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FOREIGN
OFFICE, S.W.I.
5th November, 1946
7:7
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Dear McPetrie,
The instruments on which the diplomatic privileges and immunities of UNRRA and its
representatives depend are, I think, the following: (a) Resolutions 32 to 36 of the Council of UNRRA at its first session in November, 1943 (Published as Miscellaneous No.6 (1943): Cmd.6497). These Resolutions of the Council are in fact recommendations to member governments of UNRRA and are, therefore, not legally binding, but the United Kingdom as a party to the Resolutions is under some moral obligation to give effect to them; (b) the privileges and immunities of UNRRA and its representatives in this country are given by the Diplomatic Privileges (UNRRA) Order in Council, 1945 (S.R & O. 1945, No. 79) made under the Diplomatic Privileges (Extension) Act, 1944, Section I; x (c) Resolution M of the United Nations Assembly on
13th February, 1946 (Published as Miscellaneous No.6 (1946):Cmd.6753) lays down the general principle for according privileges and immunities to specialised agencies; while UNRRA is not a specialised agency proper, these principles should be applied.
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It appears then that the only instruments which could affect the Government of a Colony are the Resolutions 32 to 36, and since they do not import legal obligation upon the United Kingdom they can do so in respect of the Government of a Colony; I think, therefore, that the Government of a Colony is not bound to give effect to these Resolutions, as His Majesty's Government has done by Order in Council in the United Kingdom, but if the Government of a Colony does give effect to them it should be
by Resolution III
of/
J. McPetrie, Esq.,
Colonial Office,
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