MEETING OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Please endeavour to enlist support for following proposals:-

(A) No more Commissions to be set up;

(B) No more meetings of Status of Women Commission this year;

(C) Alternates to be allowed to attend Sub-Commissions with full
rights. [1] (This revises previous policy);

(D) Representatives on Commissions and Sub-Commissions are
nominated by Governments, and on election do not become
international civil servants at beck and call of Secretary-
General. No Government can permit its nominees to be invited to
New York at times not under its control and has the right to
expect that communications to such nominees should be addressed
through it.

The Government and the Department have been greatly embarrassed in
several cases by independent action taken by Commission and Sub-
Commission Delegates which has the guise of official sanction
because they are officially nominated. We wish to be able to make
it perfectly clear to these people that while we regard them as
experts the final responsibility for their actions must rest with
the Government.[2]