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The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization held its sixteenth session in Paris on June 9, 1949. Following a Polish protest that the French Government had withheld a visa from a Polish delegate, it was moved by the Brazilian delegate (Carniero) that steps be taken to insure that diplomatic immunity be extended to all members of the UNESCO executive board as well as to members of the governing bodies of other international agencies. After discussing the question, the representatives considered the Director General's (Bodet) report on the activities of UNESCO for the period from February 1 to June 1,1949.

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.

Forty-sixth session: The 46th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Executive Board was held at New Delhi on December 6, 1956, under the chairmanship of Dr. Vittorino Veronese (Italy). The Board established a special committee to consider draft comments for presentation to the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations at the latter's meeting on March 11, 1957; it also established a working party to prepare a plan to which member states would be requested to conform in drawing up their reports on "developments and the progress achieved in the field of human rights". Other recommendations dealt with long-term proposals for the future conduct of the UNESCO Institutes in the Federal Republic of Germany and relations with the preparatory commission of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Included among the meetings organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) from July 1957 to January 1958 were a number of international conferences. The twentieth international conference on public education, organized by UNESCO and the International Bureau of Education, was held in Geneva from July 8 to 17, 1957, and attended by delegates of 70 member states. One recommendation adopted by the conference was concerned with the study of present and future needs in school building, while a second dealt with methods of appointment, training, and further education of staff engaged in the training of primary school teachers. The international conference on radio-isotopes in scientific research met in Paris, September 9–20, 1957. Twelve hundred scientists attended the conference, during which forty scientific sessions were conducted.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its eleventh General Conference in Paris from November 14 to December 15, 1960, under the presidency of Mr. Akale-Work Abte-Wold (Ethiopia). Ninety-eight member states of UNESCO participated in the Conference compared with the 75 that were members in 1958 at the time of the tenth General Conference. The General Conference approved the program of activities for 1961–1962 and unanimously voted a budget of $32,513,228 to finance it; to this amount was added over $12 million provided by the United Nations Technical Assistance Fund to enable UNESCO to carry out many additional educational and scientific projects. UNESCO was also to act as executing agency for seventeen projects concerning higher technical education, for which the UN Special Fund was to provide more than $11 million in 1961–1962. Also allocated by the Conference was $915,000 for the construction of an additional building in Paris, the total cost of which was to be $3,535,000.

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.

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.

At the conclusion of the First General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization held in Paris during November and December, 1946, over one hundred proposals had been formulated for consideration during 1947, several of which were enumerated as being pressing projects for the current year. Problems requiring immediate attention included 1) rehabilitation in devastated areas, 2) a wide-spread attack on the problem of illiteracy, 3) a study of psychological and social tensions likely to lead to war, 4) a concerted effort in conjunction with the Commission of Human Rights of the United Nations to reduce obstructions to the free flow of information, 5) the study of a possible international broadcasting network, and 6) the proposed creation of the International Institute of the Amazon in order to deal with problems of that tropical area. For these and other projects it was emphasized that exchange of students, scholars, scientists and media of information was necessary and should be forthcoming.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its tenth General Conference in Paris from November 4 through December 5, 1958, under the presidency of Mr. Jean Berthoin (France). The General Conference recognized as valid the credentials of the delegations of 78 member states, the delegations of 4 associate members, and observers from 2 non-member states. The Conference had before it the report of the Director-General, covering the activities of the organization during 1957 and through September 1958, and the proposed program and budget for 1959–1960. The Director General summed up the activities of UNESCO in 1957–1958 by stating that these years had been marked by the launching of three Major Projects, by the coordinated expansion of the Expanded Program of Technical Assistance and of the program of participation in the activities of member states, by world-wide interest in certain particular achievements in the ordinary program, by a greater degree of concerted action within the UN system, and by the inauguration of UNESCO's definitive head-quarters in Paris on November 3, 1958.

The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization held its twenty-eighth session in Paris October 23 to November 1, 1951. With the design of implementing the UNESCO twelve-year fundamental educational program to improve education and living standards in all the underdeveloped areas of the world and in accordance with the General Conference decision to build a network of regional centers to formulate teacher training methods, the board chose Sevsel Layyam, Egypt as the second regional training center. This village, 40 miles from Cairo, was selected, because it appeared typical of communities in lower Egypt and in the Arab nations in general. Representatives from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria were expected to begin a twenty-one month course of study early in 1952. However, should unsettled conditions in Egypt forestall its operation, the Board would select an alternate site in the Philippines. A $235,000 allocation of the 1952 budget was approved by the board for the operation of the Egyptian and the Patzcuaro, Mexico centers. The board urged UNESCO members to provide fellowships to Korea for assistance in the educational reconstruction of the country. This request was. based upon a report by the Director-General (Bodet) which states that 57 percent of the teachers' training colleges and high schools in Korea had been destroyed by the war, teachers to training colleges had been reduced 41 percent and high school instructors 54 percent. The board appointed Ronald Adam (United Kingdom) and Constantine K. Zurayk (Syria) to serve with Mr. Bodet on a joint commission of the Organization of American States and UNESCO. A single draft covenant on human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, was favored by the board.

The report of the Director-General (Torres-Bodet) on the activities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization from April 1951 to July 1952 stated that "remarkable progress" had been made during these fifteen months. The Director-General reported that the number of member states rose from 60 to 65, a "more precise conception of aims" resulted in better coordination of endeavor and greater economy in drawing up the program, and that methods of action improved. The report was divided into four parts which dealt with execution of the program, action in the field of international cooperation, administrative and financial questions, and the work of the Executive Board. It revealed that the organization was attempting to promote international cooperation among specialists in two ways: one, by lending its authority to and aiding financially the work of international non-governmental organizations of specialists, and the other, by attempting to compensate for the inadequacy of the national sections of such organizations in some areas through direct action of its science cooperation offices. UNESCO action relating to international organization of specialized documentation also was two-fold: it was concentrating on organizing the national and international standardization, collection and dissemination of specialized documentation; and it had established responsible services within the secretariat, in cooperation with international organizations and national commissions, for assembling and distributing information on program matters. Other phases of UNESCO action described included its work in stimulating and assisting its members to provide their peoples with a minimum of general, technical and moral education knownas fundamental education; expanding primary, secondary and vocational education; promoting higher education and scientific research; protecting writers, artists and scientists; preserving the cultural heritage of mankind; disseminating science and culture; attempting to remove obstacles to the free flow of ideas, concentrating mainly on the international circulation of educational and cultural materials; and studying social problems likely to create national and international tensions.