Council

The 23d meeting of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) opened in Montreal on September 28, 1954. Questions of air navigation occupied the most prominent place on the Council's agenda, which approved and communicated to ICAO members the proposals of the Air Navigation Commission for action on the recommendations of the Special Middle East Communications Meeting and of the fourth session of the Meteorological Division. Amendments were made to the regional supplementary procedures, to the Caribbean-South American-South Atlantic aeromobile frequency plan and to the rules of the air and air traffic control plan for the South American-South Atlantic region. In addition, the Council elected the membership of the Finance Committee and Committee on Joint Support of Air Navigation Services for the subsequent twelve months, gave preliminary consideration to the action to be taken on the resolution of the eighth session of the ICAO Assembly concerning the number and length of sessions and working methods of the Council, Air Navigation Commission and Air Transport Committee, decided to convene the fourth session of the Facilitation Division in the Philippines in the autumn of 1955, decided to convene a meeting of medical experts on hearing and visual requirements at Paris in April 1955 and decided, in principle, that ICAO should proceed to construct, in conjunction with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and on land leased to UNESCO by the French government, accommodations to meet the space requirements of its Paris office.