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 63 STAT.] MULTILATERALTELECOMMUNICATIONS-OCT. 2, 1947 ARTICLE VIII Personnel Arrangements 1. The United Nations and the Union agree to develop as far as practicable common personnel standards, methods and arrangements designed to avoid serious discrepancies in terms and conditions of em- ployment, to avoid competition in recruitment of personnel, and to facilitate any mutually desirable interchange of personnel in order to obtain the maximum benefit from their services. 2. The United Nations and the Union agree to co-operate to the fullest extent possible in achieving these ends. ArTOcLE IX Statistical services 1. The United Nations and the Union agree to strive for maximum co-operation, the elimination of all undesirable duplication between them, and the most efficient use of their technical personnel in their respective collection, analysis, publication, standardization, improve- ment and dissemination of statistical information. They agree to combine their efforts to secure the greatest possible usefulness and utilization of statistical information and to minimize the burdens placed upon national governments and other organizations from which such information may be collected. 2. The Union recognizes the United Nations as the central agency for the collection, analysis, publication, standardization, improve- ment and dissemination of statistics serving the general purposes of international organizations. 3. The United Nations recognizes the Union as the central agency responsible for the collection, analysis, publication, standardization, improvement and dissemination of statistics within its special sphere, without prejudice to the rights of the United Nations to concern itself with such statistics so far as they may be essential for its own pur- poses or for the improvement of statistics throughout the world. All decisions as to the form in which its service documents are com- piled rest with the Union. 4. In order to build up a central collection of statistical informa- tion for general use, it is agreed that data supplied to the Union for incorporation in its basic statistical series or special reports should so far as practicable be made available to the United Nations upon request. 5. It is agreed that data supplied to the United Nations for incor- poration in its basic statistical series or special reports should so far as practicable and appropriate be made available to the Union upon request. 1535

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