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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
The United Nations is approaching a point where a decision must soon be reached concerning the expansion of its present facilities. Notwithstanding the increases which have been made in delegate seating in the General Assembly Hall, the Council chambers, and the conference rooms in recent years, these are now filled almost to capacity as additional political entities have been accorded membership. The delegates' lounge and dining room are uncomfortably crowded during Assembly sessions. In the Secretariat the staffs of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) have been moved to rented quarters in order to relieve overcrowding and to obtain adequate working space. The Secretary-General has reported to the General Assembly that the Headquarters buildings are now “completely occupied” and that plans must be made to provide adequate office space for the personnel expected to be on hand in the 1970's, assuming that the United Nations continues to remain an active force in international affairs.
1 See the report of the Secretary-General on Headquarters accommodation in UN Document A/C.5/-1062, September 30, 1966.
2 The text of Rockefeller's, Mr. letter will be found in General Assembly Official Records … Permanent Headquarters Committee (Ist session, second part), 25th meeting, 12 11, 1946, p. 149Google Scholar.Up to this point die Organization had been considering sites to the north of the city itself.
3 Report to the General Assembly of the United Nations by the Secretary-General on The Permanent Headquarters of the United Nations (UN Document A/311) (Lake Success, N.Y: United Nations, 1947) (hereinafter cited as UN Document A/311), p. 19Google Scholar.
4 The members of this Board nominated by Member States were Wallace K. Harrison (United States), Chief Architect and Director of Planning; N. D. Bassov (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Gaston Brunfaut (Belgium); Ernest Cormier (Canada); Charles E. Le Corbusier (France); Liang Ssu-ch'eng (China); Sven Markelius (Sweden); Oscar Niemeyer (Brazil); Howard Robertson (United Kingdom); G. A. Soilleux (Australia); and Julio Vilamaó (Uruguay).
5 See UN Document A/311, pp. 18–23, and the summary records of the meetings of die Ad Hoc Committee on Headquarters, September 24–November 13, 1947, in UN Documents A/AC.15/SR.1–5.
6 UN Document A/311, p. 74.
7 United Nations Press Feature No. 213/Rev.5, August 1966.
8 Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 1967 and Information Annexes (General Assembly Official Records [21st session], Supplement No. 5), Table 7–2, p. 61.
9 “Architectural and Engineering Survey on the Expansion of the Permanent Headquarters of the United Nations” (UN Document A/C.5/993, November 1963).
10 See the reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in UN Document A/5714 and General Assembly Official Records (19th session), Supplement No. 7.
11 See Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 1967, p. 61.
12 See UN Document A/C.5/1062, p. 10 and Annex III.
13 See the report of the Secretary-General in UN Document A/C.5/1075, October 28, 1966, which was approved by the Fifth Committee at its 1156m meeting (UN Document A/6631, December 19, 1966, p. 20).
14 UN Document A/C.5/1062, p. 8.
15 Ibrd., Table 3, p. 7.
16 Ibrd., Table 4, p. 8, and Annex II.
17 UN Document A/311, pp. 79–80.
18 UN Document A/C.5/1062/Add.1, December 5, 1966, pp. 2–3.
19 UN Document A/6631, pp. 22–23.
20 The New Yor/ Times, December 6, 1966.
21 UN Document A/6631, p. 23.
22 U.S. Congress, Public Law 903, 80th Congress, 2nd Session, 1948.
23 U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, The United Nations at Twenty-One, 90th Congress, 1st Session, 1967, p. 22Google Scholar.
