bly requesting the Council It remains, however, the etting up as well as on the , in our opinion, that the o the Council" rather than
as follows:
pt and favourable considera- ial and Co-ordination Com- hat the composition of these
ion."
light merely consist in the mmittees for such a period sent wording of rule 26 of committees. . ."), a more procedure a new provision Il members of the Council of the Council which may
9 December 1963
THE COMMITTEE FOR
F PERU AND POLAND
ocial Council
rship of working groups and its subsidiary organs of the Council or the res- ng groups established to practice, the membership f their membership in the
t circumstances they con- until the committee itself ced by two new members. of the committee desired I that it would probably
out without equivalent
on it seems to us that it ership of Peru and Poland
it.
17 January 1963
-QUESTION OF INVITING
ID
nd Social Affairs
y that it is clear that the "State" for the purpose
of an invitation to the Conference under paragraph 4 (a) of General Assembly resolution 1785 (XVII). While it is true that the Federation is a member of ITU, this in itself is not decisive of its status as a "State" since under the ITU Convention "groups of territories" can be and are full members. Our practice in regard to other conferences for which invitations are extended under the same formula as that in resolution 1785 (XVII) has been in accord with this position, namely that the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is not to be considered as a State. The fact that the Federation has been invited to commodity meetings and is a party to GATT is attributable, as you know, to the initial invitation extended to its predeces- sor, Southern Rhodesia, for participation in the Havana Conference of 1947. This cir- cumstance or the subsequent history would not change the conclusion that the Federation is not to be regarded as a State.
9.
21 February 1963
PARTICIPATION IN THE 1964 LATIN AMERICAN SEMİNAR OF EXPERTS ON FOREIGN TRADE- INTERPRETATION OF ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA RESOLUTION 221 (X) OF 16 MAY 1963
Memorandum to the Secretary of the Economic and Social Council
1. With reference to your memorandum of 10 October, we are of the opinion that there would be no legal barrier to a decision by the Secretariat of CLA to conduct the seminar in "closed" meetings which would be restricted to the participants and would exclude observers from Governments of the non-Latin American countries. A restriction of this kind which is based on the geographical factor and not on a political ground would not be contrary to United Nations principles or practice. There are several precedents for the regional commis- sions holding meetings of governments or experts which are limited to participants from the countries of the region rather than the full membership of the commission in question.
2. Moreover, in the case at issue a decision by the Secretariat to limit the meeting to designated specialists" from the region would not be inconsistent with the purpose and language of the ECLA resolution. The resolution as such does not require such restriction since it only calls for the "co-operation of specialists appointed by the Governments of all the Latin American countries"; consequently, a decision to proceed on a "losed" basis would clearly be the responsibility of the Secretariat. Such a decision may, however, be justified on the basis of the indication in the resolution that the Secretariat studies (and by implication the seminar) should have the objective of assisting the Latin American countries to adopt a concerted position at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and on the assumption that the Latin American Governments and their specialists can best attain the objective through meetings which are not open to non-participants.
18 October 1963
10. PARTICIPATION OF FOUNDATIONS IN SOME OF THE ECAFE SEMINARS
Memorandum to the Secretary of the Economic and Social Council
1. This is in reference to the request for advice on whether participation of foundations (such as the Ford Foundation and Asia Foundation) in ECAFE seminars is permissible within the rules of procedure of the Commission or within the practices established for the United Nations as a whole.
2. In our opinion, non-governmental organizations which do not enjoy consultative status with the Economic and Social Council are not entitled to participate in ECAFE seminars or to be given the legal status of observers under existing rules and practices. As
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