(xvl) The Chairman was requested to transmit the 

 above recommendation to all concerned. The 

 Secretary was instructed to include appropri- 

 ate agenda items for the consideration of 

 these matters by the Sixth Session. 



(xvii) It was decided that a Working Group of Gov- 

 ernmental Experts from Member States of the 

 Bureau and Consultative Council wishing to 

 participate would be convened in April I969 

 to consider whether the above matters may 

 require amendment of the IOC Statutes and the 

 Rules of Procedure and to draft texts where 

 necessary for the consideration of the Sixth 

 Session. 



6. Information on the IGOSS Development and Policy Questions 

 Involved 



Dr. Fedorov introduced this item, called attention to back- 

 ground documents IOC/B-51. AVS/9/89R, and AVS/9/89E-ODS (JP), 

 and he pointed out that in view of the extremely rapid 

 development of the IGOSS program the IOC Secretariat had 

 had to make a niimber of policy decisions concerning IGOSS, 

 being guided by the pertinent resolutions of the Fifth IOC 

 Session and by the recommendations of the IGOSS Working 

 Committee. He said policy guidance was desired from the 

 Bureau on a n-umber of points, in particular, confirmation of 

 the position taken by the Secretariat as regards the estab- 

 lishment of an advisory mechanism in the 



field of ocean-atmosphere interaction studies, whereby the 

 joint lAMAP/lAPSO/SCOR group would provide the necessary 

 advice to IOC through SCOR. He pointed out that such con- 

 firmation by the Bureau would necessarily imply modifying 

 IOC Resolution V-20C and some of the recommendations of the 

 previous meeting of the IOC Bureau. 



The representative of the WMO stated that he would prefer 

 to have further discussion postponed until the results of 

 the Princeton meeting of the lAMAP/lAPSO/SCOR group of 

 experts were known and until the WMO paper on ocean- 

 atmosphere interaction problems was distributed to the 

 Bureau and Consultative Council (see Annex V) . Professor 

 Muromtsev (USSR) expressed the strong concern of his dele- 

 gation over the creation of new IGOSS subsidiary bodies. 

 He expressed the belief that IGOSS would soon become one of 

 the major programs of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic 

 Commission. He informed the meeting of the plans developed 



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