Resolution
8/73
INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF
COUNCIL
SEATS
THE CONFERENCE
,
Recalling
its Resolution 20/71 whereby it requested the
Council
to examine, in consultation with the
Programme Committee
, the
Finance Committee
and the
Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters
, the advisability of increasing the number of Council seats and to submit to the
Conference
a report and recommendations and, if appropriate, a suitable draft amendment to the Constitution,
Considering
the increase in the total membership of the Organization and the desirability of giving Member Nations a better opportunity to serve on the Council , and of ensuring balanced geographical representation,
Considering
further that, in order to ensure efficiency in the exercise of its functions the Council should in no case have a membership exceeding one third of the total membership of the Organization,
Having examined
the Report of the Council and the draft amendments to Article V-1 of the Constitution and Rule XXII.1(b) of the General Rules of the Organization, recommended by the
Council
,
Adopts
the following amendments to the Constitution and the General Rules of the Organization:
Words underlined to be added, and words in square brackets [ ] to be deleted.
"
1.
A Council of the Organization consisting of [
thirty-four
]
forty-two
Member Nations shall be elected by the
Conference
...
"
(b)
The Conference shall make such provisions as will ensure that the terms of office of [
eleven
]
fourteen
members of the Council shall expire in each [
of two successive
] calendar year[
s and twelve in the third calendar year
].
"
Decides
that two additional seats shall be allocated each to the Regions of Africa, Asia and the Far East, and Latin America, and one additional seat each to the Regions of Europe and the Near East.
(Adopted
16 November 1973
)