b. to provide the Secretary-General of the 

 United Nations with a further, more de- 

 tailed report following the Sixth Session 

 of IOC for consideration by the resumed 

 47th Session of ECOSOC In November I969. 



Recommendation 9-5 



The Bureau, noting that In Resolution 2,342 (b) 

 of the 15th UNESCO General Conference a reference 

 Is made to the liaison between IOC activities and 

 those of SCOR and lAPSO, recalling that SCOR and 



ACMRR have been designated by the IOC as Its 

 official scientific advisory bodies, reaffirms 

 that SCOR and ACMRR continue to be official 

 scientific advisory bodies to the Commission. 



Recommendation 9'^ 



The Bureau approved the text of the draft 

 letter to be sent by the Chairman of the Commission 

 to the Secretary-General of the United Nations con- 

 cerning the outline of the scope of the long-term 

 and expanded programme of oceanographlc research 

 and the set of questions directed to the advisory 

 bodies of the Commission in connection with the 

 content of this programme. 



Recommendation 9-7 



The Bureau Instructed the Secretary to circulate 

 copies of the above letter for information to all the 

 Members of the IOC with the shortest possible delay. 



Recommendation 9»8 



The Bureau, having considered with the Consulta- 

 tive Council (a) the Report of the Secretary-General 

 on Marine Science and Technology (Doc. E/4487), (b) 

 Resolutions I380, 1381 and 1382 (XLV) adopted by the 

 UN Economic and Social Council on August 2, 1968; 



(c) the report of the group of consultants appointed 

 under Recommendation 8.4 of the Bureau and Consulta- 

 tive Council, which met in Paris October 10-12, 1968; 



(d) Resolutions 2.34l, 2.342, 2.343 and 2.344 adopted 

 by the 15th General Conference of UNESCO in November 

 1968; and (e) Resolutions 24l3 and 24l4 (XXIII) 



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