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observers from the League of Nations' Economic, Financial, and Transit Department, the International Labour Office, the Inter-governmental Committee for Refugees, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the European Central Inland Transportation Organization; represented for the first time were the United Nations and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. In view of the contemplated assumption by the United Nations of functions previously exercised by the League's Economic and Financial Department, and of other changes consequent on the establishment of the United Nations, it was decided that Council Resolution No. 5, relating to observers, should be revised. The Committee on Observers, to whom this matter was referred, accordingly recommended that Resolution No. 5 should be modified as follows: (1) That the Council reaffirm the principle of co-operation between the Administration and other intergovernmental agencies as set forth in the report of the Temporary Committee on Admission of Observers adopted by the Council on 12 November, 1943. (2) That the Council invite representatives of those intergovernmental agencies which have a special position by virtue of the scope of their membership and function, or by virtue of being charged with duties closely related to those of the Administration, to attend as observers and to participate in the meetings of the Council, its Committees and subcommittees, and in the meetings of Regional Committees and Technical Standing Committees, in accordance with appropriate provisions in the Permanent Rules of Procedure. (3) That the Director-General, in pursuance of the principle set forth in paragraph (1) above, co-operate to such a degree and to such extent as he may deem desirable in the interests of the Administration with all intergovernmental agencies whose operations and specialized services may be of value to the Administration, including the sending of his representatives as observers to the meetings of other intergovernmental agencies. The Committee further recommended that the Director-General should be authorized without further action by the Council or the Central Committee to invite to the next regular session the following organizations:— United Nations. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. European Central Inland Transportation Organization. International Labour Office. World Federation of Trade Unions. These recommendations were accepted by the Council, subject to the additional provision that the Director-General should be entitled to receive applications from other non-governmental agencies and to recommend to the next meeting of the Council those which he wants to invite. New Zealand was represented on the Council at its Fourth Session by Sir Carl Berendsen, New Zealand Minister at Washington, with Mr. B. R. Turner, of the New Zealand Legation, as Alternate, and Miss B. A. Foster, also of the Legation staff, as secretary.

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