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International Organization Information / Research: 1959 (Part #5)

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Draft Convention to facilitate the work of NGOs: In conformity with a wish expressed at the September Conference, the Secretariat is following up the project of an international convention to help NGO operations. The first stage consists in consultation of Corresponding Organizations on a wide scale on the basis of a draft drawn up by the UIA Secretary-General. The second stage will be the consideration of the project by the UIA Executive Council. The third stage will be the submission of the final version of the draft to all NGOs with a view to obtaining their moral support. The fourth and last stage will be the submission of the draft to Unesco, so that on approval by the Executive Board and by Member States, it may become one of the International Conventions established by Unesco to "facilitate...."

Consultative meetings with Corresponding Organizations have already been held in Brussels on 30 October and 12 November, in Paris on 5 November, and in New York on 18 December; others are being held in Geneva and London during April.