Coramittee for the IOC, should be taken without the above 

 analysis and assessment having been accomplished and without 

 a decision having been taken by the IOC as a whole. This 

 view was shared by the delegates of France and the USSR. 

 Ambassador McKernan stated that his Government supported 

 strongly the idea of establishing an Interagency Committee 

 (or Board) for the IOC in order to provide for closer, links 

 between the organizations of the United Nations System inter- 

 ested in supporting the Commission's work. At the request 

 of Ambassador McKernan, the Secretary distributed a Secre- 

 tariat paper projecting IOC Secretariat needs (see Annex IV). 



On the basis of this discussion the Chairman established a 

 small drafting group (United Kingdom, USA, USSR, France, 

 Federal Republic of Germany) to draft a letter to the Director- 

 General of UNESCO for the signature of the Commission's Chair- 

 man, covering the following items: 



1. A statement of the principles contained in the report 

 of the group of consultants that the Bureau and Consultative 

 Council agrees upon. 



2. A statement of the differences of opinion that still 

 exist within the Bureau and Consultative Council regarding 

 questions and problems touched upon in the report, with 

 reference to the following items: 



a. The seconding of personnel to the Secretariat 



of IOC from other agencies or from States Members 

 of the Commission, taking into account geographi- 

 cal distribution and possible differences in 

 salaries^ 



b. The problems related to a separation of the 

 Secretariat of the IOC from the Office of 

 Oceanography of UNESCO] 



c. The proposed Interagency Committee for IOC, 

 its functions and its terms of reference; 



d. Any further items coming up during the discussions 



3. A request directed to the Director-General of UNESCO 

 to present to the Sixth Session of IOC a preliminary outline 

 of the measures and timetable as regards the broadening of 

 the Secretariat of IOC and the machinery for Interagency 

 co-operation related thereto, drawn up by the Executive Board 

 of UNESCO and forwarded to the Secretariat of the Commission 



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