tanganyika.

C. TRUST TERRITORIES IN THE PACIFIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768Nauru, Administered by Australia on behalf of Australia, New Zealand and the UnitedKingdom; New Guinea, Administered by Australia; Western Samoa, Administered by NewZealand; Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Administered by the United States.

D. QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRUST TERRITORIES . . . . 783

E. SPECIAL QUESTIONS AFFECTING TRUST TERRITORIES . . . . . . . . . . 794Administrative Unions Affecting Trust Territories; Use of the United Nations Flag in TrustTerritories.

F. SOMALILAND UNDER ITALIAN ADMINISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . 797Drafting of Trusteeship Agreement; Transfer of Provisional Administration to Italy.

G. QUESTION OF SOUTH WEST AFRICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806Including: Advisory Opinion of the Court.

ANNEX—Petitions Examined by the Trusteeship Council during 1950.

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VII. Legal QuestionsPage

A. CASES BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE . . . . . . . . . 837Colombian-Peruvian Asylum Case; Anglo-Norwegian Fisheries Case; Franco-Egyptian Caseconcerning the Protection of French Nationals and Protected Persons in Egypt; Rights ofUnited States Nationals in Morocco.

B. DEVELOPMENT AND CODIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (WORK OF THEINTERNATIONAL L A W COMMISSION) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4 5Review by the Commission of Its Statute; Emoluments; Extension of the Term of Office ofMembers of the Law Commission; Making the Evidence of Customary International Law MoreReadily Available; Formulation of the Nürnberg Principles; International Criminal Juris-diction; Preparation of a Draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind;Progress of Work on Topics Selected for Codification; Miscellaneous Decisions Taken by theCommission at Its Second Session.

C. REPARATION FOR INJURIES INCURRED IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS 863

D. PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF THE UNITED NATIONS . . . . . . . . . 865

E. REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION OF TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS 866

F. PERMANENT MISSIONS TO THE UNITED NATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . 870

G. PERMANENT INVITATION TO THE ARAB LEAGUE TO ATTEND SESSIONS OF THEGENERAL ASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7 0

H. RESERVATIONS TO MULTILATERAL CONVENTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . 873

I. DESIGNATION OF NON-MEMBER STATES IN CONNEXION WITH THE REVISEDGENERAL ACT FOR THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES . 880

J. CONVENTION ON THE DECLARATION OF DEATH OF MISSING PERSONS . . . 880Conference; Convention; Accessions.

Part Two: The Specialized Agencies

I. THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO) . . . . . . . . 887

II. THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (FAO) 900

III. THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZA-TION (UNESCO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1 0

IV. THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION (ICAO) . . . . . 924

V. THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) . . . . . . . . . . . 932

VI. THE INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT(BANK) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4 6

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VII. THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (FUND) . . . . . . . . . . 956

VIII. THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION (UPU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966

IX. THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION (ITU) . . . . . . 973

X. THE INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ORGANIZATION (IRO) . . . . . . . . 982

XI. THE WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (WMO) . . . . . . . 993

XII. THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE ORGANIZATION (ITO) . . . . . . . . . 1001

XIII. THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL MARITIME CONSULTATIVE ORGANIZATION

(IMCO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007

ROSTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1010

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014

SALES AGENTS FOR UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATIONS . . . . . . . . end of volume

INFORMATION CENTRES OF THE UNITED NATIONS . . . . . . . . . end of volume

List of Illustrations and Charts

ORGANS OF THE UNITED NATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

STRUCTURE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

FLAGS OF UNITED NATIONS MEMBERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . follows 18

STRUCTURE OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL . . . . . . . . . . . 58

STRUCTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEESHIP SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . 104

STRUCTURE OF THE SECRETARIAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

MAP: MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS, THEIR DEPENDENCIES AND TRUSTTERRITORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . follows 9 7 8

MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND SPECIALIZED AGENCIES . . . . . . . 1012

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NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION

Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Counciland the Trusteeship Council are referred to in this Yearbook by their official numbers.The number of the session at which the resolution was adopted appears in parentheses:thus, the General Assembly's resolution 377 (V) is its 377th, adopted at its fifth session;the Economic and Social Council's resolution 290(XI) is its 290th, adopted at itseleventh session; and the Trusteeship Council's resolution 293 (VII) is its 293rd, adoptedat its seventh session. The context indicates which organ is referred to. In the case of theSecurity Council, the document citation of the original mimeographed resolution is given.These resolutions are, in general, reproduced in printed form in the Official Records;they are also collected in single mimeographed documents: S/INF/4 covers resolutionsadopted during 1950. In the case of the International Court of Justice, the full citationsare given for documents cited.

In the case of other documents, such as reports and draft resolutions, the originalcitation is given. The basic symbol forms are as follows: General Assembly, A/-; Secur-ity Council, S/-; Economic and Social Council, E/-; Trusteeship Council, T/-. In manyinstances, these documents appear as supplements to the Official Records. As far asdiscussions are concerned, it has been thought sufficient to specify the meetings at whichthe discussions took place, which correspond to the numbers of the verbatim or summaryrecords concerned.

The Official Records of the various organs of the United Nations are available forconsultation at United Nations depository libraries throughout the world and may beobtained from authorized agents for United Nations publications. In addition to theOfficial Records, the United Nations publishes a number of studies, reports and periodi-cals in many fields, including economics, finance, statistics, social welfare, human rights,demography and international law. Reference is made in the text of this Yearbook toa number of these studies and reports issued during 1950. A list of United Nations SalesAgents appears at the end of this volume.

Resolutions quoted in this volume (in smaller type) are given in full and havenot-been abbreviated or paraphrased, except where the context shows this clearly to bethe case.

A list of abbreviations appears on page 1014.

Roster of the United Nations

Members of the United Nations and Specialized Agencies

List of Abbreviations

Index

Sales Agents for United Nations Publications

Information Centres of the United Nations

1010 Yearbook of the United Nations

I. Roster of the United Nations

(As of 31 December 1950)

Afghanistan

Argentina†

Australia†

Belguim†

Bolivia†

Brazil†

Burma

Byelorussian SSR†

Canada†

Chile†

China2†

Colombia†

Costa Rica†

Cuba†

Czechoslovakia†

Denmark†

Dominican Republic†

Ecuador†

Egypt†

El Salvador†

Ethiopia†

France†

Greece†

Guatemala†

Haiti†

Honduras†

Iceland

India†

Indonesia

Iran†

Iraq†

Israel

Lebanon†

Liberia†

Kabul

Buenos Aires

Canberra

Brussels

La Paz

Rio de Janeiro

Rangoon

Minsk

Ottawa

Santiago

Bogotá

San José

Havana

Prague

Copenhagen

Ciudad Trujillo

Quito

Cairo

San Salvador

Addis Ababa

Paris

Athens

Guatemala City

Port-au-Prince

Tegucigalpa

Reykjavik

New Delhi

Jogjakarta

Teheran

Baghdad

Tel Aviv

Beirut

Monrovia

650,000*

2,808,492

7,703,867

30,507

1,069,094

8,516,037

677,544

207,600

9,953,471

741,767

9,736,288

1,138,355

51,011

114,524

127,827

42,932

49,543

275,000

1,000,0004

34,126

1,060,000

550,986

132,562

108,889

27,750

153,226

103,000

3,162,4545

1,491,564

1,630,000

435,223

21,000

9,400

111,370

1950

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1949

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

17 Jan. 1939

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

1950

Midyear 1950

22 May 1950

Midyear 1950

28 Feb. 1950

Midyear 1950

6 Sept. 1950

29 Nov. 1950

Midyear 1950

13 June 1950

1950

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

14 Apr. 1950

7 Aug. 1950

25 June 1950

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

Midyear 1950

1950

12,000,000*

17,195,844

8,185,5391

8,639,369

3,990,200

52,124,000

18,489,354

5,567,976

13,845,000

5,809,236

463,500,000*

11,259,700

794,081

5,347,763

12,556,000

4,271,000

2,121,083

3,076,9333

20,439,000

1,858,000

15,000,000*

41,900,000

7,959,950

2,787,030

3,111,973

1,533,625

143,000

358,000,0005

73,500,0006

18,771,538

5,100,000

1,258,000

1,257,000

1,660,000*

19 Nov. 46

24 Oct. 45

1 Nov. 45

27 Dec. 45

14 Nov. 45

24 Oct. 45

19 Apr. 48

24 Oct. 45

9 Nov. 45

24 Oct. 45

24 Oct. 45

5 Nov. 45

2 Nov. 45

24 Oct. 45

24 Oct. 45

24 Oct. 45

24 Oct. 45

21 Dec. 45

24 Oct. 45

24 Oct. 45

13 Nov. 45

24 Oct. 45

25 Oct. 45

21 Nov. 45

24 Oct. 45

17 Dec. 45

19 Nov. 46

30 Oct. 45

28 Sep. 50

24 Oct. 45

21 Dec. 45

11 May 49

24 Oct. 45

2 Nov. 45

Country CapitalTotal Area

(Square Kilometres)

Latest Population Estimate

Date Total Population

Date ofAdmissionto U. N.

Roster of the United Nations 1011

Luxembourg†

Mexico†

Netherlands†

New Zealand†

Nicaragua†

Norway†

Pakistan

Panama†

Paraguay†

Peru†

Philippines†

Poland†

Saudi Arabia†

Sweden

Syria†

Thailand

Turkey†

Ukranian SSR†

Union of South Africa†

USSR†

United Kingdom†

United States†

Uruguay†

Venezuela†

Yemen

Yugoslavia†

Luxembourg

Mexico City, D.F.

Amsterdam

Wellington

Managua

Oslo

Karachi

Panama City

Asunción

Lima

Manila

Warsaw

Mecca

Stockholm

Damascus

Bangkok

Ankara

Kiev

Pretoria

2,586

1,969,367

33,3287

267,985

148,000

324,222

943,288

74,010

406,752

1,249,049

299,404

311,730

1,546,000*

449,165

187,000

513,521

767,119

576,600

1,223,712

Moscow 22,270,6008

London

Washington, D. C.

Montevideo

Caracas

Sa'ana

Belgrade

243,999

7,827,680

186,926

912,050

195,000

256,880

Midyear

6 June

Midyear

Midyear

31 May

Midyear

28 Feb.

10 Dec.

28 Oct.

Midyear

Midyear

3 Dec.

Midyear

Midyear

Midyear

20 Dec.

17 Jan.

Midyear

Midyear

Midyear

Midyear

Midyear

Midyear

1950

1950

1950

1950

1950

1950

1951

1950

1950

1950

1950

1950

1950

1950

1950

1950

1950

1939

1950

1946

1950

1950

1949

1950

1950

1950

297,313

25,367,802

10,113,527

1,920,192

1,053,189

3,265,000

75,687,000

801,290

1,405,627

8,404,933

19,556,684

24,976,926

6,000,000*

7,016,550

3,227,397

18,313,000

20,934,670

30,960,221

12,320,000

193,000,0008

50,616,000

151,689,000

2,352,500

4,924,1509

4,500,000*

16,250,000

24 Oct.

7 Nov.

10 Dec.

24 Oct.

24 Oct.

27 Nov.

30 Sep.

13 Nov.

24 Oct.

31 Oct.

24 Oct.

24 Oct.

24 Oct.

19 Nov.

24 Oct.

16 Dec.

24 Oct.

24 Oct.

7 Nov.

24 Oct.

24 Oct.

24 Oct.

18 Dec.

15 Nov.

30 Sep.

24 Oct.

45

45

45

45

45

45

47

45

45

45

45

45

45

46

45

46

45

45

45

45

45

45

45

45

47

45

†Original Member of the United Nations.* Approximate figure. Specific data not available.

1 Excluding full-blooded aborigines estimated at47,000 in 1944.

2 As of 31 December 1950, Taipeh, on the island ofTaiwan (Formosa) was the capital of the NationalGovernment of the Republic of China, and Peking,The capital of the Central People's Government of thePeople's Republic of China.

3 Incomplete figure. Data lacking for a few provinces.4 Inhabited and cultivated area: 37,973 sq. km.

5

lation 18.7 millions) and Kashmir-Jammu (area:213,040 sq. km. and population about 4.4 millions).The political status of these areas is not yet determined.

6

7

only.8

9 Excluding tribal Indians estimated at 100,600 in

1941.

Country CapitalTotal Area

(Square Kilometres)

Latest Population Estimate

Date Total Population

Date ofAdmission

to U. N.

Including Hyderabad (area 213,182 sq. km., popu-

Includes Chinese and foreigners. Including inland waters of less than 75 hectares

Including Byelorussian SSR and Ukranian SSR.

AFGHANISTAN

ALBANIA

ARGENTINAAUSTRALIA

AUSTRIA

BELGIUMBOLIVIA

BRAZILBULGARIA

BURMABYELORUSSIAN SSR

*CAMBODIA

CANADA

CEYLONCHILE

CHINA

COLOMBIA

COSTA RICA

CUBA

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

DENMARKDOMINICAN REPUBLIC

ECUADOREGYPT

EL SALVADORETHIOPIAFINLAND

FRANCEGERMANY

GREECE

GUATEMALAHAITI

HONDURASHUNGARY

ICELANDINDIA

INDONESIA

IRAN

IRAQIRELAND

II. Members of the United Nations and Specialized Agencies(As of 31 December 1950)

NOTES(To designate certain of the memberslisted in the following notes, the no-menclature in use by the specializedagency concerned has been used. Thisin some cases differs from the officialnomenclature of the United Nations.)1. Refers to Federal Republic of Ger-many.2. Refers to Republic of Korea.3. Notice of withdrawal from FAO,effective 25 April 1951, was given bythe Government of Poland on 25 April1950.4. Notice of withdrawal from ICAO,effective 31 May 1951, was given bythe Nationalist Government of Chinain 1950.5. WHO has one associate member:Southern Rhodesia.6. The Governments of Bulgaria, Byelo-russian SSR, Ukrainian SSR and USSRin 1949, the Nationalist Governmentof China and the Governments of Al-bania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Polandand Romania in 1950, notified WHOthat they no longer consider themselvesmembers of that organization.7. In addition to members listed, UPU'stotal of 91 members includes: Algeria;Belgian Congo; French Morocco; FrenchOverseas Territories and Territories ad-ministered as such; Indochina; Nether-lands Antilles and Surinam; PortugeseColonies of West Africa; PortugeseColonies of East Africa, Asia andOceania; Spanish Coloniesa; SpanishMoroccoa; Tunisia; United KingdomOverseas Colonies, Protectorates andTerritories under Trusteeship; UnitedStates Possessions.

a Germany and Korea are temporarily

prevented from adhering to the Con-vention and the Agreements of theUnion by virtue of Article XVII ofthe Final Protocol of the UniversalPostal Convention. According to the

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ISRAELITALY

JAPAN

JORDANKOREA*LAOS

LEBANONLIBERIA

LUXEMBOURGMEXICO

MONACONETHERLANDS

NEW ZEALANDNICARAGUA

NORWAYPAKISTANPANAMA

PARAGUAYPERU

PHILIPPINESPOLAND

PORTUGALROMANIA

SAN MARINOSAUDI ARABIA

SPAINSWEDEN

SWITZERLANDSYRIA

THAILANDTURKEY

UKRAINIAN SSRUNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

USSRUNITED KINGDOM

UNITED STATESURUGUAY

VATICAN CITYVENEZUELA*VIETNAM

YEMENYUGOSLAVIA

TOTAL MEMBERS

and the whole of the Spanish Colonies,by a decision of the twelfth UniversalPostal Congress taken pursuant to Gen-eral Assembly resolution 39(I) of12 December 1946, were also tempo-rarily prevented from adhering to theConvention and the Agreements of UPUuntil "that resolution is repealed orbecomes objectless"; in 1950 the Gen-eral Assembly reversed its earlier deci-sion and the three members notifiedtheir adherences effective 8 May 1951.8. In addition to members listed, ITU'stotal of 72 members includes: BelgianCongo and Territory of Ruanda-Urundi;French Protectorates of Morocco andTunisia; Portugese Colonies; SouthernRhodesia; Colonies, Protectorates, Over-seas Territories and Territories underMandate or Trusteeship of the UnitedKingdom; Territories of the UnitedStates. For more complete informationconcerning membership of ITU, seeChapter on International Telecommu-nication Union and Annex I to thatChapter.9. Includes Surinam, Netherlands An-tilles and New Guinea.10. Includes Territory of South WestAfrica.11. In addition to members listed,WMO's total of 55 members includes:Bermuda; British East African Terri-tories and Indian Ocean islands; BritishCentral African Territories; British Ma-layan Territories; British West AfricanTerritories; Cameroons under FrenchTrusteeship; French Equatorial Africa;French Morocco; French Oceania; FrenchSomaliland; French Togoland; FrenchWest Africa; Hong Kong; Indochina;Madagascar; New Caledonia; Tunisia.12. In addition to members listed,ICITO's total of 52 members includesSouthern Rhodesia.13. Indicates States which have becomeParties to the Convention on the IMCO.* Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam com-pose the Associated States of Indochina.See also notes 7 and 11 above.

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BELGRADE

Mr. Milan Hofman, DirectorUnited Nations Information Centre1 Bulevar Crvene ArmijeBelgrade, Yugoslavia

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CAIRO

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COPENHAGEN

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Mrs. Zofia RutkowskaOfficer in ChargeUnited Nations Information Centre

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