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Item 5(f) 



Paris, 26 October 1961 

 Translated from the Spanish 



UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, 

 SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION 



INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION 



First Session 



Paris, UNESCO, 19-27 October 1961 



JOINT DECLARATION SUBMITTED BY THE DELEGATIONS OF ARGENTINA, 

 BRAZIL, CUBA, ECUADOR, MEXICO, URUGUAY, AND THE DOMINICAN 

 REPUBLIC TO THE PLENARY MEETING OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL 

 OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION AT ITS FIRST SESSION 



The delegations of Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, 

 Uruguay, and the Dominican Republic, present at the First Session 

 of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, 



AliVARE of the substantial progress achieved by oceanography 

 in highly industrialized countries and of the fact that nations 

 in process of development, despite their efforts to intensify 

 their activities in this field, are increasingly failing to 

 keep abreast of this progress because of inadequate trained 

 scientific personnel and economic resources; 



NOTING that a thorough knowledge of the oceans can be 

 obtained only through more intensive and effective international 

 cooperation, which makes it urgent to provide a larger number 

 of oceanographic research centres furnished with equipment 

 and specialized technical staff; 



OBSERVING that the funds so far assigned by UNESCO to 

 oceanographic research in countries in process of development 

 have proved insufficient for the purpose; and 



BEARING IN MIND that the Latin American countries have 

 not yet been able to contribute effectively, and as much as 

 they would like to do, to the advancement of world oceanography 

 owing to the above-mentioned lack of resources; 



