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 3554 Adoption of Decla- ration. Prindple INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. are necessary for the fulfilment of its purposes. 2. Delegates to the Conference, members of the Governing Body and the Director-General and offi- cials of the Office shall likewise enjoy such privileges and immuni- ties as are necessary for the inde- pendent exercise of their functions in connection with the Organisa- tion. 3. Such privileges and immuni- ties shall be defined in a separate agreement to be prepared by the Organisation with a view to its acceptance by the Members. ANNEX Declaration concerning the aims and purposes of the International La- bour Organisation. The General Conference of the International Labour Organisa- tion, meeting in its Twenty-sixth Session in Philadelphia, hereby adopts, this tenth day of May in the year nineteen hundred and forty-four, the present Declaration of the aims and purposes of the International Labour Organisation and of the principles which should inspire the policy of its Members. I The Conference reaffirms the fundamental principles on which the Organisation is based and, in particular, that: (a) labour is not a commodity; (b) freedom of expression and of association are essential to sus- tained progress; (c) poverty anywhere consti- tutes a danger to prosperity every- where; (d) the war against want re- quires to be carried on with unre- lenting vigour within eaeh nation,

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