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Page 588 Saar and Austria. It was therefore agreed that the Committoo of Ministers should inform the Standing Committee of the Assembly, when it met on 7th Novembor, that while the Committee of Ministers were in principle in favour of the early admission as Associate Members of Germany and the Saar, they would take no final decision in the matter until they had heard the views of the Standing Committee.

It was unanimously agreed that the question of

Austria should not be raised.

(ii)

Control of the Assembly's Agenda by Committee of Ministers

The Committee of Ministers were concerned to grant to the Assembly the substance of their demand without amending the Statute. They therefore decided that pending a general revision of the Statute they would not exercise in practice their right of control over the Assembly's Agenda so long as the Assembly's debatos were limited to "such subjects as foll within the scope of the Council of Europe as defined in Article 1 of the Statute"

(iii)

Abolition of Substitutes and increase in numbers of the Assembly.

The Committee of Ministers agreed that the system of substitutes had proved unsatisfactory and instructed their Deputies to submit a report on the best mothod of increasing the number of members of the Consultative Assembly.

(iv) New Post of Deputy Secretary-General

The appointment of a Chief of Administrative Services of the Assembly with the rank of Deputy Secretary- General was authorised.

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Recommendations of the Assembly in the Economic, Human Rights, Social and Cultural Fields.

(1)

Economic

The Committee adopted, with only one minor alteration, a resolution which I proposed. This referred the Assembly's economic recommendations to the O.E.E.C.

Although the resolution adopted was a United Kingdom draft, it merely expressed the general feeling of the Committee, who felt almost unanimously that the O.E.E.C. must not be in any way subordinated to the Strasbourg Assembly and that the Council of Europe must not build up international machinery in duplication of existing organisations.

The views of the O.E.E.C. will be transmitted in due course to the Committee of Ministers for their consideration.

Human Rights

(ii)

The Secretary-General was instructed to invite each of the Governments of the Member States to nominate an expert to a committee which would draw up a draft convention to serve as a basis for future discussion. The draft should take due account Page588 of 1097s already made by theage588h497ns.

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