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6. Th© following Sptcialized Aggneies of the United Nationi ssnt 

 Obssrvars to thg Conforenea : 



Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) 

 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organiza= 

 tion (UNESCO) 



6. The following Non=Governmental Organizations sent Observers 

 to the Conference : 



Counseil International de la Chasse (CIC) 

 International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP) 

 International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural 



Eesources (lUCN) 

 International Wildfowl Eesearch Bureau (IWRB) 

 Special Committee for the International Biological Programme 



of the International Council of Scientific Unions (IBP) 

 World Wildlife Fund (WWF) 



7. The Conference elected Mr. E. Firouz, Head of the Imperial 

 Iranian Delegation, as President of the Conference. 



8. The Conference elected as Vice-Presidents, Dr. V. D. Denisov, 

 Head of the Delegation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 

 and Prof. Dr. M. F. Morzer Bruyns, Head of the Delegation of the 

 Kingdom of the Netherlands. 



9. The Iranian Game and Fish Department and the International 

 Wildfowl Research Bureau (IWRB) provided the Secretariat of the 

 Conference. Prof. G. V. T. Matthews, Director of IWRB, was ap- 

 pointed Rapporteur=General of the Conference. 



10. The following Committees were established by the Confer- 

 ence :— 



Oredmtiak Committee 

 Mr. S. A. Hejmadi (India) 

 Mr. A. Dakhgan (Jordan) 

 Dr. L. E. Esping (Sweden) (acting as Rapporteur) 

 Dr. A. Schifferli (Switzerland) 



Drafting Committee 

 Count Cornet d'Elziui (Belgium) 

 Dr. W. Erz (Federal Republic of Germany) 

 Dr. M. Nabavi (Iran) 

 Dr. E. J. Ph. Roberts (The Netherlands) 

 Prof. Yu.Isakov (USSR) 

 Rapporteurs. Sir Hugh Elliott (IBP) ; Mr. F. G. Nicholls flUCN) 



11. The Conference was deeply impressed by the decision included 

 in the Message sent to it by H. I. M. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 

 Aryamehr, Shahanshah of Iran, that the Imperial Iranian Govern- 

 ment would place^one of its wetland ecosystems of special global sig- 

 nificance in joint trust with a suitable international agency, such as 

 the United Nations Organization, to conserve and administer for all 

 mankind. The Conference commended this most important precedent 

 to other Governments. 



12. The Government of Iran in convening the Conference referred 

 to it the draft of a Convention on Wetlands of International Im- 

 portance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat, which had resulted from 

 an international meeting of experts held at Espoo, Finland, in March 



