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of the oceans and their resources. The United Kingdom believes furthermore that 

 a strengthened and broadened IOC, acting in close liaison and partnership with 

 other intergovernmental agencies, is the proper and most effective instrument for 

 planning and implementing this expanded programme of international co-operation 

 in marine science. 



2. At the same time we believe it is essential to recognize that such a pro- 

 gramme will make heavy demands on skilled scientific manpower, finance and 

 facilities. This applies not only to the conduct of programmes of research at 

 sea but to their planning and co-ordination and to the efficient synthesis and 

 dissemination of their results. It is essential that at all these stages the 

 active participation must be encouraged of those scientists and others on whom 

 will fall the prime responsibility for the implementation of the prograjnraes . We 

 believe that progi*araming at the International level, no less than at the national, 

 must therefore be selective and critical. It must identify those projects which 

 are not only the most rewarding but are within the scope of the manpower and re- 

 sources likely to be available. We do not believe that the IOC should seek to 

 take vmdue responsibility in fields which are already within the remit of other 

 agencies. In short, we believe that the IOC, in its future role, must not only 

 plan wisely and economically, but must be seen to do so. In that way it will 

 continue to receive the confidence and support of scientists, governments and 

 agencies alike, without which success cannot be ichieved. 



3. The United Kingdom therefore welcomes the proposal of the Secretary- General 

 of the United hatlons set out in E/kkQJt that the IOC should be broadened so as 

 to enable it to formulate and co-ordinate an expanded international p7?ogramme of 

 Oceanographlc Research. We have noted that recommendations 8.1 and 8.2 of the 

 IOC Bureau and Consultative Council express satisfaction with this new role, and 

 that paragraphs 50-55 of "the resolution of the Unesco Executive Board (resolution 

 5.1 of the 78th session) take the same attitude. 



k. With these considerations In mind we first put forward our views, in Section 

 A. of this paper, on the future work of the IOC and of the kind of projects which 

 we in the United Kingdom would like to see the Commission undertake. We then 

 consider, in Section B, the administrative and organizational arrangements for 

 Implementing this expanded programme of work. 



SECTION A. FUTURE ACTIVITIES OF THE IOC 



5- These are reviewed in what follows under two heads: 



(i) Activities in which the IOC has the sole or the main responsibility. 



(ii) Activities in which the IOC should act in liaison or partnership with 

 other agencies. 



Several of the following proposals have already been put forward in the Report 

 of the Joint ACTCR/SCORA'MO Advisory Committee. This Report, entitled Interna- 

 tional Ocean Affairs, Is in the view of the United Kingdom a valuable document, 

 and we hope that the IOC will give it close attention in the course of its delib- 

 erations on its future role. 



