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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its eleventh General Conference in Paris from November 14 to December 15, 1960, under the presidency of Mr. Akale-Work Abte-Wold (Ethiopia). Ninety-eight member states of UNESCO participated in the Conference compared with the 75 that were members in 1958 at the time of the tenth General Conference. The General Conference approved the program of activities for 1961–1962 and unanimously voted a budget of $32,513,228 to finance it; to this amount was added over $12 million provided by the United Nations Technical Assistance Fund to enable UNESCO to carry out many additional educational and scientific projects. UNESCO was also to act as executing agency for seventeen projects concerning higher technical education, for which the UN Special Fund was to provide more than $11 million in 1961–1962. Also allocated by the Conference was $915,000 for the construction of an additional building in Paris, the total cost of which was to be $3,535,000.
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- International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
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1 UNESCO Chronicle, 02 1961 (Vol. 7, No. 2), p. 37–41.Google Scholar For a summary of the tenth General Conference, see International Organization, Spring 1959 (Vol. 13, No. 2), p. 321–324Google Scholar.
2 By the beginning of 1961, UNESCO numbered 100 members.
3 Document 59 EX/Decisions, June 30, 1961; see also UNESCO Chronicle, 08–09 1961 (Vol. 7, No. 8–9), p. 292–295.Google Scholar For a summary of the 57th and 58th sessions, see International Organization, Spring 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 2), p. 306–308Google Scholar.
4 Document 59 EX/3.
5 Document 59 EX/4, Adds.1 and 2; for a summary of the conference, see below, p. 235–236.
6 Document 59 EX/5 Rev.
7 Document 59 EX/6.
8 Document 59 EX/7.
9 Document 59 EX/9.
10 Document 59 EX/13.
11 Document 59 EX/16 and 59 EX/16 Annex.
12 Documents 59 EX/17 and Adds.1 and II, 59 EX/18, and 59 EX/19 and Adds.I and II, respectively.
13 Documents 59 EX/23–59 EX/27.
14 UNESCO Chronicle, 03 1961 (Vol. 7, No. 3), p. 99Google Scholar.
15 Ibid., April 1961 (Vol. 7, No. 4), p. 144.
16 Ibid., May 1961 (Vol. 7, No. 5), p. 174–180.
17 Ibid., p. 190–191.
18 Ibid., p. 191.
19 Ibid., May 1961 (Vol. 7, No. 5), p. 169–173, and July 1961 (Vol. 7, No. 7), p. 251–253.
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