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11. The Commission unanimously approved the Report of the Secretariat (document NS/IOC/1-8) 

 presented by Dr. Wooster, Director of the Office of Oceanography of Unesco and Secretary of the 



Commission. 



12. At the end of the first plenary meeting the representative of the USSR made a declaration 

 stressing that the success of international co-operation in oceanography depended upon the parti- 

 cipation in the work of the Commission of all States active in oceanographic research. In this 

 connexion, the USSR delegation expressed regret at the absence from the Commission of the law- 

 ful delegates of the People's Republic of China, and denied the right of the representative of 

 Taiwan to represent China with its 650, 000, 000 people, at the meeting. This statement was com- 

 mented upon by the representative of China who pointed out that his right to represent China was 

 based upon the decision of the General Conference of Unesco. 



13. The Commission, after preliminary discussion in plenary session of certain items of its 

 Agenda, appointed three working groups to examine related problems in detail and to prepare draft 

 resolutions to be submitted to the Commission for approval. These drafts were examined and re- 

 vised by the Steering Committee before presentation to the plenary meeting. 



The working groups were constituted as follows: 



Working Group No . I : For Item 4 of the Agenda - Relationship between the IOC and other 

 organizations . 



1. India (Chairman, Dr. Panikkar) 



2. Australia 



3. USSR 



4. U.S.A. 



5. Brazil 



6 . Norway 



7 . United Kingdom 



8. Germany 



9 . Canada 



with observers from FAO, WMO, IAEA, ICES, ICSU, SCOR and 

 other organizations present at the meeting. 



Working Group No. II: For Item 5 of the Agenda - Co-operative International Programmes 

 of Oceanographic Investigations. 



All interested members were invited to work in this group under the 

 chairmanship of the representative of the USSR, Commodore K.P. 

 Ryzhkov . 



WorkingGroupNo. Ill : For Items 5 and 6 of the Agenda - Co-ordination of National 



Programmes and Technical Questions including Exchange of Data. 



All interested members were invited to work in this group under the 

 the chairmanship of the representative of the United States of America, 

 Dr. Roger Revelle. This group was further split into four ad hoc 

 working parties concerned with different technical questions. 



III. CONSIDERATION OF THE MAJOR ITEMS OF THE AGENDA 



Item 4: Relations between the IOC and other organizations 



Discussions concentrated mainly upon the relationship between IOC and FAO and SCOR. 

 Some members suggested that a new Consultative Committee on the Fisheries Aspects 

 of Oceanography should be established by the IOC. At the same time, the Commission 

 was informed of the proposed creation by FAO of its own Advisory Committee on 



