United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1956 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-489
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Director General ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
American States ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Regional Conference ◽  
Rules Of Procedure

40th session: The 40th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Executive Board was held in Montevideo, Uruguay on December 11, 1954, under the chairmanship of Dr. Arcot L. Mudaliar (India). The Board approved a few drafting amendments to its Rules of Procedure as a result of amendments made to the Constitution by the eighth session of the General Conference; it postponed further discussion of drafting amendments to the rules until the Board's 41st session. After electing the chairmen for the finance commission, the program commission and the external relations commission, the Board requested its Bureau to submit proposals on membership to the permanent commissions to its next session. The Board authorized the Director-General to continue consultations with the Organization of American States (OAS) in regard to a regional conference in Latin America in 1956 on the extension of free and compulsory school education, and if possible, to prepare and convene such a conference in Brazil in the fall of 1955 in association with OAS.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-425
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Director General ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
American States ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
Fundamental Education

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

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-148
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Director General ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
General Organization

The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization held its 36th session in Paris, November 30 through December 9, 1953, under the chairmanship of General Sir Ronald Adam. The Board requested the Director-General to submit detailed proposals for the organization of the eighth session of the General Conferenceto the Board's 37th session. In preparing these, he was to take into account the views expressed by the Board, particularly those concerng arrangements for discussion of the Director-General's report, discussion of the draft program and budget estimates, general organization of meetings, voting procedure, and documents and records. organization of meetings, voting procedure, and documents and records. The Board recommended that the eighth session of the General Conference revise its rules of procedure to provide that, in case of doubt as to whether a proposed amendment was an amendment of substance or an amendment of form, it be deemed an amendment of substance unless a two-thirds majority favored interpreting it otherwise. The Board also requested member states to submit their reports for the eighth session of the Conference to the Director-General not later than April 15, 1954.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-652
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Financial Regulations ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
The United Nations

The thirtieth session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization met at UNESCO House in Paris from May 26 to June 6, 1952. The board approved a provisional agenda for the seventh session of the UNESCO General Conference, which was scheduled to open on November 12, as well as proposals concerning the organization of its work. The board decided that the fourth meeting of representatives of national commissions should be held on November 8 and 10 and December 11, and approved the Director-General's proposals regarding the agenda for this meeting. Draft amendments to the rules of procedure of the General Conference, to the financial regulations, and to the directives concerning relations with international non-governmental organizations, necessitated by adoption of the system of biennial sessions of the General Conference, were approved.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1963 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 282-286 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Director General ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
United Arab Republic ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Southern Rhodesia

The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its 61st session in Paris from May 7 to May 29, 1962, under the chairmanship of Dr. Mohamed Awad (United Arab Republic). The Executive Board heard the Acting Director General's oral report on the activities of UNESCO since December 1961 and then reviewed the Acting Director-General's proposals on the Emergency Program of Financial Aid to Member States and Associate Members in Africa. It recommended that the Acting Director-General examine the possibility of carrying out the project for the establishment of a center for the production of school textbooks in Ethiopia and authorized allocations of $100,000 each for assisting educational planning in Southern Rhodesia and the Ivory Coast. The Board renewed its appeal to member states to continue contributing the emergency program so that at least the present deficit of $750,000 would be covered. The Acting Director-General was invited to report to the twelfth General Conference of UNESCO, to meet from November 9 to December 12, 1962, on the Organization's activities within the framework of the civilian operations of the UN in the Congo.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 720-722
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
General Education ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Working Party ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Director General ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The United Nations

The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization held its sixteenth session in Paris from June 9 to 15, 1949. At the first meeting Jaime Torres Bodet, Director-General, drew attention to the main points in his report on the activities of the organization since the fourteenth session. One of the questions which he considered essential and to which he drew the Board's attention was coordination between the United Nations and the specialized agencies as regards technical assistance to underdeveloped countries. In conformity with the decisions of the fifteenth (extraordinary) session of the Executive Board, UNESCO was represented by two members on a working party which met at Lake Success in March and drew up a series of projects for consideration by the United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination. A second question concerned general education; the two missions sent by UNESCO to the Philippines and Siam had concluded their work with very encouraging results. The foundation of two new national commissions, those of India and Switzerland, was reported.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-561
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Director General ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Fundamental Education ◽  
Set Up

Executive Board37th Session: The 37th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Executive Board was held in Paris from March 10 to April 9, 1954, under the chairmanship of Sir Ronald Adam. At its opening meeting, the Board heard oral reports from the chairman, Professor Oscar Secco Ellauri and the Director-General on a visit they had made to member states in Asia. The report of the Director-General on the activities of UNESCO in 1953 was considered by the Board in conjunction with the draft program of work and budget estimates for 1955–1956 prepared by the Director-General and the preparation of recommendations to the General Conference. The Board approved comments to be made in communicating the report of the Director-General to member states, and also a report on its own work during 1953. Various modifications in the Director-General's draft program and budget estimates for 1955–1956 were recommended by the Board, which decided to prepare its recommendations to the eighdi session of the General Conference at its 38th session, on the basis of the revised draft to be presented at that time by the Director-General. The Board approved reports from the Program Commission on Fundamental Education Centers and the special committee set up to study questions relating to subventions to non-governmental organizations.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-453
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Director General ◽  
Present Level ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Level Of Activity ◽  
The United Nations

The twenty-ninth session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, March 13–April 7, 1952, devoted most of its attention to the draft program and budget for 1953 and 1954. In presenting the drafts, the Secretary-General (Torres-Bodet) pointed out that they had been prepared, insofar as possible, to allow for a probable gap between UNESCO's actual resources and its theoretical budget brought about by members in arrears in contributions. In addition, the suggestions of the General Conference and the Economic and Social Council on program priorities had been followed. If UNESCO were to maintain its present level of activity, he continued, it would be necessary for the assessed budgets for each of the years 1953 and 1954 to be $9,895,029, an increase of $1,267,029 each year over the 1952 figure. Any expansion of the program, and the Director-General several times expressed opposition to stabilizing the program at its present level, would involve an even greater increase.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-327 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Basic Program ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Director General ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization

Meeting in December 1949 for its eighteenth session, the Executive Board of UNESCO elected Sir John Maud (United Kingdom) as its chairman for 1949–50. The Board devoted most of its attention to the work of the fifth General Conference which it decided to convene in Florence, Italy, on May 22, 1950; the chief task of the Conference would be to consider the “streamlined” program of operations approved by the fourth General Conference in Paris in 1949. The Board decided to abandon the practice of an opening general debate adopted at the Paris conference and to substitute a general discussion of the Director-General's report, thus permitting the delegations to go fully into the aims and policies of the organization. In preparation for the conference, the Executive Board instructed its program committee to prepare a program of three parts: 1) a basic program of operations, 2) a list of methods by which the program could be implemented, and 3) a work plan for 1951. At the same session, the Board authorized the Director-General to establish liaison with the Council of Europe as a part of UNESCO's program of cooperation with regional organizations. In view of the fact that the Council had created and intended to create no machinery for educational and cultural purposes, the Executive Board instructed the Director-General to examine the possibility of concluding an agreement with the Council in order that UNESCO might carry out certain phases of educational and cultural activity on its behalf.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1956 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 640-642
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Director General ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The United Nations

Executive Board The 43d session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Executive Board was held in Madrid from April 9 to 19, 1956 under the Chairmanship of Sir Arcot L. Mudaliar. The Board decided to postpone consideration of the report of the Director General covering the activities of UNESCO in 1955 until the July session, at which time the report for the first six months of 1956 could also be discussed. A preliminary report on the activities of the first three months of 1956 was noted with satisfaction.

United Nations Educational, scientific and Cultural Organization

1958 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-226 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Arid Lands ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Previous Session ◽  
Major Project

The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its 48th session in Paris from June 3 to 20, 1957, under the chairmanship of Dr. Vittorino Veronese. After approving work plans for carrying out in 1957–1958 two major projects which had been endorsed by the ninth session of the General Conference, the Board allocated 1957–1958 budgets of $839, 209 for the first project, a ten-year plan for the promotion of better cultural understanding between east and west, and $500,000 for the second, a six-year project for scientific research on arid lands. A third major project, concerned with extension of primary education in Latin America, had been approved by the Board at its previous session.

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