22 U.S.C. § 287k — Congressional expression of satisfaction

Page 231 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 287m later than Jan. 31, 1963, a report on steps taken in the 17th Session of the General Assembly of the United Na- tions on long term financing of the United Nations which was omitted. Section was not enacted as part of act Dec. 20, 1945, ch. 583, 59 Stat. 619, known as the United Nations Par- ticipation Act of 1945, which comprises this subchapter. § 287k. Congressional expression of satisfaction that expenditures relating to operations in Middle East and in the Congo are ‘‘expenses of the Organization’’ The Congress expresses its satisfaction that the International Court of Justice has decided that the expenditures authorized in resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly relat- ing to operations in the Middle East and in the Congo are ‘‘expenses of the Organization’’ with- in the meaning of the United Nations Charter, thereby providing a sound basis for obtaining prompt payment of assessments for such expend- itures by making them obligations of all mem- bers of the United Nations. (Pub. L. 87–731, § 5, Oct. 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 696.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Dec. 20, 1945, ch. 583, 59 Stat. 619, known as the United Nations Par- ticipation Act of 1945, which comprises this subchapter. § 287l. Congressional declaration that United Na- tions take steps to give effect to advisory opinion of International Court of Justice on financial obligations of members It is the sense of the Congress that the United Nations should take immediate steps to give ef- fect to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the financial obligations of members of the United Nations in order to as- sure prompt payment of all assessments, includ- ing assessments to cover the cost of operations to maintain or restore international peace and security. (Pub. L. 87–731, § 6, Oct. 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 696.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Dec. 20, 1945, ch. 583, 59 Stat. 619, known as the United Nations Par- ticipation Act of 1945, which comprises this subchapter. SUBCHAPTER XVII—UNITED NATIONS EDU- CATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION § 287m. Acceptance of membership by the United States The President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the United States in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘Or- ganization’’), the constitution of which was ap- proved in London on November 16, 1945, by the United Nations Conference for the establish- ment of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, and deposited in the Archives of the Government of the United Kingdom. (July 30, 1946, ch. 700, § 1, 60 Stat. 712.) Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONSTITUTION ON BEHALF OF THEIR PEOPLES DECLARE that since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be con- structed; that ignorance of each other’s ways and lives has been a common cause, throughout the history of mankind, of that suspicion and mistrust between the peoples of the world through which their differences have all too often broken into war; that the great and terrible war which has now ended was a war made possible by the denial of the demo- cratic principles of the dignity, equality and mutual re- spect of men, and by the propagation, in their place, through ignorance and prejudice, of the doctrine of the inequality of men and races; that the wide diffusion of culture, and the education of humanity for justice and liberty and peace are indis- pensable to the dignity of man and constitute a sacred duty which all the nations must fulfill in a spirit of mutual assistance and concern; that a peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements of governments would not be a peace which could secure the unanimous, lasting and sincere support of the peoples of the world, and that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind. FOR THESE REASONS, the States parties to this Constitution, believing in full and equal opportunities for education for all, in the un- restricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free ex- change of ideas and knowledge, are agreed and deter- mined to develop and to increase the means of commu- nication between their peoples and to employ these means for the purposes of mutual understanding and a truer and more perfect knowledge of each other’s lives; IN CONSEQUENCE WHEREOF they do hereby create the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation for the purpose of advancing, through the educational and scientific and cultural relations of the peoples of the world, the objec- tives of international peace and of the common welfare of mankind for which the United Nations Organisation was established and which its Charter proclaims. ARTICLE I. Purposes and Functions 1. The purpose of the Organisation is to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or re- ligion, by the Charter of the United Nations. 2. To realise this purpose the Organisation will: (a) collaborate in the work of advancing the mu- tual knowledge and understanding of peoples, through all means of mass communication and to that end recommend such international agreements as may be necessary to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image; (b) give fresh impulse to popular education and to the spread of culture; by collaborating with Members, at their request, in the development of educational activities; by instituting collaboration among the nations to advance the ideal of equality of educational op- portunity without regard to race, sex or any dis- tinctions, economic or social;