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November 04, 1968
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
MULTILATERAL
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO)
Adopted by the UNESCO General Conference at its fifteenth session, at Paris 4 November 1968; Entered into force 4 November 1968.
Composition of the Executive Board, Duration of Term of Office of Members and Method of Election
The General Conference,
Recalling resolution 7 adopted at its fourteenth session (1966), which states, inter alia, that the problem of the composition of the Executive Board should be reviewed by the Board so as to ensure an equitable, balanced representation of the various cultures and geographical regions, bearing in mind that members elected to the Board should also be persons with experience and competence in the fields proper to Unesco, in accordance with the spirit and letter of Article V.A.2 of the Constitution;[1] l bearing in mind, further, that half the number of Member States have never been elected to membership of the Executive Board,
Having studied the report submitted by the Executive Board in compliance with the above-mentioned resolution, containing its recommendations on the composition of the Executive Board,
Noting with satisfaction that the number of Member States of Unesco has increased over the past few years,
Appreciating the need for taking the various measures specified in the present decision, which taken together constitute an appropriate means for achieving the objective of the above-mentioned resolution,
1. Decides:
(a) to increase the number, of members of the Executive Board to thirty-four;
{b) to change the length of the term of office of members of the Executive Board, who shall be elected for a term of six years, and shall not be immediately eligible for a second term, it being understood that this decision shall not affect the length of the term of office or the re-eligibility of the present members of the Executive Board under the provisions of the Constitution in force prior to the adoption of the present resolution;
(c) to establish for the fifteenth session, on a provisional and experimental basis, a system of electoral groups of Member States, which shall govern only elections to the Executive Board, and to examine the results of the new system in the light of the experience gained at that session; the allocation of seats and the composition of groups shall be as follows:
GROUPINGS OF MEMBER STATES FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTIONS TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
| Group I (27). 9 seats | ||
| Australia | Greece | Norway |
| Austria | Iceland | Portugal |
| Belgium | Ireland | Spain |
| Canada | Israel | Sweden |
| Cyprus | Italy | Switzerland |
| Denmark | Luxembourg | Turkey |
| Finland | Malta | United Kingdom of Great |
| France | Monaco | Britain and Northern |
| Federal Republic of Netherlands Ireland Germany | New Zealand | United States of America |
| Group II (10). 3 seats - | ||
| Albania | Hungary | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| Bulgaria | Poland | |
| Byelorussian Soviet | Romania | Yugoslavia |
| Socialist Republic | Ukrainian Soviet | |
| Socialist Republic | ||
| Czechoslovakia | ||
| Group III (24). 6 seats | ||
| Argentina | Dominican Republic | Mexico |
| Barbados | Ecuador | Nicaragua |
| Bolivia | El Salvador | Panama |
| Brazil | Guatemala | Paraguay |
| Chile | Guyana | Peru |
| Colombia | Haiti | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Costa Rica | Honduras | Uruguay |
| Cuba | Jamaica | Venezuela |
| Group IV (19). 5 seats | ||
| Afghanistan | Iran | Pakistan |
| Burma | Japan | Philippines |
| Cambodia | Republic of Korea | Singapore |
| Ceylon | Laos | Thailand |
| China | Malaysia | Republic of Viet-Nam |
| India | Mongolia | |
| Indonesia | Nepal | |
| Group V (45). 11 seats | ||
| Algeria | Kenya | Senegal |
| Burundi | Kuwait | Sierra Leone |
| Cameroon | Lebanon | Somalia |
| Central African Republic | Lesotho | Southern Yemen |
| Chad | Liberia | Sudan |
| Congo (Brazzaville) | Libya | Syria |
| Congo {Democratic | Madagascar | Tanzania |
| Republic of) | Malawi | Togo |
| Dahomey | Mali | Tunisia |
| Ethiopia | Mauritania | Uganda |
| Gabon | Mauritius | United Arab Republic |
| Ghana | Morocco | Upper Volta |
| Guinea | Niger | Yemen |
| Iraq | Nigeria | Zambia |
| Ivory Coast | Rwanda | |
| Jordan | Saudi Arabia |
2. Decides to amend Article V of the Constitution as follows:
(a) in paragraph 1, the word 'thirty' shall be replaced by the words 'thirty-four';
(b) paragraph 3 shall be replaced by the following text:
'3. Members of the Board shall serve from the close of the session of the General Conference which elected them until the close of the third ordinary session of the General Conference following that election. They shall not be immediately eligible for a second term. The General Conference shall, at each of its ordinary sessions, elect the number of members required to fill the vacancies occurring at the end of the session.'
(c) paragraph 13 shall be replaced by the following:
'C. Transitional provisions
13. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Article, members of the Executive Board elected at the thirteenth and fourteenth sessions of the General Conference for a first term and members appointed by the Board in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 4 of this Article to replace members with a four-year term shall be eligible for a second term of four years.
14. At the fifteenth session of the General Conference, nineteen members shall be elected to the Executive Board pursuant to the provisions of this Article. Thereafter, at each of its ordinary sessions, the General Conference shall elect the number of members required to fill the vacancies occurring at the end of the session
[1] 1 PTS 105
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