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the nations in the region for which the Bureau of European Affairs 

 (EUR) has jurisdiction involves not only more concentrated but also 

 more sophisticated technical matters than does the Bureau of African 

 Affairs. The former has a share of responsibility for NATO and OECD 

 matters and also educational and cultural exchanges with the U.S.S.R. 

 Shared interests of EUR ^^^tll OES would appear to be extensive and 

 functional. Secretary Kissinger's pledge of mutual science and tech- 

 nolog}" programs with other hemispheric nations v/ovtld also seem to 

 imply an enlargement in the planning and operational concerns of the 

 Bureau of Inter-American Affairs on technical matters. 



However, as a practical matter, every region in the Department's 

 organizational scheme has substantial concern with science and tech- 

 nology at some level of sophistication and development. The less- 

 developed nations seek help in organizing institutions and in planning 

 programs; the more-developed nations are more interested in ex- 

 changes of information and personnel. Both situations imply activity 

 and the rising rate of technological change since World War II imphes 

 an increase in the technological ingredient of regional diplomacy. 



SPECIAL CASE OF BUREAU OF IXTERXATIOXAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS 



The Bureau of International Organization Affairs (10) appears to 

 have some of the characteristics of both the regional and the func- 

 tional bureaus.^** It is in general the channel between the U.S. Govern- 

 ment and international organizations and conferences. These include 

 the United Nations and the associated organizations within the U.N. 

 family— UNESCO, World Health Organization, and others. How- 

 ever, with respect to the fields of science and technology its role ap- 

 pears to be primarily organizational and administrative more than 

 substantive. That is, 10 recruits U.S. personnel to staff U.N. agencies, 

 coordinates U.S. participation in international conferences, defends 

 and administers appropriations for U.N. activities (scientific or other), 

 and "formulates and coordinates United States foreign policies on . . . 

 scientific . . . matters under consideration by the U.N., other inter- 

 national organizations and afhUates thereof not specifically assigned 

 to other areas of the Department." ^*^ 



There is in 10 a small science and technology unit, designated as 

 lO/SCT, consisting of three professional officers. These perform the 

 10 functions in relation to the International Atomic Energy Agency, 

 the U.N. Science Ofl&ce, the U.N. Environmental Program, and the 

 World Meteorological Organization; other elements in 10 are con- 

 cerned with health (World Health Organization), transport and 

 communications, and UNESCO affairs. 



On this point Herman Pollack comments: 



In my view the existing arrangement for relationships between the United 

 States and the UN technical agencies is fundamentally sound. Under it the basic 

 responsibihty for the technical relationship lies with the mission agency while 

 the political, parliamentarian and administrative relationship is with the Depart- 

 ment of State. It is in the area of coordination as among UN technical programs 

 and in oversight that United States performance is weak. Improvement will 



»8 As one interested party observed: "The Bureau of International Orgamzation has [some] functions 

 analogous to those of the geographic bureaus and others analogous to those of the functional bureaus. 

 Source: John Keppel, " Undersecretary for Functional Affairs," Foreign Service Journal 46 (March 196y), 

 51. 

 1" U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of State Organizational Manual, 1967, p. FAM 340. 



P. 51. 



