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Membership for both diminutive states and non-self-governing territories but the observer from Monaco, having declared that Associate Membership would bganacceptable to his Government aRaghebifficulties of accommo- dating Associate Membership within the Constitution and procedure of UNESCO having been revealed during the discussions, together with the United Kingdom's objections to comparing territories like Nigeria with diminutive states; the United States Delegation withdrew its motion.
112. The Commission resolved that each application should be treated on its merits, a view which was accepted by the Conference, and it voted to admit Monaco as a full member of the Organisation.
113. The work of National Commissions and Co-operating Bodies.-Speci- ally characteristic of the activity of UNESCO is the requirement in its Consti- tution that all Member States should form National Commissions or National Co-operating Bodies composed of or representing the leading influences in their educational, scientific and cultural life. These Commissions and Bodies are devised to ensure that the purposes and aims of UNESCO are under- stood and supported by great numbers of people outside the merely official circles in each country.
114. The United States Government is outstanding for the leadership and energy it has shown in this aspect of UNESCO's work. The United Kingdom also, having been one of the first Member States to create a series of National Co-operating Bodies and a United Kingdom Committee, which collectively represent its National Commission, has always emphasised the necessity for strengthening this new and important form of international machinery dedicated to international purposes. Not all Member States have established National Commissions but the number who have done so is now 32 and new commissions are being set up in several others. To assist and strengthen this movement a special two-day meeting on the work of National Commis- sions was held in Beirut before the Third Session opened and the resolu tions approved by the Conference, are based upon the findings and recommendations of those meetings.
115. The United Kingdom Delegation was glad to have had these oppor tunities of contributing from its own experience towards the shaping of a movement by which, it is convinced, UNESCO's cause can powerfully be sustained. The Leader of the United Kingdom Delegation and its other members missed no opportunity both of insisting upon the duty of every Member State to devise every possible aid for UNESCO's programme by its own methods, and of expressing their conviction that it would be inviting defeat and failure to suppose that Member States and the rest of the world might be content to regard all executive action as the responsibility of the Secretariat at Unesco House in Paris. Not until vigorous National Com- missions flourish in every Member State will it be possible to regard this policy of the United Kingdom Delegation as the platitude it really ought
to be.
116. Privileges and Immunities of the Specialised Agencies.-The United Kingdom and other Delegations have always pressed for a uniform policy on this question which has consequently been referred to the General Assembly of the United Nations by whom a draft model Convention for the award of privileges and immunities to all Specialised Agencies has been prepared. The Official and External Relations Commission decided to accept the standard clauses proposed by the United Nations subject only to an addi- tion of the award of privileges to the Deputy Director-General similar to those enjoyed by the Director-General. This addition had been proposed by the Executive Board and it was supported, in the face of some opposition, by