Report of the Secretary-General for 1974-76: Indian National Commission for Cooperation with Unesco

Abstract

Article VII of the Constitution of UNESCO provides that "each Member State shall make such arrangements as suit its particular conditions for purposes of associating its principal bodies interested in educational, scientific and cultural matters with the work of the Organization, preferably by the formation of a National Commission broadly representative of the Government and such bodies ’. It further lays down that “National Commissions or National Co-operating bodies, where they exist, shall act in an advisory capacity to their respective delegations to the General Conference and to their Governments in matters relating to the Organization and shall function as agencies of liaison in all matters of interest to it” .