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N A T I O N S E D U C A T I O N A L , S C I E N T I F I C A N D C U L T U R A L O R G A N I Z A T I O N

EXECUTIVE BOARD EXSeventy-eighth Session 78 EX/Decisions

PARIS, 17 July 1968

RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS ADOPTED BY THEEXECUTIVE BOARD AT ITS 78TH SESSION

(Paris, 13 May - 21 June 1968)

Present:

Chairman of theGeneral Conference: Professor Bedrettin Tuncel

Chairmen: H .E . Dr. Atilio Dell’ Oro Maini (Argentina)H .E . Mr. William A. Eteki-Mboumoua (Cameroon)

Vice-Chairmen: H .E. Mr. William A. Eteki-Mboumoua (Cameroon)Dr. Magda Joboru (Hungary)H .E. Mr. Gian Franco Pompei (Italy)H .E . Mr. Djahanguir Tafazoli (Iran)

Members : Dr. Moshe Avidor (Israel), H .E . Mr. Amadou Hampate Ba (Mali),Mr. Pitty Paul Banda (Zambia), H.E. Mr. Bernard Barbey (Switzer-land), The Hon. William Benton (United States of America), H.E.Professor Paulo E. de Berredo Carneiro (Brazil), Professor JorgeCash (Chile), Mr. Samuel J. Cookey (Nigeria). Mr. Bernard B .Dadié (Ivory Coast), Mr. Etienne Dennery (France), Dr. Ilmo Hela(Finland), Dr. Bernard J.E.M. de Hoog (Netherlands), Mr. PremN. Kirpal (India), H.E. Dr. Enrique Macaya-Lahmann (Costa Rica),H .E , Mr. Amadou-Mahtar M’ Bow (Senegal), H .E . Dr. Hans-Joachimvon Merkatz, then Dr. Hans Reimers (Federal Republic of Germany),H .E. Mr. Daniel Mfinanga (United Republic of Tanzania), H .E . Dr.Sarwat Okasha (United Arab Republic), Professor Andre Otetea(Romania), Dr. Fuad Sarruf (Lebanon), Dame Mary Guillan Smieton(United Kingdom), Professor Vadim Sobakin (Union of Soviet SocialistRepublics), H.E. Mr. Tatsuo Suyama (Japan), Professor Otilia A. deTejeira (Panama), H.E. Mr. Alberto Wagner de Reyna (Peru).

Deputies : Mr. Mordechai Avida, Mrs. Miriam Lambert, Mr. Michael F.Doron, for Dr. Moshe Avidor (Israel); Mr. Ahmadou Dicko for H .E.Mr. Amadou Hampate Ba (Mali); Mr. François de Ziegler, Mr.Charles Hummel and Professor Robert Dottrens for H .E . Mr.Bernard Barbey (Switzerland); H . E . Mr. Robert H. B. Wade, Mr.Rupert Prohme, Mr. Pierre Graham and Miss Annis Sandvos forThe Hon. William Benton (United States of America); H.E . Mr.Carlos Chagas and Mrs. Lourdes de Vincenzi for H.E. ProfessorPaulo E . de Berredo Carneiro (Brazil); Dr. Diego Valenzuela forProfessor Jorge Cash (Chile); Mr. F .E . Archibong and Mr. AdemolaAdeleye for Mr. Samuel J . Cookey (Nigeria); Mr. Jean Fernand-Laurent,

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Mr. Pierre Grenier, Mr. Yves Brunsvick and Mrs. JacquelineKatlama,for Mr. Etienne Dennery (France); Mr. Gaspard Towo-Atangana for H .E. Mr. William A. Eteki-Mboumoua (Cameroon);Mr. Paavo Rantanen for Dr. Ilmo Hela (Finland); H .E. Mr. Sadi deCorter and Mr. Georges Strasser for Dr, Bernard J.E .M. de Hoog(Netherlands), Mrs. Edit Konrad for Dr. Magda Joboru (Hungary);Mr. Emmanuel Pouchpa Dass for Mr. Prem N. Kirpal (India); Mrs.Iris Leiva Canales de Billault for H.E. Dr. Enrique Macaya-Lahmann(Costa Rica); Mr. Blaise Senghor for H .E . Mr. Amadou-MahtarM’ Bow (Senegal); Dr. Hanns-Erich Haack and Dr. Helgard Plankenfor H .E . Dr. Hans-Joachim von Merkatz, then Dr. Hans Reimer(Federal Republic of Germany); Mr. Mathew G . Kayuza for H .E . Mr.Daniel Mfinanga (United Republic of Tanzania); Dr. Salama Hammadfor H .E . Dr. Sarwat Okasha (United Arab Republic); H .E. ProfessorValentin Lipatti for Professor Andre Otetea (Romania); H .E . Mr.Giorgio Ciraolo, Professor Maria Luisa Paronetto Valier and Mr.Vincenzo Bagli for H .E. Mr. Gian Franco Pompei (Italy); H .E. Mr.Boutros Dib and Mr. Salah Stetie for Dr. Fuad Sarruf (Lebanon); Mr.Leonard C J. Martin, Miss Shirley Guiton, Mr. A. Barry Cozens,Mr. James A. Burgess and Mr. Kenneth D. Law for Dame MaryGuillan Smieton (United Kingdom); Mr. Mitrofan P. Fedorin, Mr.Gennady A. Mozhaev, Mr. Nikolai M. Kanaev, Mr. Emmanuil. M.Egiazarov and Mr. Petr I. Pronigevfor Professor Vadim K. Sobakin(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); H .E . Mr. Yukihisa Tamura forH .E. Mr. Tatsuo Suyama (Japan); Mr. Hassan Saffari and Mrs. KokabSuratgar-Saffari for H .E . Mr. Djahanguir Tafazoli (Iran); Mr. JavierRomero for H.E. Mr. Alberto Wagner de Reyna (Peru)

Representativesand observers: United Nations :

Mr. Albert DollingerMr. William Gibson-ParkerMr. Luc Van BellinghenMr. Jacques BauchereMr. Waclaw Micuta (United Nations Development Programme)Mr. Jean V .E. Guibbert (United Nations Children’s Fund)

Joint Inspection Unit of the Organizations of the United NationsSystem:

H .E . Mr. Lucia Garcia del SolarInternational Labour Organisation:

Mrs. Leon JouhauxMr. J.H. Lasserre BigorryMr. Jean-Jacques Chevron

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development:Mr. Fritz Steuber

World Meteorological OrganizationMr. Kaare Langlo

International Bureau of EducationProfessor Laurent PauliProfessor Robert Dottrens

Organization of American States:Dr. Raul C. Migone

Council of Europe:Mr. Sandro Squartini

Ibero-American Bureau of Education:Mr. Manuel Sito Alba

League of Arab States:Mr. Ramses ChaffeyMr. Ali Mehrez

International Organization of Legal Metrology:Mr. E. W. Allwright



Organization of Central American States:H .E. Mr, Antonio Salazar

Secretariat: Mr. René Maheu (Director-General), Mr. Malcolm S. Adiseshiah(Deputy Director-General), Mr. John E. Fobes (Assistant Director-General), Mr. Alexei Matveyev (Assistant Director-General), Mr.Tor Gjesdal (Assistant Director-General), Mr. Mahdi Elmandjra(Assistant Director-General), Mr. Hanna Saba (Assistant Director-General), Mr. Carlos Flexa Ribeiro (Assistant Director-General),Mr. Pierre H. Coeytaux (Secretary of the Executive Board)



CONTENTS

ITEM 2. Approval of the Summary Records of the 77th session . . . . . . . .

ITEM 3. Methods of work of the Organization . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . .

3.1 Report of the Special Committee of the ExecutiveBoard (78 EX/2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

ITEM 1. Adoption of the Agenda , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . .

1.1 Resignation and replacement of a member of theExecutive Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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3.2 Proposal concerning the establishment of an AdvisoryCouncil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

ITEM 4. Execution of the programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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4.3.1

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4.4.3

4.5

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Reports by the Director-General on the activitiesof the Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Printed report for 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Oral report for the period from 1 January 1968 to the openingof the 78th session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Implementation of the recommendation concerning theStatus of Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Voluntary contributions for the long-term financing ofthe International Institute for Educational Planning . . . . . .

Invitations to the Conference on Education and Scientificand Technical Training in relation to Development inAfrica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Natural sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

European co-operation in the field of fundamental biology . . .

Social sciences, human sciences and culture . . . . . . . . .

Implementation of the Convention on the Protection ofCultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict . . . . . . .

International Campaign for Florence and Venice . . . . . . .

Report on the possibility of drafting a Convention concerningthe illicit import, export and transfer of ownership ofcultural property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Study of the feasibility of launching a pilot project on theuse of satellite communication for education and economicdevelopment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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4.5.2 International standardization of library statistics:proposal for international regulations . . . . . . . . . . . .

ITEM 5. Preparation of the Draft Programme and Budgetfor 1969-1970. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5.1 Examination of the Draft Programme and Budget for1969-l970 and recommendations thereon by theExecutive Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

ITEM 6. General Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6.1 Preparation of the provisional agenda of the fifteenthsession of the General Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6.2 Organization of the work of the fifteenth session of theGeneral Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6.3 Invitations to the fifteenth session of the General Conference . .

6.4 Report of the Executive Board on its own activities . . . . . .

ITEM 7. Relations with international organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Recent decisions of the organizations of the UnitedNations system of interest to Unesco . . . . . . . . . . . .

Co-operation with the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Co-operation with FAO and ILO in the field of agriculturaleducation, science and training . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Co-operation with the United Nations Relief andWorks Agency (UNRWA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7.5 Co-operation with IBE . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7.6 Draft agreement with the Organization of African Unity (OAU) . .

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7.97.10

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Draft agreement with the Joint Afro-Malagasy Organization (OCAM)Transfer to Unesco of certain responsibilities and assets ofthe International Relief Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Classification of international non-governmental organizations .Report by the Director-General on the statutes of the inter-national non-government organizations in categories A andB particularly in regard to arbitration clauses . . . . . . . .Subvention for the International Association of Art. . . . . . .Co-operation with the African Development Bank . . . . . . .

ITEM 8. Administrative and financial question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8.1 Acceptance of donations and special contributions . . . . . . .

8.2 Increases in salaries, allowances, pension contributionsand other unforeseen expenses which have arisen or mayarise during 1967-1968 and their financing . . . . . . . . . .

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8.3 Progress report on the trends of expenditure in 1967 . . . .

8.4 Level of the Working Capital Fund . . . . . . . . . . . .

8.5 Consultations regarding appointments to the Secretariat:general appointments policy and structure of the Secretariat(Rule 54(3) of the Rules of Procedure of the Board) . . . . .

8.6 Remuneration of personnel . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . .

8.7 Recruitment of field staff . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8.8 Briefing and in-service training of staff , . . . . . . . . .

8.9 Regulations of the Unesco Staff Savings and Loan Service , . .

ITEM 9. Other business . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . .

9.1 Time-table of sessions and meetings of the Board’s subsidiarybodies in 1968 . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . .

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ITEM 1. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA (78 EX/l Rev.)

The Executive Board approved the Agenda contained in document 78 EX/l Rev.,with the addition of item 1 .l below. It decided to refer the following items ofthe Agenda to the Commissions:

1. To the Programme and External Relations Commission, items 4.1.1, 4.2.1,4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.3.1, 4.4.3, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 5.1(Preparatory study of Part IIof document 15 C/5), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.10, 7.11 and 7.12.

2. To the Finance and Administrative Commission, items 4.1 .l, 5 .l (Study of thefinancial and administrative aspects of document 15 C/51, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4,8.6, 8.7, 8.8 and 8.9.

(78 EX/SR.l, 2, 31)

1 .l Resignation and replacement of a member of the Executive Board (78 EX/NOM/l).

The Executive Board accepted the resignation of H .E . Dr. Hans Joachim vonMerkatz (Federal Republic of Germany) and, pursuant to Article V.4 of the Consti-tution, appointed Dr. Hans Reimers to replace him until the end of his term of office.

(78 EX/SR.2, 31)

ITEM 2. APPROVAL OF THE SUMMARY RECORDS OF THE 77TH SESSION (77 EX/SR . l-32)

The Executive Board approved the Summary Records of its 77th session.

(78 EX/SR.l,31)

ITEM 3. METHODS OF WORK. OF THE ORGANIZATION

3.1 Report of the Special Committee of the Executive Board (78 EX/2 and Add.).

Composition of the Executive Board

The Executive Board

1. Having examined the study of the composition of the Executive Board made bythe Special Committee in accordance with the decision adopted by the Board atits 77th session (77 EX/Decisions 3.1 .IV) and contained in documents 78 EX/2and 78 EX/2 Add. ,

2. Recommends to the General Conference the adoption of the following resolution:

” The General Conference,

Recalling its resolution 14 C/Resolutions, 7, which states, inter alia that theproblem of the composition of the Executive Board should be reviewed by theBoard so as to ensure an equitable, balanced representation of the various cul-tures and geographical regions, bearing in mind that members elected to theBoard should also be persons with experience and competence in the fields pro-per to Unesco, in accordance with the spirit and letter of Article V.A.2 of theConstitution; bearing in mind, further, that half the number of Member Stateshave never been elected to membership of the Executive Board,

Having studied the report submitted by the Executive Board in compliance withthe above-mentioned resolution, containing its recommendations on the composi-tion of the Executive Board,



Noting with satisfaction that the number of Member States of Unesco has in-creased over the past few years,

Appreciating the need for taking the various measures specified in the presentdecision, which taken together constitute an appropriate means for achievingthe objective of the above-mentioned resolution,

1. Decides

(a) to increase the number of members of the Executive Board to 34;

(b) to change the length of the term of office of members of the ExecutiveBoard, who shall be elected for a term of six years, and shall not beimmediately eligible for a second term, it being understood that thisdecision shall not affect the length of the term of office or the re-eligibility of the present members of the Executive Board under theprovisions of the Constitution in force prior to the adoption of the pres-ent resolution;

(c) to establish for the fifteenth and sixteenth sessions, on a provisionaland experimental basis, a system of electoral groups of Member States,which shall govern only elections to the Executive Board and to ex-amine the results of the new system in the light of the experience ofthese two sessions. The allocation of seats and the composition ofgroups shall be as follows:

Grouping of Member States for the purpose of elections to the Executive Board-

GROUP I (27) - 9 seats

AustraliaAustriaBelgiumCanadaCyprusDenmarkFinlandFranceGermany (Fed. Rep.of)

GROUP II (10) - 3 seats

AlbaniaBulgariaByelorussian SSRCzechoslovakia

GROUP III (23) - 6 seats

ArgentinaBoliviaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican Republic

GreeceIcelandIrelandIsraelItalyLuxembourgMaltaMonacoNetherlands

HungaryPolandRomania

EcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaMexico

New ZealandNorwayPortugalSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTurkeyUnited KingdomUnited States of America

Ukrainian SSRUSSRYugoslavia

NicaraguaPanamaParaguayPeruTrinidad and TobagoUruguayVenezuela



GROUP IV (19) - 5 seats

AfghanistanBurmaCambodiaCeylonChinaIndiaIndonesia

GROUP V (431 - 11 seats

AlgeriaBurundiCameroonCentral African RepublicChadCongo (Brazzaville)Congo (Kinshasa)DahomeyEthiopiaGabonGhanaGuineaIraqIvory CoastJordan

IranJapanKorea (Rep. of)LaosMalaysiaMongolia

NepalPakistanPhilippinesSingaporeThailandViet-Nam (Rep. of )

KenyaKuwaitLebanonLesothoLiberiaLibyaMadagascarMalawiMaliMauritaniaMoroccoNigerNigeriaRwanda

Saudi ArabiaSenegalSierra LeoneSomaliaSudanSyriaTanzaniaTogoTunisiaUgandaUnited Arab RepublicUpper VoltaYemenZambia

Total: 34 seats

2 . Decides to amend Article V of the Constitution as follows:

(a) in paragraph 1, the word “thirty” shall be replaced by the words” thirty-four” ;

(b) paragraph 3 shall be replaced by the following:

(c)

” 3. Members of the Board shall serve from the close of the sessionof the General Conference which elected them until the close of thethird ordinary session of the General Conference following that elec-tion. They shall not be immediately eligible for a second term. TheGeneral Conference shall, at each of its ordinary sessions, elect thenumber of members required to fill the vacancies occurring at the endof the session.” ;

paragraph 13 shall be replaced by the following:

” c . Transitional provisions

13. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Article, mem-bers of the Executive Board elected at the thirteenth and fourteenth ses-sions of the General Conference for a first term and members electedby the Board in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 4 of thisArticle to replace members with a four-year term shall be eligible for-a second term of four years.

14. At the fifteenthsession of the General Conference, nineteen mem-bers shall be elected to the Executive Board pursuant to the provisionsof this Article. Thereafter, at each of its ordinary sessions, the Gene-ral Conference shall elect the number of members required to fill thevacancies occurring at the end of the session.” ;



3. Decides to make the following changes in its Rules of Procedure:

Rule 95 - Elections

Paragraph 1

The paragraph shall be replaced by the following:

" 1. At each of its ordinary sessions, the General Conference shall elect bysecret ballot the number of members of the Executive Board required tofill the vacancies occurring at the end of the session.”

Rule 95A - Transitional provisions

The rule shall be replaced by the following:

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Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article V of the Consti-tution, members of the Executive Board elected at the thirteenth and four-teenth sessions of the General Conference for a first term and memberselected by the Board pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 4 of ArticleV of the Constitution to replace members serving a term of four yearsshall be eligible for a second term of four years.

At the fifteenth session of the General Conference, nineteen members shallbe elected to the Executive Board pursuant to the provisions of Article V ofthe Constitution. Thereafter at each of its ordinary sessions, the GeneralConference shall elect the number of members required to fill the vacan-cies occurring at the end of the session.”

Rule 96 - Re-eligibility

This rule shall be replaced by the following:

“Subject to the transitional provisions contained in Article V, paragraph 13 ofthe Constitution, retiring members of the Executive Board shall not be eligible.for immediate re-election for a second term of office .”

Rule 97 - Term of office

The word ” second” shall be replaced by ” third” .

4. Decides that the election of members of the Executive Board at the fifteenthand sixteenth sessions of the General Conference shall be governed by thespecial provisions annexed to the present resolution, and consequently de-cides, in accordance with Rule 108 of the Rules of Procedure of the Gene-ral Conference to suspend, for the purposes of these elections, those pro-visions of the Rules of Procedure of the General Conference and of the Rulesfor the Conduct of Elections by Secret Ballot, which are incompatible withthe above-mentioned special provisions ." ;

3. Requests the Director-General to prepare, for submission to the General Con-ference at its fifteenth session, the special provisions to be annexed to theabove-mentioned draft resolution, basing himself on the draft amendments tothe Rules of Procedure of the General Conference and to the Rules for the Con-duct of Elections by Secret Ballot proposed by the Special Committee in para-graphs 4 and 5 of the draft resolution set out in paragraph 199 of its report(78 EX/2) and in Annex I of document 78 EX/2 Add.;

4. Recommends further that the General Conference give priority to the study ofthe above-mentioned draft resolution, so that elections to the Executive Boardmay take place after consideration of the question of the composition of the Ex-ecutive Board by the General Conference in plenary meeting.



II

Eligibility for re-election of Board members appointedto replace members serving a four-year term

The Executive Board,

1. Noting that the draft amendment to paragraph 13 of Article V of the Constitutionnotified to Member States at the request of the Executive Board by the Director-General in his communication CL/1931 of 27 March 1968 does not deal with theposition of members of the Board who have been or may be appointed by theBoard to replace members of the Board serving for a four-year term,

2. Considering that it would be desirable for the eligibility of these members forre-election to be clearly specified,

3. Invites the Director-General in accordance with Rule 104 of the Rules of Pro-cedure of the General Conference to communicate to Member States threemonths in advance of the opening of the fifteenth session of the General Confer-ence (i.e. by 15 July 1968) an amendment of the amendment of paragraph 13 ofArticle V of the Constitution relating to transitional provisions, in the followingterms:

” after the words ‘for the first term’ insert the words, ’ and members appointedby the Executive Board under paragraph 4 of this article to replace membersserving for a four-year term’ ” .

III

Long-term planning of the activities of the Organization


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Having regard to resolution 19 adopted by the General Conference at its four-teenth session,

Aware of the importance attached by the General Conference to long-termplanning, as evidenced in paragraph 4 of resolution 7 of the fourteenth session,

Having examined, on the one hand, that part of the recommendations of theUnited Nations Ad Hoc Committee of Experts concerning long-term planning,which are aimed at promoting greater co-ordination of the programmes andactivities of Unesco, both within the Organization itself and with those ofother agencies of the United Nations system in order to ensure the most ra-tional use of available resources

Having considered, on the other hand, the environment in which the Organiza-tion operates, the constitutional provisions, and other factors special to Unesco,which would affect any application to the Organization of the recommendations ofthe United Nations Ad Hoc Committee of Experts, as set forth in detail in para-graph 73 of its report,

Conscious that the nature of Unesco’s work in itself requires that the Organiza-tion’ s activities should in general be of a long-term or continuing nature andthat to an increasing extent particular programmes and projects are alreadydrawn up on a long-term basis covering more than one biennium,

Noting also with appreciation that by means of various documents, including inparticular the introduction to document C/5 and the evaluation paper C/4, theDirector-General has frequently drawn the attention of the General Conferenceto various general elements of long-term planning,



7. Believing, nevertheless, that the Organization has now reached a stage of de-velopment at which it is both possible and desirable to establish an integrated,balanced and flexible long-term plan,

8. Recommends that the General Conference at its fifteenth session should con-sider and decide upon the following proposals:

(a) The Director-General should be invited to prepare for the sixteenth ses-sion of the General Conference - using for this purpose the medium of docu-ment C/4 - a long-term plan covering three budgetary periods (six years)which would include:

(i) A statement of the objectives to be aimed at during this period;

(ii) Proposals for the activities through which these objectives might beattained; it being made clear that in respect of the first two years ofthe period it would be a case of laying down the main lines of the pro-gramme, the concrete projects which would be contained in the draftprogramme and budget for the forthcoming biennium, 1971-1972, andthat in respect of the two succeeding biennia the proposals would beexpressed in the form of a sketch programme which would describethe major fields of activity but would not suggest particular projects;

(iii) An estimate of the financial implications of the proposals expressed interms of anticipated tempo of growth;

(b) The Director-General should be requested to take into account, in preparingthe long-term plan, the priority needs of Member States, the need for pro-per co-ordination with the long-term programmes of the other institutionsof the United Nations family, the necessity and desirability of multilateraland regional action in Unesco’s areas of competence, an assessment of theresources likely to be available to the Organization, and the estimated ca-pacity of the Organization to undertake the activities proposed;

(c) The General Conference should discuss the proposed long-term plan at thesixteenth session and take action upon it in the following manner:

(i) It should, as at present, decide upon the programme and budget for theforthcoming biennium (1971-1972) on the basis of the document C/5;

(ii) It should in the course of the general debate, and in the ProgrammeCommission as appropriate, discuss the proposals made in the sketchprogramme for the two following biennia and reach conclusions for usein the preparation of the next two future programmes but would at thesame time reserve to subsequent sessions of the General Conferencethe duty of re-examining the long-term plan in the light of the devel-opment of the programme and with continuing regard to the criteriamentioned in paragraph 8(b) above;

(d) The Director-General should be invited, for each session of the GeneralConference subsequent to the sixteenth session, to bring the long-termplan up to date by extending it on each occasion for a further two yearsso that at every session there would be a six-year plan covering the acti-vities of the Organization.

IV

Records of commissions and committees


1. Recommends to the General Conference that it amend its Rules of Procedureas follows:



Rule 55: Delete paragraph 2

Rule 56: Delete, in paragraph 2, the words “and summary” and “and precis-writers”

Rule 56: Amend title to read: “Verbatim records and sound recordings”

Replace paragraph 2 by the following:

“Sound recordings only shall be made of meetings of commissions andcommittees, unless otherwise decided by the General Conference”

Rule 59: Amend title to read: “Circulation and safe keeping of records”

Delete, in paragraph 1, the words ” and summary records”

Replace paragraph 3 by the following:

” 3. The sound recordings made of meetings of commissions and commit-tees of the General Conference shall be kept in the archives of the Organ-ization where they may be consulted if necessary. Upon request a MemberState or Associate Member may obtain a copy of particular recordings, atits own expense ."

Rule 60: Delete the words “Summary and” ;

2. Invites the Director-General to make appropriate administrative arrangementsto ensure that records of commissions and committees of the General Confer-ence are preserved indefinitely without risk of accidental erasure or deteriora-tion, and that they may be consulted and copies provided in suitable conditions;

3. Authorizes the Director-General, in anticipation of the adoption by the GeneralConference of the amendments set out in paragraph 1, to make provision for theestablishment of summary records at the fifteenth session only up to the timeof the adoption of those amendments.

V

Reports Committee


1. Having studied the work of the Reports Committee in the course of its examina-tion of the methods of work of the General Conference carried out in accord-ance with resolution 15 of the fourteenth session of the General Conference,

2. Noting that of the two functions now entrusted to the Reports Committee, thatof considering the reports by Member States on the submission of internationalinstruments adopted by Unesco to their competent national authorities, couldappropriately be carried out by the Legal Committee, while that of consideringreports by Member States on the implementation of conventions and recommenda-tions could be examined by a suitable committee of the Executive Board in thesame manner as is now in force for the examination of the reports on the imple-mentation of the Convention and Recommendation on Discrimination in Education,

3. Recommends to the General Conference that it pass the following resolution:

” The General Conference,

Taking note of the Report of the Executive Board on the methods of work of theGeneral Conference, undertaken in accordance with resolution 15 of the four-teenth session of the General Conference in which it examined the work of theReports Committee of the General Conference,



Noting that the work of this committee has diminished and that the remainingduties could conveniently be undertaken by other organs,

(a) Decides that the duty of examining the reports of Member States on the sub-mission of international instruments adopted by Unesco to their competentnational authorities should be undertaken by the Legal Committee, as fromthe sixteenth session of the General Conference;

(b) Decides further to modify, with effect from the end of the fifteenth sessionof the General Conference, Rule 32 of the Rules of Procedure concerningthe functions of the Legal Committee in the terms of the amendment whichis annexed;

(c) Invites the Executive Board to make appropriate arrangements for reportsby Member States on the implementation of conventions or recommendationsto be examined by a subsidiary organ of the Board, such as the present spe-cial Committee on Discrimination in Education, it being understood that thereport of this subsidiary organ and the Executive Board’s comments thereonwould be discussed by the General Conference in plenary meeting, and thata special item would be included in the agenda of the General Conference forthat purpose .”

ANNEX

” Rule 32

Add a second paragraph as follows:

“The Committee shall also examine the initial special reports relating to any con-vention or recommendation transmitted by Member States pursuant to Article 16,paragraph 2 of the (Rules of Procedure concerning recommendations to MemberStates and international conventions covered by the terms of Article IV, paragraph4, of the Constitution’ , or pursuant to any other General Conference decision, andcontaining the information specified in resolution 50, adopted by the General Con-ference at its tenth session” .”

(78EX/SR.4,5,6 ,7 ,8 ,9 ,10,11,12,22,23,31)

3.2 Proposal concerning the establishment of an advisory council (77 EX/2,Section III)


1. Having examined the proposal by H.E . Mr. Carlos Chagas (Brazil) contained indocument 77 EX/2, Annex II, and taking into consideration the discussion towhich it gave rise in the Ad Hoc Committee, reported in paragraphs 13-22 ofdocument 77 EX/2, and also the discussion on the subject which took place inthe Board, reported in document 78 EX/SR.4,

2. Considering that it is desirable to continue to enlist the effective co-operationin the deliberations of Unesco’s organs of distinguished generalists and spe-cialists who, by reason of their knowledge and experience, are able to reflectthe aspirations of world public opinion in regard to the great problems withwhich Unesco is concerned and to provide the basis of an adequate solutionthereto,

3. Suggests that, for the future, the Director-General, by the ways and means ap-propriate and having regard to the budgetary resources available, resort morefrequently to formal or informal consultations, for the purposes of:

(a) critical study of Unesco’s task in the world of today and of the future;



(b) reflection on Unesco’s immediate or long-term action with regard to aproblem or a set of problems coming within its field of competence;

(c) study of possible future action designed to ensure that the Organization’ sinfluence shall extend beyond the purely operational sphere.

(78 EX/SR.4,23,24)

ITEM 4. EXECUTION OF THE PROGRAMME

4.1 Reports by the Director-General on the activities of the Organization

4.1 .I Printed report for 1967 (See also 78 EX/37 Part III and 78 EX/38 Part II)

4.1.2 Oral report for the period from 1 January 1968 to the opening of the 78th session-


1. Having considered the printed Report of the Director-General on the activitiesof the Organization in 1967 and having heard his oral report for the periodfrom 1 January 1968 to the opening of the 78th session,

2. Takes note of the printed Report for 1967 and commends the Introduction pre-pared by the Director-General in accordance with Decision 3.1 II, adopted bythe Executive Board at its 77th session:

3. Expresses its satisfaction at the scope and importance of the Director-General’soral report and the discussions to which it gave rise;

4. Invites the Director-General, in carrying out the programme in 1968, to takeaccount of the comments and suggestions made concerning these reports.

(78 EX/SR.2,26,27,28,31)

II


1. Aware of the extent and gravity of the problems of youth, and of the movementsin which those problems are finding expression throughout the world,

2. Realizing that Unesco’s activities in this field have not so far made made a suf-ficient contribution to the solution of these problems,

3. Desirous of timely action by Unesco in order to define the objectives, methodsand spirit of modern education and of other different ways to educate youth, inorder to assist Member States to bring their education and youth activities intocloser harmony with the evolution of society, to prepare young people for thatevolution and to provide them with opportunities for fruitful work,

4. Considering that, among the problems of education, those of higher educationare particularly important and urgent,

5 . Having regard in particular to the work of the Conference organized by Unescoat Vienna, in November 1967, on Access to Higher Education, the conclusionsof which contain an urgent appeal and formulate recommendations useful, invarious respects, to all Unesco’ s Member States,

6. Authorizes the Director-General, if he considers it possible and opportune,to arrange, in 1968, the first of a series of symposia of university teachers,



students and administrators, which would have as its theme ‘I The nature andrble of higher education in contemporary society.” Organized within the re-gional framework of the Member States of Europe so as to take immediate ad-vantage of the results of the Conference of Vienna, this symposium would beopen to the participation of a number of persons from other regions; subject tothe approval of the General Conference, it would be followed in 1969 and in sub-sequent years, by similar symposia devoted either to the same theme or toclosely related themes which would be organized in other regions;

7. Invites the Director-General, if appropriate, to report on the results of thissymposium and to supply other possible information to the Executive Boardbefore the fifteenth session of the General Conference.

(78 EX/SR .26)

4.2 Education

4.2.1 Implementation of the Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers(78 EX/3 and Add. Rev. and 78 EX/37 Part I)


1. Having examined the report of the Director-General on the implementation ofthe Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers (78 EX/3 and Add. Rev.),

2. Approves the proposals contained in paragraph 7 of that document and appoints,on the proposal of the Director-General, the following persons to be membersof the Joint Committee for three years:

Professor S .B. ADAVAL , Head of the Department of Education,Allahabad University, (India)

Professor Tatsuo MORITO, President of the Central Council forEducation (Japan)

Professor Alassane N’ DAW, Professor at Dakar University(Senegal)

Dr. Y.S. KOTB, Vice-Rector, Ain Shams University,Abbassia, Cairo (United Arab Republic)

Professor Ben MORRIS, Director, Institute of Education, Universityof Bristol (United Kingdom)

Academician E .I. MONOSZON, Scientific Secretary of the Academy ofPedagogical Sciences (Union of SovietSocialist Republics 1;

3. Authorizes the Director-General to provide, on a provisional basis, for thereplacement, by a person of the same nationality or of the same region, com-petent in the same subjects and representing the same educational system, ofanyone appointed to membership of the Committee and unable to serve in thatcapacity or to complete his term of office;

4. Invites him to submit the final appointment of such persons to the approval ofthe Executive Board as soon as that body meets.

(78 EX/SR.26)



4.2.2 Voluntary contributions for the long-term financing of the InternationalInstitute for Educational Planning (78 EX/32 and 78 EX/37 Part I)


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Having considered resolution 35 adopted by the Governing Board of the Inter-national Institute for Educational Planning, at its sixth session, on the Insti-tute’ s resource requirements, amounting to at least $8 million, for the period1969-1973,

Believing that, in order to meet the growing needs of Member States fortraining and research in the field of educational planning, the Institute shouldexpand substantially its activities during that period,

Recalling that, under Article VIII of the Statutes of the Institute, the funds setaside for the operation of the Institute shall consist of the annual allocation de-termined by the General Conference of Unesco and of such subventions, giftsand bequests as are allocated to it by other United Nations agencies, govern-ments , public or private organizations , associations or individuals, and of feescollected for special purposes,

Considering that it would not be possible to meet the total financial requirementsfor the expanded activities of the Institute from the Regular budget of the Organ-ization,

Thanks the Member States and intergovernmental and non-governmental organ-izations which have agreed to make voluntary contributions to the Institute;

Endorses the principle, adopted by the Director-General and approved by theGeneral Conference, that the basic budget of the Institute should be financedfrom the Regular programme of Unesco;

Invites Member States of Unesco to consider what voluntary contributions theymight make to the Institute and, for this purpose, requests the Director-General to provide Member States with the necessary information and docu-mentation;

Hopes that the United Nations organizations associated with the work of theInstitute will continue to examine the possibility of contributing to its support;

Invites the Director-General to consult with Member States and appropriateUnited Nations agencies on this matter, and to take such action as he deemsappropriate to help meet the financial requirements of the Institute, in keepingwith the Financial Regulations of Unesco as applicable.

(78 EX/SR.26)

4.2.3 Invitations to the Conference on Education and Scientific and TechnicalTraining in Relation to Development in Africa (78 EX/36 and 78 EX/37 Part III)


1. Having examined document 78 EX/36,

2. Decides that the following organizations be invited to send observers to theConference on Education and Scientific and Technical Training in Relation toDevelopment in Africa:

East African CommunityOrganization for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentInternational Federation for Documentation



International League for Child and Adult EducationThe Association of African Universities.

(78 EX/SR .261

4.3 Natural Sciences

4.3.1 European co-operation in the field of fundamental biology (78 EX/4 and78 EX/37, Part 11


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Noting the resolution 2.2262 of the fourteenth session of the General Conferenceon the European co-operation in the field of basic biology,

Considering the developments which have taken place in Europe since thefourteenth session of the General Conference,

Having examined document 78 EX/4.

Endorses the view of the Director-General that it would be premature, owingto the recent establishment of the European Conference on Molecular Biology,to convene in 1968 an intergovernmental European meeting of experts to ex-amine ways and means of strengthening co-operation among all European coun-tries in the field of basic biology; and

Authorizes the Director-General not to take action on resolution 2.2262 in 1968.

(78 EX/SR.26)

4.4 Social sciences, human sciences and culture

4.4.1 Implementation of the Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in theEvent of Armed Conflict (78 EX/5)


1. Takes note of the Director-General’s Report (78 EX/5);

2 . Instructs the Director-General to transmit to the Commissioners-Generalthe summary records of the Board’ s discussions on this item of the agenda.

(78 EX/SR.25,26,27)

4.4.2 International Campaign for Florence and Venice (78 EX/6 and Add.1


Decides to postpone consideration of this item until its 79th session.

(78 EX/SR.12)

4.4.3 Report on the possibility of drafting an international convention concerning theillicit import, export and transfer of ownership of cultural property(78 EX/9 and 78 EX/37, Part I)


1. Bearing in mind Articles 2 and 3 of the Rules of Procedure concerning Recom-mendations to Member States and International Conventions covered by theterms of Article IV, paragraph 4, of the Constitution,



2. Having examined the report and preliminary study contained in document78 EX/9, and appreciating the need both to consult Member States and to con-duct more detailed studies,

3. Decides to include the following question in the provisional agenda of the fif-teenth session of the General Conference: “Desirability of drafting an inter-national convention concerning the illicit import, export and transfer of owner-ship of cultural property” ;

4. Being of opinion that such a convention should be drafted in such terms as tomake it ratifiable by a large number of Member States, and thus respond to thedesire expressed in resolution 4.413 adopted by the General Conference at itstwelfth session,

5. Requests the Director-General to provide the General Conference with a sum-mary of the Executive Board’s discussion on this matter; and

6. Recommends that the General Conference debate the question at its fifteenthsession.

(78 EX/SR.26)

4.5 Communication

4.5.1 Study of the feasibility of launching a pilot project on the use of satellite ‘communi-cation for education and economic development (78 EX/7 and 78 EX/37, Part I)


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Recalling that the General Conference in resolution 4.13 adopted at its four-teenth session, authorized the Director-General to undertake “a study of thefeasibility of launching a pilot project on the use of satellite communicationfor education and economic development, as well as other preparatory mea-sures as may be necessary, and to submit to the Executive Board a report onthe results of the study so that the Board may submit its recommendationsthereon to the General Conference at its fifteenth session” ,

Having considered a report (78 EX/7) prepared by the Director-General pur-suant to the above-mentioned resolution,

Noting that this report, based on the findings of a Unesco expert mission toIndia, described the possibility of a project in the use of satellite communi-cation for national development in that country,

Noting with satisfaction that the Government of India is exploring the possi-bility of implementing a project for the use of satellite communication, takingaccount of the results of the Unesco study,

Recognizing that the project will require extensive exploration and prepara-tory work including study, research and a broad training programme,

Authorizes the Director-General, upon request from the Government of Indiaand within the framework of Unesco’s programme and budget, to continue tolend assistance to studies needed on the use of satellite communication;

Invites the Director-General to submit to a future session of the ExecutiveBoard, for its study, any subsequent reports received from the Governmentof India on this subject;

Commends document 78 EX/7 to the favourable attention of the General Confer-ence at its fifteenth session, in the light of the discussion which took place atthe 78th session of the Executive Board.

(78 EX/SR .26)



4.5.2 International standardization of library statistics: proposal forinternational regulations (78 EX/8 and 78 EX/37. Part I)


1. Bearing in mind Articles 2 and 3 of the Rules of Procedure concerning Recom-mendations to Member States and International Conventions covered by theterms of Article IV, paragraph 4, of the Constitution,

2 . Having noted with satisfaction the report and preliminary study contained indocument 78 EX/8.

3. Decides to include the following item in the provisional agenda of the fifteenthsession of the General Conference: “Desirability of drawing up internationalregulations concerning the standardization of library statistics” ;

4. Requests the Director-General to transmit to the General Conference the sum-mary of the Executive Board’s discussion on this question.

(78 EX/SR .26)

ITEM 5, PREPARATION OF THE DRAFT PROGRAMME AND BUDGET FOR 1969-1970

5.1 Examination of the Draft Programme and Budget for 1969-1970(15 C/5) and recommendations thereon by the Executive Board

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Having examined the Introduction to the Draft Programme and Budget for 1969-1970 (15 C/5) and having heard the Director- General’s oral introduction of itto the Executive Board;

Recordinp its satisfaction with both the written text and the oral statementon account of the clarity and value of their conclusions, which provide avaluable evaluation both of the methods of preparing the programme and budgetand of their effect in promoting a more efficient organization of the work of theGeneral Conference;Decides to submit document 15 C/5 with the following conclusions and recom-mendations to the General Conference at its fifteenth session;

Resolutions of the General Conference

The general policy resolutions adopted by the General Conference at its thir-teenth and fourteenth sessions have had a substantial influence on the trends,content and structure of successive draft programmes and budgets by ensuringthe continuity of development of the Organization’ s activities on clearly definedlegislative bases; for that reason the Board believes that they should be con-stantly publicized by means of a document making them readily accessible,specially when modifications seem advisable as a result of changing circum-stances.

IIConsultation with Member States for the preparation of the programme

The preliminary consultation with all Member States in regard to the prepara-tion of the Draft Programme and Budget for 1971-1972 should be maintained,but the procedure for it should be altered and Member States should be re-quested to send their proposals and suggestions for the 1971-1972 biennium tothe Director-General before 30 June 1969, to enable him to take them into ac-count in the preparation of the document regarding major innovations andchanges which he will submit to the Executive Board at its autumn 1969 session.


6. The General Conference should also draw the attention of Member States tothe importance of taking fuller advantage of this latter procedure, with a viewto increasing the number and value of the replies , which should as far as pos-sible take into account the discussions of the General Conference on the subjectof the future programme, so as to secure greater coherence in the common en-deavour .

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Document C/ 5

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Document C/5, and its introduction in particular. should be studied in conjunc-tion with other documents of equivalent importance, such as the reports of theDirector-General on the activities of the Organization. document C/4 dealingwith the evaluation of Unesco’s activities and future prospects and documentC/6, containing the Executive Board’ s comments and recommendations to theGeneral Conference in accordance with the provisions of Article V.B.5 of theConstitution. Each of these documents has a particular purpose and should bestudied as closely as document C/5 itself.

Experience shows the advisability of simplifying the structure and drafting ofdocument C/5, without making it any less a working instrument of the Confer-ence, for several reasons: (a) because it should be made easier to read andunderstand, for the benefit alike of members of National Commissions or of theGeneral Conference and its various organs, and of specialized bodies and cir-cles and international non-governmental organizations; (b) because it is inlarge measure the actual structure of this document which determines themethod of work followed and the time involved in its examination; (c) becauseof the importance of ensuring that more time is available to enable the GeneralConference to formulate those directives regarding the future programme whichmust increasingly form the means by which the proper control of the programmeby the General Conference is exercised.

In order to enable progress to be made in this direction at the sixteenth ses-sion of the General Conference it is desirable that the General Conferenceshould authorize the Director-General, in consultation with the ExecutiveBoard, when preparing document 16 C/5, to reduce substantially the numberof resolutions to one for each chapter of the programme and to condense thework plans as far as possible, without detracting from the necessary clarity;he should also be requested to prepare an index for the document, to correlatethe different sectors more clearly, and to make comparison with previousdocuments C/5 easier, particularly in regard to the most important subjects.

In the light of the foregoing suggestions, and as proposed by the Director-General, it is considered advisable that the time-table of the Executive Board’ssessions should also be changed in order to allow the Secretariat more timefor the preparation of document C/5; and, in particular, that the autumn ses-sion in the odd years should be held in September instead of October.

IV

(a) Unesco’ s contribution to peace

11. The Board draws the attention of the General Conference to the action takenfirstly by the Director-General and then by the Board under resolution 10 of thefourteenth session in connexion with the plan concerning Unesco’ s contributionto peace; this is the origin of the proposals contained in the draft programmeand budget submitted for its examination, on which a special Secretariat docu-ment (15 C/50) is to be produced, providing an opportunity for the GeneralConference to propose any new ideas or methods through which the Regularprogramme might be strengthened in close co-ordination with the activities ofother organizations of the United Nations system.




(b) The elimination of colonialism and racialism

12. The Board approves the Director-General’s intention to present a document(15 C/49) to the fifteenth session of the General Conference, dealing with thesteps taken to implement resolution 11 of the fourteenth session of the GeneralConference concerning the gradual elimination of colonialism and racialismand, more especially, concerning the co-operation that Unesco should give tothe countries and peoples which have recently attained independence or whichhave not yet attained it, in order to assist them in the development of educa-tion. science and culture.

VRegional activities

13. This question should be approached not only from the standpoint of the distri-bution of the resources allocated to each region, but also from that of thequality and efficiency of the activities conducted by Unesco or with its collab-oration, and of the particular effects of such activities in each region in ac-cordance with the characteristics of that region and the universalist concep-tion of the Organization’ s activities. From this standpoint, each region shouldconstitute an area in which the various centres are mutually complementary,thus avoiding expensive proliferation: in order to avoid this, it is essential tomake periodic evaluations, which will enable a genuine policy to be carried outin future at the level of the various regions. In accordance with the resolutionsadopted by the General Conference at previous sessions, Unesco should aidthese centres while progressively facilitating the transfer of their financing toregional or national authorities.

14. The Executive Board reaffirms the importance which it attaches, in each sec-tor of the programme, to regional activities, and notes with satisfaction theDirector-General’s proposals regarding the development of those activities forAfrica, Latin America. Asia, the Arab States and Europe.

VICo-ordination in the United Nations system

15. The Executive Board expresses satisfaction at the work done by the Director-General in contributing to the co-ordination of programmes within the UnitedNations system, welcoming especially the agreements concluded with variousorganizations belonging to this system, particularly the UNDP; it is concerned,however, at the proliferation of specialized bodies set up to perform this workof co-ordination, the guiding principles of which should be applied under thecentralized direction of the Economic and Social Council, and expresses itsconviction that soundly conceived co-ordination should enable Unesco to carryout all the functions assigned to it by its Constitution, as well as to take therequired action to implement the decisions of the General Assembly of the Uni-ted Nations which concern the Organization’ s fields of competence.

VIIForward studies

16. The adaptation of Unesco to the needs of a radically and rapidly changing worldmakes it essential to provide the Director-General with a flexible system ofmeans appropriate for this task, more particularly means enabling him, out-side the organic framework of the institution, to consult persons of eminencefor their learning and for the extent to which they represent world public opin-ion, with a view to initiating a critical examination of Unesco’ s activities andundertaking more or less long-term forward studies calculated to orient it to-wards the highest aspirations of humanity. It was in this spirit that the Boardadopted Decision 3.2 at its present session.

VIIIThe Secretariat

17. The reorganization of the Secretariat proposed by the Director-General isthe result of long experience of the gradual and progressive development of



programme activities and of the gradual recruitment of staff, most of themspecialized owing to experience acquired in the Secretariat itself. An accountof this reorganization is given in the organization chart accompanying document15 C/S, which shows not only the structure of the staff but also the distributionof activities, thus making it possible to compare, in its various sectors, theunity and coherence which govern both the programme and its implementation.

18. It is important that further rationalization of the work should give the Director-General and the the Secretariat the necessary time and freedom of mind to en-able them to ponder the important problems which, depending upon the courseof events, may be presented to Unesco in new or unforeseeable forms.

IXMethod of budgeting and amount of the budget*

19. Experience has shown the advantages of the method of establishing the budgetlaid down in resolutions 7.IV and 14, adopted by the General Conference at itsfourteenth session, and in resolution 5 .l adopted by the Executive Board at its77th session, particularly in regard to the fixing of the ” budgetary basis” ; andsatisfaction should be expressed at the efforts made by the Director-General topresent the budget estimates on a realistic basis.

20. Nevertheless, the Board wishes to draw attention to the constant disproportionbetween the desires of Member States and the growing demands for faster pro-gress in education, science and culture, on the one hand and, on the other, theinadequacy of the budgetary resources available to satisfy them.

21. Consequently, and in view of the limited growth rate proposed by the Director-General in the Draft Programme and Budget for 1969-1970 (15 C/5) the Execu-tive Board recommends to the General Conference a total budget - excludingUNDP contributions corresponding to the Executing Agency costs of SpecialFund projects - of $71,307,000, to which should be added the supplementaryexpenditure ($370,000) required for the incorporation of the InternationalBureau of Education into Unesco, should the General Conference so decide.

22. The Executive Board has noted with pleasure that the Director-General isready, if the General Conference is prepared to endorse the Board’s recom-mendation, to submit to the Conference information concerning the sectors ofthe programme and chapters on administrative expenditures in which, in hisopinion, savings could be made, taking into account the opinions expressed onthis subject by the members of the Board, and also paragraphs 8 to 13 of reso-lution 5.1 C .II adopted by the Executive Board at the present session, withoutdetriment to the main part of the programme.

23. Owing to the circumstances which have led to a substantial rise of salariesin the host country, it must be anticipated that the total cost of the programmeas proposed by the Director-General in document 15 C/5 will increase in pro-portion both to the rise in the salaries of the Headquarters staff, and to the in-creased cost of goods and services. The Director-General will be obliged totake account of these factors when submitting to Member States the revisedbudget estimates for 1969-1970, in accordance with the provisions of para-graph 6 of resolution 14 adopted by the General Conference at its fourteenthsession. In view of the fact that it will not be possible to calculate the bud-getary implications of these factors until the beginning of August 1968, the Ex-ecutive Board has authorized the Director-General to communicate thesechanges to Member States on 15 August 1968 (instead of 15 July) and invitedhim to submit to the Executive Board at its 79th session (29 August - 13 Sept-ember 1968) his revised budget estimates based on the information availableon 15 July, so that the Board may transmit its recommendations thereon to theGeneral Conference.

* The vote on Section IX was taken separately from that on Sections I - VIII of the resolution.



24. At the same time the Board draws the attention of the General Conference tothe results of the close examination which it has undertaken of the variousparts of the draft programme and budget, both in respect of the content of theprogramme and of its financial and administrative aspects; the conclusions ofthis detailed examination are to be found in the other recommendations of theBoard in this respect, which are contained in resolutions B and C below.

(78EX/SR.13,14,15.16,17,18,29,30,31)

B


1. Having reviewed Part II. Programme Operations and Services, of the DraftProgramme and Budget for 1969-1970 (15 C/5),

2 . Submits to the fifteenth session of the General Conference the following recom-mendations and comments:

EDUCATION

General

3. Expresses its general satisfaction with the contents of the Education programmewhich is well balanced between the conceptual framework and operational acti-vities as well as between long-term actions and short-term projects;

4 . Approves the priority assigned to education in the programme for 1969-1970,which reflects the growing needs of Member States in educational development;

5 . Endorses in principle the structure proposed for the Education programme;

6. Draws attention to the need for a further strengthening of a selective approachso that the programme could be more and more concentrated on priority areas;

7. Expresses the view that collaboration should be further strengthened betweenthe sections concerned with the quantitative and qualitative aspects of education,so that the inherent interrelationship between these two aspects could be en-sured;

8. Expresses the hope that the Organization will play an increasing role in theencouragement and evaluation of modern trends in education which are aimedat eliminating the existing gap between the development of education and theneeds of rapidly changing societies;

9. Draws attention to the large number of conferences and meetings proposed for1969-1970 and proposes its reduction;

10. Draws attention to the International Education Year for which 1970 is likelyto be chosen by the United Nations General Assembly at its forthcoming sessionand suggests that appropriate projects in 15 C/5 as commemorative events bereformulated;

II

International co-operation for the advancement of education

11. Approves the prudent approach to the programme of life-long integrated educa-tion which needs thorough preparation touching upon the general philosophy ofeducation;



III

School and higher education

Expresses satisfaction with the interdisciplinary approach in the programmeof teacher training and draws attention to the importance of introducingteachers to the techniques of educational research and of docimology;

Welcomes the new programme on rural development and expresses the viewthat the programme should be co-ordinated with other activities particularlythose relating to youth and to the access of women to education as well as withsimilar activities of other international organizations;

Draws attention to the importance of following and encouraging new trendswith regard to curricula, methods and techniques and to the evaluation and in-tegration of proposals related to individual subjects and methods in a compre-hensive plan of contemporary education;

Expresses the view that Member States should be given more aid to developtheir foreign language teaching at the primary, secondary and higher levels;

Notes with satisfaction the extension of the higher education programme but ex-presses the view that it should be further expanded in the light of the recom-mendations of the 1967 European Conference of Ministers of Education on Ac-cess to Higher Education, in keeping with the university’s role in society;

Welcomes the expansion of the programme of education for international under-standing and co-operation and for peace, and recommends the extension ofUnesco Clubs, the publication of reading materials aimed at promoting inter-national understanding as well as the extension of out-of-class activities re-lated to the moral and civic education of youth;

Expresses the hope that international instruments be drawn up prohibiting thepropagation of the ideas of war, revanchism, racialism and violence in schoolcurricula and textbooks, and dealing with the promotion among young peopleand adults of the ideas of peace and mutual understanding among the peoples;

IV

Out-of-school education

Expresses the view that the programme for youth should be reviewed andstrengthened with a view to promoting the education of the younger generationin the spirit of peace, mutual respect and understanding among peoples;

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20. Welcomes the long-term action in the training of middle-grade personnelwhich has to cover in-service training facilities, evening classes, etc., aswell as vocational and technical education in school;

21. Proposes the organization of seminars at the request of Member States in de-veloping areas which would bring together government officials, senior execu-tives of industry and educational planners to determine their intermediate man-power needs and the organization of their training;

22. Takes note with satisfaction of the rate of expansion of the on-going pilotproject in work-oriented adult literacy and recommends that the assessmentof these projects be continued and strengthened;



V

Educational planning, administration, buildings and financing

23. Expresses satisfactionwith the work of the International Institute for Educa-tional Planning and the proposal that it give priority to general methodology inplanning and recommends that the activities of the Institute be extended to in-clude the qualitative aspects of school, higher and out-of-school education;

24. Considers satisfactory the work of the regional school buildings centres butrecommends that an evaluation of the work of the Regional Centre for Africabe submitted to the General Conference;

VI

Problems of youth

25. Invites the Director-General to submit to the General Conference, at its fif-teenth session, a study on the measures that Unesco might take, in 1969-1970,in order to contribute more effectively to the solution of such problems as themodernization and democratization of the university; the effectiveness of itsteaching; equality of opportunity both as regards access to higher education andfurther study; and the prospects of employment available to university graduates;

26. Expresses the hope that the Director-General will be able lo submit to the Gene-ral Conference at its fifteenth session proposals on the measures that Unescomight take in 1969-1970 to reinforce its youth programme:

27. Recommends that the General Conference, at its fifteenth session, accord ahigh priority to the problems of youth, especially those relating to educationat secondary and higher levels and out-of-school education of young people;

NATURAL SCIENCES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO DEVELOPMENT

I

General

28. Observes that the presentation of the programme for natural sciences and cor-respondingly the Secretariat has been reorganized;

29. Takes note that:

(i) the third unit in Chapter 2 (Part II) of document 14 C/5 on application ofscience to development has been transferred to the second unit of the cor-responding chapter in 15 C/5, Science education and technological educa-tion and research, and that the Teaching of the basic sciences has beentransferred to this unit;

(ii) everything related to nature has been transferred from the second unitof the same chapter of 14 C/5 on International co-operation for the advance-ment of science teaching, research and documentation, to a new third unitof the corresponding chapter in 15 C/5 now called Environmental sciences andnatural resources research;

(iii) the rest of the former second unit of this chapter in 14 C/5 together withthe former first unit on science policy, has been joined into a new firstunit of the corresponding chapter in 15 C/5 with the title Science policy,scientific information and fundamental research;



30. Considers that, in the new organization of the programme, the distinction be-tween the advancement of science and the application of science to develop-ment is abandoned and commends the resulting improvement in the conceptionof the programme;

31. Endorses the new structure of the Natural Sciences Sector and welcomes espe-cially the creation of the new third Department of Environmental Sciences andNatural Resources Research;

32. Assumes, however, that this sector will not again be reorganized in the nearfuture;

33. Commends the programme of this chapter and expresses satisfaction with res-pect to the priority given to this part of the programme which reflects the re-quirements of the Member States in the development of the sciences;

34. Recommends that Member States be invited to ensure that their National Com-missions for Unesco should also establish a sub-committee on science and tech-nology;

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Science policy, scientific information and fundamental research

35. Suggests that, when listing activities for creating favourable conditions for thepromotion of science in contemporary societies, the following addition shouldbe made to draft resolution 2.14:

” (e) and to consider any other means, in Unesco’s present publications, of en-abling public opinion to become aware of the impact of science on society .“;

36. Emphasizes the importance of close collaboration between the Promotion ofFundamental Research (2.16) and Higher Education (1 .26);

37. Suggests that Unesco co-operate with UNIDO, UNDP and other interested spe-cialized Agencies in order to study the possibility of establishing and develop-ing ” primary” scientific industries;

38. Observes with satisfaction the successful collaboration of Unesco with the In-ternational Brain Research Organization (IBRO) and pays tribute to the recentarrangement of the important International Symposium on Brain Research andexpresses the hope that the results of the above symposium will be publishedwithout delay because of the world-wide interest in that research;

39. Is aware of the need to stimulate research with a view to increasing the pro-duction of proteins, particularly by improving the yield of stock feed by gene-tic studies or through the study of guided mutations, especially through the uni-cellular organisms;

40. Considers it desirable that as required in the resolutions of the General As-sembly 2319 (XXII) and ECOSOC 1257 (XLIII), the activities of the United Nationsorganizations in this field should be integrated;

41. Is of the opinion that Unesco should, in accordance with the above resolutionsof the General Assembly and ECOSOC. be a constituent member of the ProteinAdvisory Group (GAP), and invites the Director-General to take the necessarymeasures in order to attain such membership status for Unesco;

42. Congratulates the Director-General on the help given to the ECOSOC AdvisoryCommittee on the Application of Science and Technology to Development andnotes with gratification that the continuation of this co-operation is envisagedin document 15 C/5;



43. Recommends that the General Conference study suggestions which might con-tribute to lessening the impact of the brain drain on science and technology inthe developing countries;

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Science education and technological education and research

44. Notes that, in paragraphs 262 and 264 of the Education chapter, the teachingof the basic sciences covers also the primary schools and that co-ordinationbetween science training programmes in the Education and Science chaptersshould be continued to be ensured by the science sector;

45. Recommends that draft resolution 2.24 be completed as follows:

“Suggests that in the execution of this programme due attention should begiven:

(al to the necessity of mobilizing human resources as a basis for integratedrural development and improvement;

(b) to the urgent need to integrate rural life harmoniously in economic progressin every country;

(c) to the interdisciplinary character of Unesco’ s competence and to the speci-fic nature of the rural communities ." ;

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Environmental sciences and natural resources research

46. Assumes that the necessary correlation will be created between the programmeon environmental sciences and natural resources research and the new project(paragraph 1228) on ” Man and his Environment - Design for Living” in Chap-ter 3;

47. Recommends an addition to draft resolution 2.01 as follows:

” (j) to take measures to educate the young generation in the knowledge of na-ture as Man’ s environment ." ;

48. Observes with satisfaction the success of the International Hydrological Decade(IHD) and suggests that close correlation be maintained and established be-tween IHD, on the one hand, and the International Biological Programme, thewater pollution studies and the natural resources research, on the other;

49. Recommends that the disaster prevention studies referred to in draft resolution2.3221 .5(b), which are within Unesco’s competence, be extended to cover alsoother disasters such as the glacial drifts and avalanches;

50. Observes that the work of Unesco, in support both of the IntergovernmentalOceanographic Commission and of its own programme in Oceanography, isproceeding satisfactorily;

51. Is aware of the fact that the development in the field of oceanography, both in-ternationally and in the main countries concerned, is extremely rapid;

52. Notes with satisfaction the important role being played by Unesco and the Inter-governmental Oceanographic Commission in the execution of the United NationsGeneral Assembly resolutions 2172 (XXI), on the Natural Resources of the Sea,and 2340 (XXII), on the Peaceful Use of the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor;



53. Expects that the further financial needs, brought about by the latest develop-ments , can be met inter alia from extra-budgetary sources;

54. Welcomes the new arrangements for co-operation between FAO and Unesco inthe field of marine sciences and fisheries;

55. Expects that more attention, whenever opportune, will be given to the oceano-graphic needs of the developing countries;

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Co-operation with FAO and ILO in agricultural education,science and training

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56. Recalling resolution 2.342 by which the General Conference, at its fourteenthsession, authorized the Director-General to promote agricultural educationand science in Member States, in particular:

” (g) by continuing his endeavours to co-operate with governmental and non-governmental organizations, in particular with ILO and FAO, on a basisof reciprocity, while ensuring that this shall neither be prejudicial to,nor delay, Unesco’s programme vis-a-vis Member States;

(h) by examining the possibility of instituting a new tripartite co-operationagreement with ILO and FAO. in the light of the resolutions adopted bythe General Conference and based on Unesco’ s primary responsibilityfor science and education in the agricultural and industrial sectors at alllevels, including teacher training, having regard to the satisfactory ar-rangements existing with ILO and the United Nations (Centre for Indus-trial Development) in respect of technical education and vocational train-ing;

(i) by maintaining co-operation with ILO and FAO, giving all possible as-sistance to the activities of those organizations relating to vocationaltraining for young people and adults and particularly to the training offarmers ." ,

57. Recalling further the resolution adopted by the Board at its 76th session, which

” Expresses the hope that Unesco and FAO will succeed in establishing aJoint Advisory Committee of the two organizations on agricultural educa-tion and science for the biennium 1969-1970” (76 EX/Decisions, 4.3.2)

and the resolution adopted at its 77th session, which

” Requests the Director-General tocontinue negotiations with the Directors-General of FA0 and IL0 with a view to resolving the existing difficultiesin the way of collaboration in this important field, and to report to the Ex-ecutive Board at its 78th session on the progress made in these negotia-tions ;” (77 EX/Decisions, 6.3.).

58. Having reviewed the report of the Director-General on co-operation with FA0and IL0 in the field of agricultural education, science and training (78 EX/15,and Addendum and Appendix), and having received statements from theDirectors-General of FA0 and ILO.

59. Congratulates the Director-General of Unesco and through him the ExecutiveHeads of FA0 and IL0 on the successful outcome of their negotiations andexpresses its satisfaction at this outcome;


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Endorses the Aide-Memoire, of 3 May 1968, setting forth guidelines for co-operationbetween FAO, Unesco and IL0 in agricultural education, science andtraining, contained in an Appendix to document 78 EX/15 Add. ;

Expresses the hope that, on the basis of this understanding, co-operation withMember States in this important area will increase in quantity and improve inquality and invites Member States to avail themselves as fully as possible ofthe new opportunities thus afforded for promoting their agricultural and ruraldevelopment;

Commends to the favourable attention of the General Conference the amendmentproposed by the Director-General to the opening paragraph of draft resolution2.24 in the Draft Programme and Budget for 1969-1970 (15 C/5), to read asfollows:

” The Director-General is authorized with the assistance of a Joint FAO/Unesco/IL0 Advisory Committee on Agricultural Education, Science and Training and inco-operation with FAO, IL0 and other competent organizations of the United Na-tions system, and appropriate governmental and non-governmental bodies, topromote the development of agricultural education and agricultural sciences inMember States, and in particular:”

and recommends that the General Conference note the consequent modificationswhich will be made on the corresponding work plan in paragraph 832;

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Recalling resolution 2.343 adopted by the General Conference at its fourteenthsession by which “the Executive Board is invited to take steps as appropriatefor the convening of an Ad Hoc Joint Committee, in accordance with Article IIIof the Agreement between FA0 and Unesco of November 1948, consisting of anequal number of members of the FA0 Council and Unesco’s Executive Board,with a view to resolving at governmental level the existing difficulties in thecollaboration between the two organizations in the field of agricultural education”,

Noting the resolution adopted by the Council of FA0 which calls for the conven-ing of such an Ad Hoc Joint Committee,

Taking into account the satisfactory outcome of the Director-General’s negotia-tions with FA0 and IL0 and the advisability of awaiting the results of the imple-mentation of the provisions of the Aide-M&moire endorsed in paragraph 60 ofthe present resolution,

Believes that there is no need to constitute at present the Ad Hoc Joint Commit-tee referred to above and requests the Director-General to inform the Director-General of FA0 accordingly;

Invites the Director-General to inform the Board and the General Conference inhis periodic reports of the results of the implementation of the Aide-Memoireof 3 May 1968;

SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMAN SCIENCES AND CULTURE

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General

68. Commends the chapter to the General Conference and welcomes the improve-ment of quality, integration and concentration of this programme which couldconstitute the basis for a coherent expansion of this sector’s programme in thefuture;



69. Considering that the rate of growth allocated to this chapter is relatively low,expresses the hope that these activities will be further developed in the future;

70. Recalls that the activities proposed in the domains of education, science andculture must always be inspired by the objectives defined by the Declarationon the Principles of International Cultural Co-operation and welcomes the ef-forts made towards this end;

71. Aware of the primordial importance of the problem of peace, recommends theprojects set out in this chapter and requests their development in the future;

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Interdisciplinary co-operation and philosophy

72. Supports the proposed activities and recommends that all the Organization’sactivities be the subject of a more thorough critical reflection;

73. Hopes that the study in depth of methods of interdisciplinary co-operation willbe continued in this field;

74. Recommends that the role of the Division of Philosophy be increased in thematter of research, analysis and investigation of new thoughts and ideas in theworld, to enable that division to contribute effectively to the prospective con-sideration concerning the action of the Organization;

75. Notes with satisfaction the proposal to hold an international symposium onMahatma Gandhi - his doctrine of non-violence and his contribution to peace;

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Social sciences

76. Emphasizes the importance of Unesco’s role in the teachingof internationallaw;

77. Stresses the importance of research on human rights and again emphasizes theproblem of peace;

78. Recommends in particular expert meetings on:

(1) research on peace problems,

(2) the implications of recent scientific research on aggressiveness, includinga study on its socio-economic factors;

79. Notes the importance of Unesco’s interdepartmental programme concerningpopulation and family planning and recommends that the Organization’s activi-ties in the field of population should be developed;

80. Attaches the greatest importance to the proposed studies on the migration oftalent and stresses the urgency of such studies;

81. Calls particular attention to the programme on ” Man and his Physical andSocial Environment” , and invites Member States to present suggestions con-cerning the development of this importance programme;

82. Recommends that particular attention be accorded to the teaching of the manage-ment sciences;

83. Recommends that the possibility of obtaining extra-budgetary funds for the ex-pansion of Unesco’s social science activities related to illiteracy, urbanizationand population growth be explored;



84. Recommends that, in future biennia. more emphasis be placed on the socialscience programme of the Organization, with particular reference to proposedprojects for a social science clearing house, mathematical methods and com-puter utilization, the place of the social sciences in the planning of national sci-ence policies, and problems of population and family planning;

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Culture

85. Recommends that the efforts to attain the highest possible level of coherenceand efficiency in the Organization’s programme in the field of culture should becontinued;

86. Welcomes the fact that Unesco, mindful of the role the public authorities playin cultural work, is giving attention to the institutional, administrative and fi-nancial problems their work encounters within the new programme proposedconcerning cultural policies;

87. Emphasizes expressly the right to freedom of expression within the frameworkof any cultural policy;

88. Considering that cinema and television are among the important new techniquesfor artistic or literary creation, proposes that the responsibility of the Depart-ment of Culture in these fields be defined and developed;

89. Fully approves the studies of cultures and proposes considering the desirabilityof prolonging the project for the study on the civilizations of Central Asia until31 December 1972;

90. Recommends that resolution 3.33 (a) be amended as follows:

” (a) to promote and encourage artistic creation in contemporary societythrough increasing awareness of the new conditions under which cultureis disseminated among far wider sections of the public, through a com-parative study of the means and techniques of expression, particularlytelevision, and through participation, upon request, in Member States’activities in this field” ;

91. Ho es that the cultural festivals for youth as proposed in paragraph 1280 of-15 C /5 will be more clearly defined;

92. Expresses its keen satisfaction with regard to the proposed programme for arteducation and hopes that it will be extended in the future to other fields of artis-tic creation such as poetry;

93. Hopes that non-governmental organizations will play a greater part in the execu-tion of the programme in this field;

94. Notes with satisfaction the proposed programme for the preservation and pre-sentation of cultural heritage, and stresses the importance of libraries andmuseums in this programme;

95. Warmly recommends the programme for international campaigns and expressesthe hope that these campaigns will be extended to other monuments in other re-gions of the world, not only in order to encourage cultural tourism but also inorder to ensure the protection of these relics of ancient civilizations;

96. Proposes the study of the implications of publishing, from 1971 onwards, aUnesco periodical dealing with general problems of national cultural develop-ment, international cultural relations, the implementation of national culturalpolicies and the execution of Unesco projects concerned with culture;



COMMUNICATION

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Commends the Communication programme in its entirety in view of its con-centrated and well structured nature;

Notes withsatisfaction the comparative rate of growth proposed for this chap-ter, particularly in view of the new programme in documentation;

Recommends that the opening sentence of draft resolution 4.01 be revised toread “Member States are invited to intensify their efforts in the field of com-munication in line with the following suggestions:” ;

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Free flow of information and international exchanges

Calls particular attention to the interdepartmental programmes on the inter-national movement of persons and the migration of talent which should be thesubject of close co-ordination;

Recommends that the programmes in this chapter undertaken by Unesco bedesigned to assist Member States in formulating their policies with regardto the international movement of persons;

Favours, in the study of movements of persons, that it begin with the categoryof ” scientists, engineers and technologists” , making use of the body of in-formation already available in this field;

Notes the necessity for the above programmes as well as all parts of Unesco’sprogramme to help in the application of the Declaration of the Principles ofInternational Cultural Co-operation;

Draws attention to the programme for the promotion of the use of space com-munication to further Unesco’s aims which should continue to be developed inco-operation with the United Nations and ITU (cf. 78 EX/7) and the recom-mendations of the Board on the feasibility study, submitted by the Director-General, on launching a pilot project in this field, in India, and subsequentlyin Brazil (78 EX/Decisions 4.5.1);

Recommends that the Meeting of Government Experts be convened in the lastQuarter of 1969 in order to utilize the studies contemplated for 1969, and thatit consider as the principal areas of Unesco’s competence, the fields of (a)free flow of information, (b) copyright, and (c) the assessment of the require-ments of education, science and culture in thefor space telecommunication;

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Mass communication

of information media and theEmphasizes the importance of the programmetraining of information personnel of all media and expresses the hope thatfurther extra-budgetary funds from UNDP will be available to strengthen thisprogramme;

future allocation of frequencies

Commends the book production programme and the plan to extend the pro-gramme to the Arab Member States, and the organization of two regionaltraining courses in book production in Africa, and hopes that the programme



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for promoting book production and distribution will be extended in due courseto Latin America;

Expresses support for the symposium on the impact on youth and adults ofthe representation and exaltation of violence in the mass media, suggests theco-ordination of this activity with the programme for the interdisciplinarystudy of aggressiveness in the Social Sciences Section (paragraph 1202, 15 C/5)and hopes that such studies, separate and co-ordinated, will help elucidateand remove some of the causes of conflict;

Recommends that the educational and cultural content of televised programmesbe guided by their contribution to the development needs of society and worldpeace;

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Public information and promotion of international understanding

Suggests Unesco’s information programme continue through all media tostrengthen its contribution to peace and mutual understanding in the spirit ofthe United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2326 (XXII) of 16 December1967 on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independenceto Colonial Countries and Peoples;

Expresses satisfaction with the contents and popularity of the Unesco Courieras “a window on the world” and hopes that its circulation can be further im-proved;

Stresses the value to Member States of the Unesco coupon and gift couponschemes;

Recommends that National Commissions exchange background material for usewhen anniversaries of great personalities and events are commemorated;

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Documentation, libraries and archives

Notes with satisfaction the developing programme of documentation, librariesand archives;

Recommends the continuation of the centralization of the Secretariat’s docu-mentation and library services for the purpose of greater co-ordination andeconomy of resources in this field;

Expresses the hope that this programme will be given further financial re-sources in future beinnia;

Appreciates the well-planned programme in the field of libraries;

Commends plans for establishing library facilities in rural areas in supportof rural development and functional literacy programmes;

Considers that the manuscripts and rare editions component of libraries andarchives constitute cultural property which should benefit under Unesco’sactivities for the protection of the cultural heritage of mankind (paragraph1331, 15 C/5);

Recommends that more importance be given by the Organization to the col-lecting, cataloguing and housing of national archives particularly in the de-veloping countries;



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Statistics relating to education, science and technologyculture and communication

121. Notes the well-planned programme in statistics and emphasizes its directrelevance to other parts of the programme and its interest to Member States;

122. Calls attention to the importance of training statisticians in education, scienceand culture;

INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS, RELATIONS AND PROGRAMMES

123. Welcomes with satisfaction the whole of Part II, Chapter 5;

124. Endorses the proposal by the Director-General that questions involving inter-national standards and copyright to be integrated in the programme of the Or-ganization and entrusted to a single office;

125. Notes favourably the innovations introduced in the resolutions and work plansin respect of international standards, conventions and recommendations, copy-right, National Commissions, the Programme of Participation in the Activi-ties of Member States, together with international programmes, and recom-mends their approval by the General Conference.

(78 EX/SR. 19,20,21)

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Having studied the budget estimates and proposals for Part I - General Policyfrom a budgetary and technical point of view,

Takes note of the budget estimates proposed in document 15 C/5;

Draws the attention of the General Conference to the fact that if the proposalsof the Executive Board to supress the Summary Records of the Commissionsand Committees of the General Conference are adopted by it, a saving of$70.000 would be possible;

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Having examined the Draft Programme and Budget for 1969-1970 (15 C/5)from a financial, administrative and technical point of view,

Recosting

Considers that the amount of $4,269,400 for recosting the 1967- 1968 budgetis reasonable on present information about the trends of prices, salariesand allowances;

Invites the Director-General to continue to keep these factors under reviewso that the General Conference may have the most accurate estimate possibleof the amount necessary for the recosting element;

Methods of costing and budget techniques

Considers that the costing techniques applied to the various elements of indivi-dual projects (given the volume, nature and timing of the proposed activities)are sound and satisfactory;



Staff posts

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Noting with concern that since 1966 there has been a marked increase in thenumber of Secretariat posts upgraded as a result of reclassification,

Noting also with concern that the Director-General has requested 77 ad-ditional posts for 1969-1970, some of which additional posts have already beenset up in 1967-1968 within the 4% margin for established posts authorized bythe General Conference at its fourteenth session,

Considers that there should be a critical examination of the reclassificationsproposed for 1969-1970 with a view to reducing them;

Considers additionally that, in the light of the comments of the Board membersduring the 78th session, further consideration should be given to the need in theforthcoming biennium for all of the proposed posts additional to those establishedunder the Approved Programme and Budget for 1967-1968 in order to reducesubstantially the provision of some $1,400,000 contained in the draft programmeand budget for these two purposes;

Number of conferences

Noting that the conferences and meetings proposed for 1969-1970 comprise animportant part of the programme, and that the provision sought for this purposeat present amounts to over two million dollars,

Considers that a close review should be undertaken of the optimum size andlength of meetings with a view to reducing the cost falling on the Organizationin 1969-1970.

(78 EX/SR.21)

ITEM 6. GENERALCONFERENCE

6.1 Preparation of the Provisional Agenda of the fifteenth session of theGeneral Conference (78 EX/lO and Add. and Corr. )


1. Having regard to Rules 9 and 10 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Con-ference,

2. Having examined documents 78 EX/lO and 78 EX/lO Add. and Corr.,

3. Decides:

(a) that the provisional agenda of the fifteenth session of the General Conferenceshall comprise the items proposed in document 78 EX/lO subject to the fol-lowing additions, deletions and amendments:

(i) Add the following item after item 10:

“Implementation of the resolutions of the fourteenth session of theGeneral Conference regarding Unesco’s contributionto peace (14 C/Res-olution 10) and Unesco’s tasks in the light of the resolutions adoptedby the General Assembly of the United Nations at its twentieth sessionon questions relating to the elimination of colonialism and racialism(14 C/Resolution 11) (item proposed by the Union of Soviet SocialistRepublics)” ;


(b)


(ii) Item 28 to be worded as follows:

" 28. Composition of the Executive Board, duration of term of officeof members and method of election:

28. 1 Draft amendments to the Constitution (Article V) and to theRules of Procedure of the General Conference (Rules 95, 95A,96 and 97) submitted by the Executive Board; suspension ofcertain provisions of the Rules of Procedure and of the Rulesfor the Conduct of Elections by Secret Ballot, and adoption ofspecial provisions regarding the election of members of theExecutive Board at the fifteenth and sixteenth sessions of theGeneral Conference.

28.2 Draft amendments to the Constitution (Article V. A., paragraph2) submitted by Japan and Peru.

28.3 Draft amendments to the Constitution (Article V) and to theRules of Procedure of the General Conference (Rules 95A and96) (part of a term of office served by a member of the Execu-tive Board) submitted by the United States of America” ;

(iii) Item 29 to be worded as follows:” 29. Draft amendments to Rules of Procedure of the General Con-

ference.29.1 Summary records (Rules 55, 56, 58, 59, 60).29.2 Functions of the Legal Committee (Rule 32).” ;

(iv) Add the following new item after item 29:“Draft amendments to the Regulations for the general classificationof the various categories of meetings convened by Unesco” ;

(v) Item 30:” Draft amendments to the Statutes of the Intergovernmental Oceano-graphic Commission” , to be deleted.

that any other items submitted by Member States or Associate Members orby the United Nations, in accordance with Rule 9 of the Rules of Procedure,not later than one hundred days before the opening of the session (i.e. by 7July 1968 at the latest) shall be included by the Director-General in the pro-visional agenda, which shall then be communicated to Member States and As-sociate Members not later than ninety days before the opening of the session.

(78 EX/SR.22,31)

6.2 Organization of the work of the fifteenth session of the GeneralConference (78 EX/ll)


1. Having considered document 78 EX/ 11 in conjunction with the report of itsSpecial Committee (78 EX/2),

2. Approves the proposals contained in document 78 EX/ll, as amended duringthe discussion;

3 Invites the Director-General to prepare on this basis the document (15 C/2)containing the Executive Board’s recommendations concerning the organizationof the work of the fifteenth session and to forward it to Member States and As-sociate Members together with the Provisional Agenda for the session.

(78 EX/SR. 10, 11, 12, 22,23,31)



6.3 Invitations to the fifteenth session of the General Conference (78 EX/12 and Corr.)

6.4 Report of the Executive Board on its own activities

ITEM 7. RELATIONS WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

7.1 Recent decisions of the organizations of the United Nations system ofinterest to Unesco (78 EX/13 and Add. and 78 EX/37, Part III)


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Having examined document 78 EX/12 and Corr.,

Takes note of the notifications that the Director-General will send to MemberStates and Associate Members, in accordance with paragraph 1 of Rule 6 of theRules of Procedure, and of the invitations to organizations to be sent by himunder paragraphs 2, 3 and 5 of this Rule;

Decides that, under Rule 6.4 of the Rules of Procedure, the following Statesshall be invited to send observers to the fifteenth session of the General Con-ference:

BarbadosBotswanaGambiaHoly SeeMaldive IslandsNauruWestern SamoaPeople’s Republic of Southern Yemen

Decides to recommend that the General Conference, in accordance with Rule 7of the Rules of Procedure, admit to its fifteenth session observers from thefollowing organizations:

Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceCarnegie CorporationFord FoundationRockefeller Foundation

(78 EX/SR. 24)


1. Decides to submit to the General Conference at its fifteenth session a brieforal report on the Board’s activities in 1967-1968;

2. Requests the Chairman to prepare this report.

(78 EX/SR.24,31)


1. Having examined documents 78 EX/13 and Add,

2. Notes the recent decisions of interest to Unesco taken by the organizationsof the United Nations system since its 77th session;

3. Welcomes the opportunity which these resolutions give for Unesco to strengthenthose activities which lie within its competence in the fields of economic andsocial development;



4. Draws the attention of the General Conference and of the Director-Generalto the necessity within its sphere of competence, of intensifying Unesco’s ac-tion intended to assist peoples struggling to free themselves from colonial ruleand to liquidate all vestiges of colonialism;

5. Welcomes the “Memorandum of Understanding on Guidelines for Co-operationand Co-ordination of Activities between Unesco and UNIDO” signed in Genevaon 4 April 1968 by the Director-General and the Executive Director of UNIDO,and invites the Director-General to pursue his consultations with the ExecutiveDirector of UNIDO, along these guidelines with a view to presenting to a futuresession of the Board for its approval an agreement between Unesco and UNIDO.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

7.2 Co-operation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (78 EX/14and Annexes and Addendum and 78 EX/37, Part I)


1. Having reviewed the Director-General’s report on co-operation with the UnitedNations Development Programme (UNDP) (78 EX/14, its Annexes, I, II, III andIV and its Addendum),

2. Notes with satisfaction the preliminary planning of the Technical AssistanceComponent for 1969 and succeeding years which has been carried out in accord-ance with the new programming procedures approved by the United Nations Gene-ral Assembly;

3. Invites Member States to continue to review their priority needs for assistancein education, science, culture and communication and to submit to UNDP byJuly 1968 their requests for new projects in the above fields starting in 1969;

4. Notes the requests made by the Member States for Revolving Fund (TechnicalAssistance Contingency) financing of projects in the fields of Unesco’s compe-tence during 1967; and

5. Invites the Director-General to pursue his negotiations with UNDP on TechnicalAssistance Conteingency criteria and projects on the basis of directives of theBoard and General Conference, which include the fields of functional literacyand the preservation of cultural property in relation with the development oftourism;

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6. Notes with interest the study on future pre-investment needs and the emphasiswhich has been duly placed therein on education, science and technology;

7. Authorizes the Director-General, in the light of the comments made by mem-bers of the Board, to co-operate with the Administrator of UNDP in his studyof the administrative capacity of the United Nations system to administer alarger programme of aid to development financed through increased resourcesof UNDP;

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8. Notes the action of the Director-General pursuant to 14 C/Resolution 9.2 and77 EX/Decision, 6.2 paragraph 20 and invites him, through the Unesco Chiefsof Mission and other field staff, to assist the Administrator in the matter ofagreed counterpart contributions to projects;



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Notes with satisfaction that the Director-General and the Administrator ofUNDP have reached agreement regarding Unesco/UNDP guidelines for pro-gramme activities, and expresses the hope that the spirit of that understanding,which is in conformity with the provisions of resolution 7.III adopted by theGeneral Conference at its fourteenth session, will issue inincreased co-operationin the interest of Member States;

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Having continued its review of final reports of completed projects by a studyof the report on the School of Engineering, Morocco, including the note thereonsubmitted by the Government of Morocco,

Recalling its resolution on similar reviews recorded in 77 EX/Decision, 6.2 andexpressing its appreciation to the Government of Morocco for enabling the Boardto examine the report,

Felicitates the Government of Morocco on the successful establishment of theSchool of Engineering;

Invites the attention of the Director-General to the following comments on thereport:

(i) the valuable lessons to be drawn from the report in the planning and execu-tion of projects of this type, in particular, the importance of providing foradequate counterpart staff;

(ii) the importance of helping the Government of Morocco to assure a full com-plement of counterpart staff, taking into consideration the time necessaryfor the training of such staff;

(iii) the problems which graduates of new institutes of this type may face withregard to status and salary offered in newly-created services;

(iv) the conclusions to be drawn from the successful placement of students inindustry even before they have graduated;

(v) the desirability of assisting national authorities in defining the relation ofnew higher education institutions to the existing university structure ofthe country;

(vi) the need to continue to apply flexible criteria with regard to the require-ments for financial counterpart contributions in accordance with 14 C/Res-olution 9.2;

VI

Having reviewed Unesco’s participation in the Fund of the United Nations forthe development of West Irian (FUNDWI),

Authorizes the Director-General to continue and intensify Unesco’s co-operative programme with the Fund as means of assisting the Government ofIndonesia in promoting the educational development of West Irian.

(78 EX/SR. 26)



7.3 Co-operation with FA0 and IL0 in the field of agricultural education,science and training (78 EX/15 and Add. I and II, and 78 EX/37 Parts II and III)

The resolution adopted on this item of the agenda was dealt with in Section V of theExecutive Board’s recommendations on the draft programme and budget 15 C/5.Part II, Chapter 2, Natural Sciences (cf. above 5.1.B, paragraphs 56-67).

(78 EX/SR. 20)

7.4 Co-operation with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)(78 EX/16 and Add, I and II)


1. Having examined the report of the Director-General on Co-operation with theUnited Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) (78 EX/16, Add. I and II),

2. Reaffirming the necessity to ensure that children in UNRWA/Unesco educationalestablishments should receive education in accordance with the principles laiddown in resolution 6.8, adopted by the Executive Board at its 77th session,

3. Approves the steps taken by the Director-General to implement this resolutionboth as regards co-operation with the Commissioner-General of UNRWA andnegotiations with the Member States concerned,

4. Authorizes the Director-General to pursue his efforts in this respect notably bysetting up a commission of outside experts designated by the Director-Generalwith the agreement of the Member States concerned, with a view to:

(al examining the textbooks used in UNRWA/Unesco schools, in conformitywith resolution 6.8 adopted by the Board at its 77th session, and keepingin mind the debates of the Board at its 77th and 78th sessions, and

(b) making recommendations thereon which the Director-General would submitto the Member States concerned, for their assent and co-operation,

5. Notes the intention of the Director-General in response to the wish expressedby the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, to assign a Unesco official to thepost of UNRWA educational services in the West Bank of the Jordan and in theGaza strip,

6. Invites the Director-General to submit to the Executive Board at its spring ses-sion in 1969, or at an earlier session if he deems it appropriate, a report on theimplementation of this resolution, with any proposals on which he may considerit necessary or desirable to obtain the approval or authorization of the Board.

(78 EX/SR.24,25,27)

7.5 Co-operation with IBE (78 EX/17 and Add. )


1. Recalling decision 5.1 .B.II which it adopted at its 77th session, regarding apossible change in the relationship between Unesco and the International Bureauof Education (IBE);

2. Having examined the report submitted by the Director-General on this question(78 EX/17) and the draft agreement between Unesco and the IBE drawn up bythe Secretariats of the two Organizations, as well as the observations and sug-gestions made by the Executive Committee of the IBE in regard to this draftagreement;



3. Expresses its satisfaction with the result of the negotiations which took placebetween the two Secretariats;

4. Approves in principle the draft agreement drawn up as a result of these negotia-tions, particularly the text of Article 4, paragraph 2, of this agreement;

5. Considers that, in Article 5 of the draft agreement, all reference to the annualnature of the sessions of the International Conference on Public Educationshould be deleted;

6. Recommends that the General Conference, on the proposal of the Director-General, approve the allocation to the Centre for the period 1969-1970 of thesum of $500, 000, which may possibly involve adding $370, 000 to the Director-General’s budget estimates as contained in document 15 C/5;

7. Invites the Director-General to continue his negotiations with the Director ofthe International Bureau of Education on the lines indicated above and takinginto account the views expressed during the present session of the ExecutiveBoard, in order to establish a final draft which would be likely to be approvedby the Council of the IBE and by the General Conference at its fifteenthsession;

8. Requests the Director-General to take all appropriate measures to obtain pay-ment by the members concerned of arrears in their contributions to the IBE.

(78 EX/SR.3,4,9, 19,21)

7.6 Draft Agreement with the Organization of African Unity (OAU)(78 EX/34 and 78 EX/37 Part I)


1. Recalling that, at its 67th session, it authorized the Director-General to ne-gotiate with the Secretary-General of the OAU, in accordance with Article XIof Unesco’s Constitution, a draft agreement establishing official relations be-tween Unesco and the OAU with a view to rationalizing and harmonizing the ac-tivities of common interest to the two organizations and to submit this draftfor the approval of the Board,

2. Having examined the Director-General’s report entitled ” Draft Agreement withthe Organization of African Unity (OAU)” (78 EX/34),

3. Having examined the text of the draft agreement reproduced in the Annex todocument 78 EX/34,

4. Authorizes the Director-General to sign it on behalf of the Organization.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

7.7 Draft Agreement with the Joint Afro-Malagasy Organization (OCAM)(78 EX/18 and 78 EX/37 Part I)


1. Recalling that at its 77th session it authorized the Director-General to nego-tiate with the Secretary-General of OCAM, in accordance with the provisionsof Article XI of Unesco’s Constitution, a draft agreement establishing effectiveworking relations between Unesco and OCAM in fields of common interest tothe two organizations and to submit it to the Executive Board for approval,

2. Having examined the report by the Director-General entitled ” Draft Agreementwith the Joint Afro-Malagasy Organization (OCAM)” (78 EX/18),



3. Having examined the text of the draft agreement annexed to document 78 EX/18,

4. Approves the draft agreement; and

5. Authorizes the Director-General to sign it on behalf of the Organization.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

7.8 Transfer to Unesco of certain responsibilities and assets of the InternationalRelief Union (78 EX/19 and Add. and 78 EX/37 Part III)


1. Having examined documents 78 EX/19 and Add. concerning the transfer toUnesco of certain responsibilities and assets of the International Relief Union,

2. Takes note of the report of the Director-General and of the two draft agree-ments annexed thereto;

3. Invites the Director-General to continue negotiations with the InternationalRelief Union, taking into account the views expressed by the Executive Boardat its current session, in order to reach agreement on a common draft whichmight be submitted for approval to the General Conference at its fifteenth ses-sion.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

7.9 Classification of international non-governmental organizations(78 EX/20 and Corr. and Add. I and II and 78 EX/31 and Corr.)


1. Having examined documents 78 EX/20 and Corr., 78 EX/20 Add. and Add.11and 78 EX/31 and Corr., concerning the classification of non-governmentalinternational organizations,

2. Decides

(a) to admit the following organizations to category B (information and consul-tative relationship):

Asian Broadcasting UnionInternational Radio and Television OrganizationInternational Union of School and University Health and MedicineUnion of National Radio and Television Organizations of AfricaWorld Federation of Democratic YouthWorld Federation of Teachers’ Unions

(b) not to admit the following organizations to category B:

International Christian Union of Business ExecutivesInternational Council of Jewish WomenInternational Federation of Landscape ArchitectsInternational Hotel AssociationInternational Recreation AssociationInternational Union of Social Democratic Teachers

(c) to postpone to its spring 1969 session consideration of the applications

(i) for admission to category A of the World Federation of Teachers’Unions,



(ii)

3. Decides. . . that henceforth only applications for classification in category A or Bwhich reach the Secretariat before 31 December each year shall be forwardedto the Board for examination at the following spring session;

for admission to category B of the following organizations:

Children’s International Summer VillagesEuropean Federation of National Associations of EngineersInternational Association of Democratic LawyersInternational Civil Service Training OrganizationInternational Organization of JournalistsWorld Federation of Engineering OrganizationsWorld Union of Organizations for the Safeguard of Youth

4. Invites the Director-General to provide the Executive Board in its future workwith both a summary of the information supplied by organizations requestingadmission in categories A and B, and a critical appraisal of the contributionwhich these organizations already make or are in a position to make to the im-plementation of Unesco’s programme;

5. Takes note of paragraphs 23 to 26 of document 78 EX/20 and paragraph 10 ofdocument 78 EX/20 Addendum, regarding classification by the Director-Generalof non-governmental international organizations in category C (mutual informa-tion relationship), in accordance with the provisions of paragraph II. 2 of thedirectives concerning Unesco’s relations with non-governmental internationalorganizations.

(78 EX/SR.26,31)

7.10 Report by the Director-General on the statutes of the international non-governmental organizations in categories A and B particularly in regardto arbitration clauses (78 EX/21 and 78 EX/37 Part I)


1. Having reviewed document 78 EX/21,

2. Takes note of the Director-General’s report on the statutes of the internationalnon-governmental organizations in categories A and B particularly in regard toarbitration clauses;

3. Decides to refer the matter to its Committee on Non-Governmental Organizationswhich should study it further and submit a report to the Executive Board at a fu-ture session.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

7.11 Subvention for the International Association of Art (78 EX/22 and 78 EX/37 Part I)


1. Having reviewed document 78 EX/22 and taken note of the supplementary in-formation and recommendation presented orally by the Director-General,

2. Recalling the recommendations which it had already formulated in a resolutionin the course of its 77th session (77 EX/Decision 6.5, B),

3. Calls once more upon the International Association of Art to put an end, if pos-sible before the fifteenth session of the General Conference, to the internalconflict which has prevented it in recent months from playing its part in the im-plementation of the programme of Unesco;



4. Authorizes the Director-General to pay to the Association such part of theunexpended portion of the 1967-1968 subvention as he may deem necessary toenable the Association to convene, should it so decide, either an Extra-ordinary General Assembly or the Ordinary Assembly envisaged for 1969 andto meet its administrative expenses;

5 Invites the Director-General to submit to the next session of the ExecutiveBoard a report on the steps taken by the Association to secure greater har-mony as well as on the services rendered by the Association in the past, andto secure in adequate time, having regard to the date of the fifteenth sessionof the General Conference, an estimation of the tasks which it might accomplishin 1969-1970 as a contribution to the programme of Unesco;

6. Requests the Association, in drawing up its programme, to take the requisitemeasures to secure the participation of the artists of all its national sections,in a spirit of international understanding and co-operation.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

7.12 Co-operation with the African Development Bank (ADB) (78 EX/35 and78 EX/37 Part III)


1. Having considered the report of the Director-General on co-operation with theAfrican Development Bank (ADB),

2. Welcoming the interest shown by the ADB in the establishment of formal rela-tions with Unesco through the conclusion of an agreement,

3. Noting that the ADB would be prepared at the present stage to consider thefinancing of projects in any of Unesco’s spheres of competence and its prefer-ence for projects concerning the development of university and post-secondaryagricultural and technical education for which finance on concessionary termscould be provided by the proposed African Development Fund,

4. Authorizes the Director-General to undertake negotiations with the ADB witha view to the preparation of a draft agreement for submission to it at a futuresession.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

ITEM 8. ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL QUESTIONS

8.1 Acceptance of donations and special contributions (78 EX/23 and 78 EX/38 Part II)


1. Having examined the Director-General’s proposals concerning acceptance ofdonations and special contributions and the report on the establishment of trustfunds, reserve and special accounts contained in document 78 EX/23, and thereport of the Finance and Administrative Commission thereon (78 EX/38,Part II),

2. Authorizes the Director-General to accept and to add to the Appropriation ac-counts for 1967-1968 the following donations and special contributions for ac-tivities which fall within the approved programme:



3.

4.

5.

6.

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8.

9.

(a) To Appropriation Line II. 1 - Education . . . . . . . . . . . $10,148

From Thailand towards the maintenance and operationcosts of Unesco Regional Office for Education, Bangkok -$7, 148;

From the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizationtowards the cost of joint publication of the ” FAO-UnescoSource Book on Rural Studies in General Education” -$3) 000;

(b) To Appropriation Line II.2 - Natural Sciences and theirApplication to Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,000

From the International Biological Programme of theInternational Council of Scientific Unions towards the costof a joint IBP-Unesco symposium on methods of study insoil ecology - $3, 000;

From the Organization of American States towards thecosts of the symposium on continental drift - $1, 000;

(c) To Appropriation Line II. 5 - International Norms,Re la t i ons and Programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . $4,883

From Zambia towards the operational costs of the Officeof the Unesco Chief of Mission - 2, 12 7 Zambian pounds,equivalent to $4, 883.

II

Authorizes the Director-General to receive a bequest of $5,000 from the lateDennis J. Lavelle of the United States of America and to credit this sum to themiscellaneous income of the Organization in accordance with Financial Regula-tion 7.4;

Authorizes the Director-General to receive the bequest of E165.7. Id. fromthe late Beatrice Thomas of the United Kingdom and to credit this sum to thesub-account for literacy within the Special Account for Voluntary Contributions;

Authorizes further the Director-General to accept from the Pacific Press ofVancouver a linotype machine for use by the Fundamental Education Centre forCommunity Development in Latin America, Patzcuaro, Mexico;

III

Having been advised by the Director-General of the second donation of2, 000, 000 Malian francs by the Government of the Republic of Mali,

Expresses its deep appreciation of this gesture in aid of world literacy;

Authorizes the Director-General to accept this sum on behalf of Unesco;

IV

Takes note of the report of the Director-General on the establishment of aSpecial Account for Voluntary Contributions towards Special Education forHandicapped Children and Young People which will be administered by him inaccordance with the Financial Regulations of the Special Account for VoluntaryContributions established by the Executive Board at its 72nd session.

(78 EX/SR. 26,31)



8.2 Increases in salaries, allowances, pension contributions and other unforeseenexpenses which have arisen or may arise during 1967-1968 and their financing(78 EX/24 and 78 EX/38 Part II)


1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Having examined the further report made by the Director-General concerningthe increase in salaries, allowances, pension contributions, and other unfore-seen expenses which have arisen or may arise during 1967-1968 and their fi-nancing (78 EX/24) as well as the report of the Finance and AdministrativeCommission thereon (78 EX/38 Part II),

Takes note of the report of the Director-General and of the steps taken byhim to accommodate part of the unforeseen expenses within the original appro-priations;

Recalling the provisional measures taken at its 76th and 77th sessions regardingadvances from the Working Capital Fund (76 EX/Decisions, item 6.3 and77 EX/Decisions, item 7.2).

Authorizes the Director-General, in conformity with resolution 28 adopted bythe General Conference at its fourteenth session, and as a provisional measure,to advance from the Working Capital Fund and to add to the appropriations forfor 1967-1968 a sum of $1,350, 180 (including a sum of $782,000 authorized bythe Board at its 77th session) necessary to meet the Organization’s known ad-ditional commitments for both 1967 and 1968: (a) arising as a result of amend-ments to the Regulations of the Joint Staff Pension Fund, and (b) for paymentof post adjustments for Professional staff and above and salary adjustments forGeneral Service staff;

Invites the Director-General to submit a further report, including a statementof savings which have arisen or are likely to arise during 1967-1968, to theBoard at its 79th session.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

8.3 Progress report on the trends of expenditure in 1967 (78 EX/25 and78 EX/38 Part II)

The Executive Board.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Having examined the Progress Report by the Director-General indicating thetrends of expenditure for the first twelve months of the 1967-1968 biennium(78 EX/25),

Noting that the integrated presentation is an improvement over the past reportsand gives a more comprehensive view of the trends and of their salient charac-teristics,

Takes note of the information provided therein and in particular that the ap-pointment of experts constitutes one of the major difficulties in implementingthe integrated programmes, expresses its appreciation of the action taken bythe Director-General in carrying out a study of the problem, and stresses theimportance of adopting all appropriate measures to improve the situation;

Invites the Director-General to present such reports to the Executive Board infuture at the end of the first year and at the conclusion of eighteen months ofeach biennium;

Requests the Director-General to pursue his suggestion for combining this re-port with his printed reports on the activities of the Organization.

(78 EX/SR. 26)



8.4 Level of the Working Capital Fund (78 EX/26 and 78 EX/38 Part II)


1. Having examined the report of the Director-General on the level of the WorkingCapital Fund (78 EX/26),

2. Agrees with the conclusion of the Director-General that the level of the Fundshould not be increased for 1969-1970;

3. Recommends to the General Conference that the level of the Fund for 1969-1970 be maintained at $3,800,000.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

8.5 Consultations regarding appointments to the Secretariat: general appointmentspolicy and structure of the Secretariat (Rule 54(3) of the Rules of Procedure ofthe Board) (in private meeting)

In accordance with Rule 54(3) of the Rules of Procedure, the Director-General con-sulted the Executive Board, in private meeting, regarding general policy in thematter of appointments to posts in the Secretariat and regarding the structure of theSecretariat. This consultation gave rise to a broad exchange of views between themembers of the Board and the Director-General both on these matters and on theprocedure for consultations regarding them.

(Adopted in private meeting, 17 June 1968)

8.6 Remuneration of personnel (78 EX/27 and Add. and 78 EX/38 Part II and Add. )

The Executive Board.

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2.

3.

4.

5.

I

Having examined document 78 EX/27,

Takes note of the report made by the Director-General concerning staff re-muneration and of the clarifications concerning the consultations which he isundertaking, including reference of this question to the June session of theICSAB;

II

Having examined document 78 EX/27 Add. 1,

Takes note of the report made by the Director-General concerning GeneralService category staff remuneration;

Authorizes the Director-General to increase the adjustment of 1 May 1968 from2% to 5%.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

8.7 Recruitment of field staff (78 EX/28 and Corr. and 78 EX/38 Part II)

The

1.

2.

Executive Board,

Having examined document 78 EX/28 and Corr.,

Notes with satisfaction the study carried out by the Secretariat and the sugges-tions for improving the procedure for recruitment of field staff;



3. Invites the Director-General to bring the aforementioned document to the at-tention of Member States and more especially to the recruitment sources inthe hope that the proposals contained therein will help towards an appreciableimprovement in the recruiting procedures.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

8.8 Briefing and in-service training of staff (78 EX/29 and 78 EX/38 Part II)


1. Broadly approves the scheme for staff briefing and in-service training outlinedin document 78 EX/29, and urges the Director-General to continue developing it;

2. Invites the Director-General to continue his consultations with the other UnitedNations organizations and UNITAR.

. (78 EX/SR. 26)

8.9 Regulations of the Unesco Staff Savings and Loan Service (78 EX/30 and78 EX/38 Part II)


1. Having examined document 78 EX/30,

2. Takes note of the establishment of the trust fund to finance the Unesco StaffSavings and Loan Service, and of the regulations relating thereto.

(78 EX/SR. 26)

ITEM 9. OTHER BUSINESS

9.1 Time-table of sessions of the Board and meetings of subsidiary bodies in 1968

1. The Executive Board confirmed its previous decisions or arrangements regard-ing its work time-table for 1968:

79th session: 29 August - 13 September 196880th session: 9-14 October 1968 (and during the fifteenth session of the

General Conference)81st session: 21-22 November 1968Committee on Discrimination in Education: 15-26 July 1968

(78 EX/SR. 1,31)


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