The Bureau resolved that, pending the creation of the 

 above intergovernmental IOC/¥MO group on which the final deci- 

 sion should be reached at the time of the Sixth IOC Session, 

 operational and planning problems related to ocean-atmosphere 

 interaction studies, if any, will be dealt with by the Working 

 Committee for IGOSS which should meet for this purpose 

 together with the ¥MO/EC Panel on Meteorological Aspects of 

 Ocean Affairs. 



7. Regional Marine Science Activities - Africa 



With the conclusion of discussion on Agenda Item 6, the 

 Chairman suggested that the meeting move on to Item 8. 

 Ambassador McKernan inquired about Item 7^ and the Chairman 

 informed him that because of its low priority he was 

 rescheduling it as the meeting's last item of business. 

 Ambassador McKernan said that the United States placed 

 importance on this subject, and that the U. S. felt that 

 the IOC should be giving greater attention to the developing 

 nations in its over-all program. Professor Muromtsev (USSR) 

 said that the USSR agreed with the Uo S. point of view. 

 (Item 7, however, was never considered during the 9th Meeting 

 of the Bureau and Consultative Council.) 



8. Consideration of Co-operative Programs and of the Work 

 of Subsidiary Bodies of the Commission. 



The Chairman invited reports on cooperative programs, both 

 planned and in progress. As International Coordinator for 

 CIGAR, he said he was planning to suggest that the second 

 meeting of the CICAR Coordination Group be scheduled for 

 May 1969 (this suggestion was subsequently considered under 

 Agenda Item 9). Dr. Giermann, Assistant Secretary of the IOC, 

 reported that the Group for Technical Coordination of the 

 Cooperative Investigations of the Mediterranean had met twice 

 since the Fifth IOC Session and that the Group for Scientific 

 Coordination would meet in April 1969. At this point. Pro- 

 fessor Wooster observed that SCOR was expected to advise the 

 Scientific Coordination Group, but that it had not yet been 

 invited to any meetings on the subject. 



The representative of ACMRR drew the attention of the Bureau 

 and Consultative Council to the ACMRR/ICES/ECECA proposal for 

 an International Cooperative Study of the Northern Part of 

 the Eastern Central Atlantic (Gibraltar to Dakar) . Specific 

 gaps in knowledge of both the resources and the environment 

 of that area had been identified during the ICES Symposium 



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