At the Chicago Conference, the drafters of the Convention
on International Civil Aviation had anticipated the emergence of a United
Nations type of post-war organization and had written into the Convention a
provision covering the possibility of ICAO becoming a constituent of such
organization. Article 64 of the Chicago Convention signed on 7 December 1944 reads
as follows: “The Organization may, with respect to air matters within its
competence directly affecting world security, by vote of the Assembly, enter
into appropriate arrangements with any general organization set up by the
nations of the world to preserve peace.”
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Mali
– 10 November 1975 30th Anniversary of UN Charter UN emblem and names of the Specialized Agencies
(including OACI, Organisation de l’aviation civile internationale, in
the right branch of the letter N) forming the acronym ONU (Organisation
des Nations Unies) |
At the first ICAO Assembly held in May 1947, a
resolution was adopted that enabled the President of the Council to sign a
protocol for the bringing into force of an agreement concerning such a relationship
between the United Nations (UN) and ICAO. President Warner signed the protocol
on 3 October 1947. ICAO became a Specialized Agency in relationship with the
UN, and thereby joined the UN family. By this agreement, each organization
undertakes to fulfil certain requirements whereby the other may participate in
its work in the measure required for fulfilment of certain articles of the
Chicago Convention and the Charter of the UN.
While ICAO remained an independent and autonomous
agency, its acquisition of constituency status in the United Nations
Organization was a major step, which greatly benefited many of its Contracting
States in the years that followed, mainly through the United Nations Programme
of Technical Assistance.
The UN family of organizations, i.e. the United
Nations system, is made up of the UN Secretariat, the UN Programmes and Funds
(such as UNICEF, UNHCR, WFP, or UNDP) and the Specialized Agencies (such ILO,
UNESCO, WHO, WMO, FAO, IMO, ITU, UPU or ICAO).
As a Specialized Agency of the UN, ICAO works
closely with the UN, and particularly with the Economic and Social Council.
Moreover for its technical activities, ICAO works closely too with certain of
the Specialized Agencies, such as:
1. The
International Telecommunications Union (ITU);
2. The
World Meteorological Organization (WMO);
3. The
World Health Organization (WHO);
4. The
Universal Postal Union (UPU); and
5. The
International Labour Organization (ILO).
In the ICAO collection, several countries observed
the close cooperation of the UN family by issuing first day covers (FDC)
showing the relationship between the members of the family. The circumstances
of those issues varied, e.g. the United Nations Day (24 October), or the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December 1948).
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Congo - First
day cover dated 10 December 1958 (Afrique Équatoriale Française or French Equatorial Africa in 1958) 10th Anniversary of UN Universal
Declaration of Human Rights Black
cachet |
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Liberia – 17 December 1958 10th
Anniversary of UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights UN emblem and initials of
UN Agencies (with ICAO’s name, in the upper-right corner) |
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Brazil - First
day cover dated 24 October 1970 25th
Anniversary of the United Nations The UN family’s
tree (with ICAO’s name, on the lower-left
side) The
stamp strip reads: Peace, Justice, Progress. |
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Costa Rica – 24 October 1961- United Nations Day - The UN family Note that the
acronyms in the cachet are spelled in French and that the acronym BIRF should have been
written BIRD for Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement (International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development - IBRD). |
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Republic of
Korea - 30 May 1971 The
world of United Nations Organizations |
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Equatorial Guinea - 24 October 1975 30th Anniversary
of the United Nations UN and UN Specialized Agencies emblems (including ICAO preliminary emblem
with larger wings) |
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Bhutan - 24 October 1985 40th
Anniversary of the United Nations Preamble to the UN Charter; has bright blue margins picturing the emblems of the UN
agencies |
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