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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-CIVIL AVIATION-DEC. 7, 1944 CHAPTER IX THE COUNCIL Article 50 (a) The Council shall be a permanent body responsible CoapeostIon to the Assembly. It shall be composed of twenty-one of counil contracting States elected by the Assembly. An elec- tion 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. (b) In electing the members of the Council, the Assem- bly 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; and (3) the States not otherwise included whose designation will insure that all the major geo- graphic areas of the world are represented on the Council. Any vacancy on the Council shall be filled by the Assem- bly 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. (c) No representative of a contracting State on the Council shall be actively associated with the operation of an international air service or financially interested in such a service. Article 51 The Council shall elect its President for a term of Pad tof 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 Com- mission; (b) Serve as representative of the Council; and (c) Carry out on behalf of the Council the func- tions which the Council assigns to him.

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