Reference. CONFIDENTIAL dy 143 Mr. Holding (Arabian Department) UN AGENCIES AND THE TRUCIAL STATES Would you please refer to Green's letter to youof 30 June at folio and Wall's letter of 29 July toColes in Dubai at folio 0,14. 2. To secure associate membership for the TrucialStates of the FAO an application accompanied or followedby a formal instrument of acceptance of the constitution on their behalf, must reach the Director Generalat least thirty days before the opening of the conference Session. Since the next General Conference is notuntil November 1971, this need not concern us for thetime being. Membership of UNICEF is a rather differentkettle of fish altogether from membership of the UNagencies. UNICEF is a "special Body" of the UN, andconsists of an Executive Board of thirty states, membersof the UN or of the specialised agencies, designatedby ECOSOC with due regard to geographical distributionand to the representation of the major contributingand recipient countries for three year terms, with tenretiring each year. As I understand it (I am pursuingthis further with the ODM) there can be no question ofgeneral membership or, thus, associate membership ofthis special Body". 3. The immediate question, however, is associatemembership of UNESCO. The General Conference openson 12 October, and to ensure that the item is inscribedon the agenda, an application must be sent to theDirector-General on their behalf at least six weeksbefore the opening: i.e. the deadline is the end ofAugust. Indeed, to be quite certain, we ought to aimat the beginning of the last week in August. The nextoccasion on which associate membership could be considered is the next General Conference two years hence. 4. We discussed this be by telephone, and myunderstanding is Arabian Department may well wish todelay applications for associate memberships fromindividual Trucial States, or indeed from the TrucialStates Council as a whole, until the political situation in the area is cleares. If we wish to apply forassociate membership on behalf of the Trucial StatesCouncil we shall presumably have to make enquiriesfirst of the UNESCO Secretariat to ensure that theywould accept the competence of the Council. If we /wish to CONFIDENTIAL
