Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
In 1955 the General Assembly of the United Nations will have to consider the revision of the Charter, and there are reasons for believing that a number of governments are already giving thought to this question.
1 Under Article 109 (3). A proposal to call a conferenoe to amend the Charter must be placed on the Agenda of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Assembly. The convening of such a conference can be decided by a simple majority of the Assembly and any seven members of the Security Council.
2 E.g., WHO, IRO, IMCO.
3 General Assembly Official Records (7th session), Supplement No. 3, p. x.
4 This sub-commission on “discrimination and the protection of minorities” was subsequently revived on the request of the Assembly, and the annual meetings of the Commission on the Status of Women were reinstituted.
5 Politique Étrangère, December 1951.
6 Including the embryo IMCO
7 Article 68.
8 Article II. Agreement between the United Nations and UNESCO.
9 Article 69 of the Constitution of WHO.