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It is noteworthy that the Constitutions of a number of International
Organisations contain provisions for membership of Slates which arc
5 not members of the United Nations. Moreover, some of these Con­
stitutions provide for full membership of Slates which are not fully
independent, and these Constitutions also provide for associate
membership of non-independent territories whose international rela­
tions are controlled by a State member of the United Nations.1 It
appears that Kuwait joined the above International Organisations
under those provisions for membership of sovereign Stales which arc
not members of the United Nations.2
The procedure by which Kuwait acceded to the Constitution of
UNESCO will now be described.
On 2 June 1960 the Director-General of UNESCO wrote to the
Secretary-General of the United Nations saying:
I have the honour to inform you that on 28th April, I received application
dated 25th April, 1960, from His Highness the Ruler of Kuwait, for Kuwait’s
admission to membership of the UNESCO.
I enclose a copy of the application, together with a copy of a letter from
the United Kingdom Foreign Office stating that Her Majesty’s Government
regards Kuwait as responsible for the conduct of her international relations,
and I should be grateful if you cause it to be laid before the Economic and
Social Council in its 30th Session.3

The application of the Ruler of Kuwait, dated 25 April 1960, for
membership of UNESCO was couched in the following terms:

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter XVI of the Rules of Pro­
cedure of the General Conference of (UNESCO), I hereby submit an
application on the part of Kuwait for admission to full membership of the
Organisation. I request that this application be transferred to the Economic

first joined on 30 April 1958, as an Associate Member. See 10th Session of General
Conference of UNESCO, 1958, Document 10C./30.
It is to be noted that Bahrain has become an Associate Member of UNESCO,
and Qatar had joined the organisation earlier.
1 Examples of the above provisions can be found in Article 93 of the I.C.A.O.
Convention, in Article 3 of the U.P.U. Convention, and in Article 6 of the WHO
Constitution. Kuwait was thus admitted to WHO under Article 6 of the WHO
Constitution which provides for membership of States which arc not members of
the United Nations. The admission of Kuwait to WHO was by Resolution WHA
13.11 of 9 May 1960 which stated: ‘That the 13th WHA admits Kuwait as a
Member of the WHO, subject to the deposit of a formal instrument__ ’ See WHO
Bulletin, vol. 23, Nos 2-3, 1960.
2 For illustrations, see above examples in n. 1.
3 U.N. Economic and Social Council, 30th Session, 1960, Agenda Item 23.
Kuwait was admitted to membership of UNESCO on 25 July 1960 (E/Resolution
774(XXX)). For the Note of the Secretary-General of the U.N., dated 17 June, and
for the letter of the Director-General of UNESCO, see ibid., E/3363/Add. 2
pp. 1-2.