Text 5. The Council

TEXT 4. ICAO

ICAO is the specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for all aspects of civil aviation. It sets international standards and regulations neces­sary for safety and regularity of air transport and serves as the forum for co­operation in all fields of civil aviation among its contracting states. Through its regional offices situated at strategic locations throughout the world, and through its regular programme of worldwide meetings held at its headquarters ICAO is in direct and frequent contact with civil aviation authorities in all member-states. Their most knowledgeable experts are often invited to help the Secretariat solve specific problems. The organization also gains deep understanding of the needs and the problems facing countries in every stage of development. It is not only an international regularity agency, not only as «a friend in need», when things go wrong, not only as a source of assistance in technical training, but as an expert and impartial body whose advice is of value to them in all their civil aviation developments. ICAO's primary concern has been with international civil aviation. Among its multifaceted activities ICAO becomes engaged in projects relating to both domestic and international civil aviation, whenever it could promote the economic and social progress of developing states. ICAO is a non-profit intergovernmental organization with no commercial interests.

UNDERSTANDING CHECK Translate text 4 in writing.

The Council shall «be a permanent body responsible to the Assembly. It shall be composed of 27 Contracting States elected by the Assembly. An election shall be held at the first meeting of the Assembly and thereafter every three years, and the members of the Council so elected shall hold office until the next following election. In electing the members of the Council, the Assembly shall give adequate representation to: 1) the States of chief importance in air transport; 2) the States not otherwise included which make the largest contribution to the provision of facilities for international civil air navigation; 3) the States not otherwise included whose designation will insure that all the major geographic areas of the world are represented on the Council. Any vacancy on the Council shall be filled by the Assembly as soon as possible; any Contracting State so elected to the Council shall hold office for the unexpired portion of its predecessor's term of office. •

The Council shall elect its President for a term of three years. He may be reelected. He shall have no vote. The Council shall elect from among its members one or more Vice Presidents who shall retain their right to vote when serving as acting President. The President need not be selected from among the representatives of the members of the Council, but, if a representative is elected, his seat shall be deemed vacant and it shall be filled by the State which he represented. The duties of the President shall be to:

a) convene meetings of the Council, the Air Transport Committee, and the Air Navigation Commission;

b) serve as representative of the Council;

c) carry out on behalf of the Council the functions which the Council assigns to him.

(Chicago Convention; Chapter IX;

Articles 50, 51)

GRAMMAR CHECK

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FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES

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