Assistance to the Palestinian people – SecGen report

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION ON THE GRANTING OF INDEPENDENCE

TO COLONIAL COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES BY THE SPECIALIZED AGENCIES AND

THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE UNITED NATIONS

Assistance to the Palestinian people

Report of the Secretary-General

Addendum

International Maritime Organization

1. The Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), at its forty-first session, decided, on 27 October 1978, that the national liberation movements recognized, inter alia, by the League of Arab States should be invited as observers to IMO meetings and conferences.

2. In order to implement this decision, the IMO Assembly, at its eleventh session, amended its rules of procedure on 6 November 1979.  Observers from the Palestine Liberation Organization have attended IMO meetings and conferences since that date.

3. Consultations are currently in progress between IMO and UNRWA in order to determine and to agree on appropriate arrangements for the provision of training facilities for Palestinian trainees in the maritime field.

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