United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization held its thirty-second session in Paris on December 11 and 12, 1952. The Board agreed on the membership of its permanent commissions on program, finance and external relations and amended its rules of procedure to enlarge its membership from eighteen to 20 members and to raise the number of members necessary to constitute a quorum from ten to eleven. Additional proposed amendments were referred by the Board to its Bureau and Finance Commission for study and report at the next session. After agreeing on the list of member states to be invited to participate in the seminar on audio-visual aids in fundamental education, scheduled to be held in Sicily in September and October 1953, the Board decided that the joint meeting between the Organization of American States and UNESCO to examine the practical application of the terms of the agreement between the two organizations' should be held in Washington from February 4 to 7, 1953. A list of proposed subventions for 1953 and certain proposed transfers within the budget for 1952 were approved, and the Director-General was authorized to advance from the Working Capital Fund not more than $100,000 for implementation of the recommendations of the Headquarters Committee with respect to financing the preparation of plans for the headquarters building.