Qustions Concerning the Liquidation of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-Operation

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1952.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics

Dissolution Intellectual Cooperation Liquidation Property Training and Research Institutions

What does this mandate say?

23 operative paragraphs

Full-time members of the staff, with the exception of those specifically excluded by resolution of the General Assembly, shall be entitled to a children's allowance of $US 200 per annum in respect of each child under the age of eighteen years, or, if the child is in full-time attendance at a school or a university (or similar educational institution), or is totally disabled under the age of twenty-one years; provided that, if both parents are members of the staff of the United Nations, only one allowance will be paid in respect of each of their children; and provided further that, where the Secretary-General deems it advisable, no allowance or an allowance of an amount other than $US 200 may be paid under special circumstances, as for uample, short-term assignments or assignments at duty stations where the levels of United Nations salary scales are fixed at levels varying from the Headquarters scale.

Each full-time member of the staff, with the exception of those specifically excluded by resolution of the General Assem- .bly, entitled to receive a children's allowance under paragraph 1 above, who is employed by the United Nations in a country -other than his own country, as specified in: his letter of appointment, shall be entitled to the following education grant:

The sum of $US 200 per annum for each child, in re- .spect of whom a children's allowance is payable, in full-time attendance at a school or a university in his home country; provided that where a child attended such an educational institution for a period of less than two-thirds of any .one scholastic year, the grant shall be reduced to sui;h proportion of $US 200 as the period so attended bears to a full scholastic year;

Once in each scholastic year the travelling expenses of the outward and return journey of such a child by a route approved by the Secretary-General ;

Should staff members elect to send their children to special national schools in the area where they are serving, in- -eluding international schools orga_nized for children of United Nations staff members, rather than to schools in their home countries, the United Nations will pay for each child otherwise eligible for the education grant, a grant equal to the difference between the cost of education at the special school which he attends, and the cost at a comparable school attended by chil- -dren of persons normally resident in the area, provided that

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the rrant shall not aceed $200 per year. This grant shall l>e payable only trhen there is a valid reason for the child not to attend school in the home country; for instance, in the case of children under thirteen years of age or when the health of the child is such that return to the home country is not feasible ;

If both parents are members of the staff of United Nations only one grant will be paid in respect of each of their children.

The Secretary-General. may decide in each case whether allowances or grants under paragraphs 1 and 2 above shall extend to adopted children or step-children.

In principle, the repatriation grant shall be payable to staff members whom the Organization is obligated to repatriate, except those terminated by summary dismissal. Detailed conditions and definitions relating to eligibility shall be determined by tlie Secretary-General. The amount of the grant shall vary with the lehgth of service with the United Nations (exclusive of periods when an expatriation allowance was received). The mwmwn rates payable shall be as follows :

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After 2 years 4 8

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The tnaximum grant payable under this plan shall be $US Z;,W net for a staff member without dependants and $US 5;000 net for a staff member with dependants.

591 f\rl). Queations concerning the llquidatloa of the lntemational Inatitute of Intellectual Co-operation

Deems it necessary that the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation should be finally liquidated ;

Decides for this purpose that all the property of the Institute which was covered by a decision of transfer to the United Nations in conformity with the resolution of the Assembly of the League of Nations of 17 April 1946, shall be included among the assets in the liquidation of the Institute;

Recommends the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to accept responsibility for liquidating the property of fhe Institute;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to transfer full and absolute ownership of all the assets of the Institute to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, on condition that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization carries out the liquidation as aforesaid;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in his next annual report to the General Assembly full particulars concerning the measures of liquidation taken.

4 February 1952.

592 (VI). Autho,-ization of expenditure11 for the financial year 1952

Resolves that, in accordance with paragraph 3 of its resolution 583 (VI) adopted on 21 December 1951, expenditures totalling $US 5,524,970 for the financial year 1952 are hereby authorized in the amounts shbwn for the following sections :

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Authorizes the Secretary-General:

( i) To finance the expenditures authorized by paragraph 1 above up to $5,500,000 by transfer from section 33 ( Investigations, inquiries and other activities) of the 1952 budget and for the balance,· amounting to $24,970, by transfer of credits from other sections of the 1952 budget ;

To transfer credits from section 34 (Cost-ofliving adjustment at Headquarters) to the various sections concerned of the 1952 budget.

373,-d/lenary meeting,

February 1952.

593 (VI). Control and limitation of documentation

Invites the governments of Member States:

To assist in reducing the number and individual bulk of documents to a minimum by:

Bearing in mind the desirability of ensuring that all draft resolutions which may call for studies and reports and for their dissemination clearly indicate the scope of such studies and reports ;

Restricting both the number and the volume of the documents submitted for processing to what is strictly required by resolutions and other statutory decisions of a United Nations organ, or is clearly relevant to agenda items under discussion ;

( b) To assist in reducing the number of copies of such documents as are issued by:

Reviewing and reducing as far as possible their requests for documents issued in first distribution, and submitting to the Secretary-General their revised lists;

Avoiding as far as possible conference room requests for additional copie!;;

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593 (VI). Control and limitation of documentation

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