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Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
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The sixteen-member Council of the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO), the newest of the twelve specialized agencies of the UN, held its first session in London after its membership had been completed by the Assembly. A second session of the Council was held in London during July 1959, at which the work program, administrative arrangements, and the relationship of the Organization with the other UN agencies were discussed. Among the new proposals made to the Council was one that IMCO should consider the problem of simplifying the voluminous documentation required by international shipping when entering or leaving port. Another aspect of the Council's second session was a debate on technical cooperation with underdeveloped countries, but a full report on IMCO's participation in UN technical assistance programs was not to be considered until the next Council session, scheduled for March 1960.
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- International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
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- Copyright © The IO Foundation 1960
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1 UN Press Release IMCO/57, December 31, 1959. For a summary of the first session of the Assembly, see International Organization, Summer 1959 (Vol. 13, No. 3), p. 464–465Google Scholar.
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