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CHAPTER X THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION (UPU)

During 1958, the Universal Postal Union1 con- about such matters as their respective activities, tinued its efforts for the organization and im- staff and budget. provement of postal services and to promote UPU's relations with the International Civil international co-operation to these ends. Aviation Organization (ICAO) bore primarily The Universal Postal Convention, as revised upon the study of basic rates for conveyance at Brussels in 1952,2 was still in operation during by air, commercial rights and the method of 1958, as the provisions of the new Convention,3 allocating mail to the various air transport adopted at the Postal Congress held in Ottawa undertakings. in 1957, were not due to enter into force until To the International Air Transport Associa- 1 April 1959. tion (IATA), UPU transmitted background The number of the Union's member countries documents for the meeting of the IATA/UPU rose to 98 during 1958 with the admission of Contact Committee scheduled for March 1959. the Federation of Malaya. The Association further collaborated with the Union in the calculation of air-mail distances. RELATIONS WITH OTHER The United Nations Educational, Scientific INTERNATIONAL BODIES and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) pre- UPU further co-ordinated its activities with pared a document for its member States those of the other major international organiza- analysing the decisions taken by the Universal tions with which it co-operates. Postal Congress at Ottawa on the free trans- Working more closely with the United mission of information. Following the dispatch Nations, it participated, inter alia, in the pro- of this document, several countries produced vision of technical assistance to under-developed reports showing how they were simplifying and countries (with the recruitment and appraisal encouraging the sending of printed papers of postal experts) and the control of narcotic through the mail. drugs, and it shared in arrangements for the When the Assembly of the Inter-Govern- observance of the tenth anniversary of the Uni- mental Maritime Consultative Organization versal Declaration of Human Rights. It also took (IMCO) held its first session in London in part in several exhibitions organized by the 1 For further information about UPU, see: L'Union United Nations (in the United Nations pavilion postale universelle: Sa fondation et son développement, at the Brussels Universal and International 1874-1949; Mémoire (Berne, Bureau international de Exhibition and in the Palais des Nations at l'Union 1950) ; annual reports of UPU; previous Geneva). Each of the two organizations sent volumes of Y.U.N. 2 representatives to some of the other's meetings. For text of Universal Postal Convention as revised at Brussels in 1952, see Y.U.N., 1953, pp. 798-814. They exchanged a large volume of documenta- 3 For information about Convention as revised at tion and provided each other with information Ottawa in 1957, see Y.U.N., 1957, pp. 476-480.