International Civil Aviation Organization

1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-641 ◽  

The twenty meetings of the 35th session of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) were held between November 12 and December 17, 1958, except for the first meeting which was called during the committee phase on September 25. At its last meeting the Council unanimously decided to appoint Mr. R. M. McDonnell of Canada, Secretary General of ICAO to succeed Carl Ljungberg of Sweden, who had served in that post for more than seven years. Additional elections and appointments, inter alia, included: W. G. Algar of Ireland, First Vice- President of the Council for 1958–1959; Col. E. Chagas of Brazil, Second Vice-President; Henry Soderberg of Sweden, Third Vice-President; J. R. Belcher of Canada, Chairman of the Finance Committee.

1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-414

From January 13 to March 26, 1953, the eighteenth session of the Council of the International Civil AviationOrganization met in Montreal. Activities at this session were predominantly concerned with matters pertaining to the seventh session of the ICAO Assembly, which was scheduled to open in June in Brighton, England. It was decided that invitations to the Assembly should be extended to Japan and Libya, invitations were also approved for those international organizations which had been invited to the fourth session of the Assembly and to the Organization of American States and the Council of Europe, and supporting documentation for items on the Assembly agenda was approved. On the recommendation of the Finance Committee a total budget for the organization for the fiscal year 1954 of Canadian $3,289,606 was approved for submission to the Assembly. Assessments for 1953 were then fixed at two units each for Korea and Libya, the two newest members of the organization.


1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-140

The seventeenth session of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization opened in Montreal on September 9, 1952 and concluded on December 5. The Council sanctioned the holding of a special frequency meeting to consider certain problems associated with frequency assignments in the European-Mediterranean region in Paris in October and decided that the first ICAO Air Navigation Conference should be convened in Montreal in February 1953. After discussion and exchange of views, the draft agenda for the 1953 ICAO Assembly was referred to the Air Navigation Commission, the Air Trans-port Committee, the Finance Committee, and the Committee on Joint Support of Air Navigation Services for their consideration and report. After withdrawal by the French government of its invitation to hold the seventh session of the Assembly in France, the Council accepted the invitation of the United Kingdom and decided to hold the seventh session in Brighton, England, opening on June 16, 1953.


1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-359

Second Session: Shortly before the adjournment of the second session of the ICAO Council, a resolution was unanimously adopted accepting for the permanent organization the responsibilities imposed upon the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization under the International Agreement on North Atlantic Ocean Weather Stations concluded in London on September 25, 1946. The Council also approved the sending of a technical mission in answer to Iceland's request for financial aid, and authorized the Secretary General (Roper) to assume certain responsibilities for the premises of the International Commission for Air Navigation and for the distribution of its assets. The Council ended its second session on December 12, 1947.


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