discussions in the Intergovernmental Oceanographlc Commission^ 

 the UN General Assembly, and in consultation with the Executive 

 Board of UNESCO and that the Director-General would look to 

 the Bureau and Consultative Council for guidance in this 

 connection. 



Mr. De Jammet (France) stated that France was in favor of 

 creating an Interagency Committee for the IOC, on the clear 

 understanding that the program decisions would still belong 

 to the plenary sessions of the Intergovernmental Oceanographlc 

 Commission, and also expressed his Government's agreement with 

 the possibility of contributions from agencies in addition to 

 UNESCO for the support of the IOC's work. He expressed, how- 

 ever, his Government's reservations as regards contributions 

 from IOC Member States in terms of both money and personnel, 

 stating that if the practice of seconding personnel from IOC 

 Members to the Secretariat on a permanent basis were to be 

 adopted it might create problems in defining the status of 

 the seconded personnel and that such a practice would tend 

 to favor rich countries rather than countries with modest means. 

 Professor Muromtsev (USSR) concurred. Ambassador McKernan, 

 however, did not concur with this point of view and subsequently 

 requested that the report of the meeting include the United 

 States view that no member nation should be limited in the 

 number of individuals it could second to the Commission. 



Following this general exchange of views, discussion of 

 document IOC/B-48 proceeded paragraph by paragraph. During 

 this discussion it became evident that the way the Recommenda- 

 tions of Consultants were worded often led to conflicting 

 interpretations, in particular as regards the proposed func- 

 tions for an Interagency Committee for the IOC and problems 

 related to the IOC Secretariat. 



The Secretary, speaking in his capacity as the representative 

 of the Director-General of UNESCO suggested that the Bureau " 

 and Consultative Council consider the desirability of estab- 

 lishing in 1969 an Interagency Committee for the IOC and 

 setting down the proposed functions for such a Committee. 

 In so doing the Bureau and Consultative Council would provide 

 valuable guidance to the Director-General of UNESCO who, after 

 having consulted the Executive Board of UNESCO at its April- 

 May 1969 session, vjould be prepared to go ahead expeditiously with 

 implementation of Resolution 2.3'^3. 



Mr. Lee (U. K. ) expressed the concern of his Government with 

 the slow progress being made toward a thorough analysis and 

 assessment of the Commission's program and consequent require- 

 ments in secretariat staff and funding from now until at least 

 1973. He stressed his Government's point of view that no 

 further steps towards implementation of the Recommendations 



of Consultants, including the establishment of an Interagency 



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