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129. Study of an International Union of Organisations working for Peace or Promoting International Understanding.-As a pendant to its work on relationships with international non-govermental organisations, the Official and External Relations Commission had before it a resolution from the Delegation for Austria looking towards some unification of effort on the part of many organisations at present seeking to promote peace. The original resolution emerged in an amended and expanded form from the Commission's discussions. The United Kingdom Delegation suggested some modifications, particularly the desirability of associating the project with the work of the Social Sciences programme of UNESCO, and the resolution was adopted by the General Conference in that form.

130. Institute of Cultural Co-operation for South and East Asian countries. Proposed by the Delegation of India, this project was strongly criticised by the Delegation of France on the grounds that it favoured a spirit of regional nationalism which UNESCO must at all costs oppose. The United Kingdom Delegation, however, supported the proposal subject to amendments linking the work of the suggested Institute with the National Commissions in the areas concerned and with the United Nations and other Specialised Agencies. The Indian Delegation accepted these amendments and it seemed therefore desirable to welcome the creation of a new regional force, which, as the Delegation of India pointed out, could and would be established by them in any event for the purposes for which UNESCO itself was created.

131. Liaison with Labour Organisations.-A resolution drawing attention to the desirability of enlisting the support of labour organisations for UNESCO's objectives was proposed by the United States Delegation and after debate was finally accepted by the Conference in a way not thought to define too strictly the exact form the proposed relationship should take.

6. THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF FIFTEEN

132. An experiment in co-ordination between the three main Commissions of the Conference was made at Beirut by the establishment of a joint com- mittee of five members from each of them known as the Committee of Fifteen. It was set up to deal with three main tasks in the field of UNESCO's public relations and information services.

133. The United Kingdom Delegation welcomed this opportunity the Com- mittee afforded of seeking a revision of the project for the World Centre for the Exchange of Information, which, in its opinion, threatened to duplicate the functions of the Programme Departments. The resolution passed by the Committee on this subject was strongly reinforced by the action of the Budget Sub-Commission, at the instance of the United Kingdom Delegate, whose resolution removed any financial authorisation for the posts considered by both Committees to be surplus in the department misleadingly called a World Centre.

134. The United Kingdom Delegation also took the lead in advocating before the Committee a critical examination of the entire publications pro- gramme of UNESCO, calling for a survey of the various classes of publica- tions, the methods used for their production, distribution and sale, bibliographical methods and publicity methods as well as for a complete

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revision of the present accounting methods, which, it appeared, allowed the Organisation no possibility of paying for the printing of additional copies of its publications required for sale.

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