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the United Kingdom Delegation, on the ground that the Deputy Director- General was often required to act as Director-General in the latter's absence and that it was therefore not unreasonable to grant him the same privileged status. The Conference approved the standard clauses of the Convention, with this amendment. The Secretary-General of the United Nations will be so informed and all Member States will be invited to accede to it, and as far as possible to honour its clauses pending formal accession.

117. The Conference also approved arrangements to enable members of UNESCO's Secretariat to use the laissez-passer of the United Nations. With this work may be associated a special resolution of the Commission passed subsequently asking Member States to facilitate journeys to UNESCO's head- quarters of the wives and families of members newly appointed to the Secretariat.

118. Budgetary and General Co-ordination of the work of UNESCO with that of the United Nations and its Specialised Agencies. The rate at which the United Nations activities and international co-operation generally have been increasing in recent years inevitably gives rise to the need of avoiding overlapping, of adopting broadly similar methods respecting budgetary and administrative questions and above all of concerting the whole force of the United Nations for the achievement of general approved common purpose. 119. Many of the questions which fall to be decided under this head are new and much patient work has to be devoted to their solution. Both the methods and machinery need constant review and adjustment in the inter- national context in which the various United Nations organisations operate and it was in order to emphasise the importance of concentrating upon this task that the General Conference passed the resolution dealing with budgetary and general co-ordination.

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120. Relations with Inter-Governmental International Organisations.- There is only one such organisation with which UNESCO has formal relationships; the International Bureau of Education. It was perhaps natural to assume that the Bureau would immediately be absorbed into the newly formed UNESCO after 1946, but in all succeeding General Conferences Member States have agreed that as long as the Bureau can maintain its present useful work and continue to finance itself by the special advantages it now enjoys, then no useful purpose would be served by its amalgamation with UNESCO. The General Conference saw no reason to depart from this policy and the renewal of UNESCO's present agreement by which it makes an annual grant-in-aid to the Bureau was therefore approved.

121. We should point out that although only one formal agreement has been concluded with an intergovernmental organisation, close and cordial liaison is maintained informally with several others, such as the International Hydrographic Bureau and the International Institute of the Hylean Amazon. Moreover, special agreements have been concluded with several of the Specialised Agencies of the United Nations.

122. Relations with International Non-Governmental Organisations.-As part of its policy of encouraging the widest possible contribution to the aims and purposes set out in its Constitution, UNESCO has consistently looked towards existing non-governmental international associations and learned organisations for support. It has also regarded aid given to such bodies as one of the most effective methods of expressing those aims in practical ways. Consequently a considerable part of its budget has been devoted to grants-in-aid and other payments to well established international organisations in the fields of education, science and cultura.