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The following international organizations were represented by observers : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. International Labour Organization. League of Red Cross Societies. Office International d y Hygiene Publique. Pan-American Sanitary Bureau. Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization. The Rockefeller Foundation. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. World Federation of Trade Unions. The Conference had before it, and used as the basis of discussion, Proposals for the Constitution of the World Health Organization and the Resolutions adopted by the Technical Preparatory Committee of Experts. The Committee was established in accordance with the resolution of the Economic and Social Council, dated 15 February, 1946. A number of proposals put forward by Governments and various organizations were also before the Conference. As a result of the deliberations of the Conference as recorded in the minutes and reports of the respective Committees and subcommittees and of the plenary sessions, the following instruments were drawn up and separately signed : Constitution of the World Health Organization. Arrangement for the Establishment of an Interim Commission of the World Health Organization. Protocol concerning the Office International d' Hygiene Publique. The Conference adopted the following resolution : " The Conference notes with gratification the steps already taken by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to provide temporary machinery for carrying on the remaining activities of the League of Nations Health Organization, as recommended in Resolution V of the Technical Preparatory Committee on 5 April, 1946, and requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in order to avoid duplication of functions, to make the necessary arrangements for transferring to the Interim Commission of the World Health Organization as soon as possible such functions of the League of Nations Health Organization as have been assumed by the United Nations." In witness whereof the undersigned delegates sign this Final Act:— Done in the City of New York this twenty-second day of July, 1946, in a single copy in the Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish languages, each text being equally authentic. The original texts shall be deposited in the archives of the United Nations. The Secretary-General of the United Nations will send certified copies to each of the Governments represented at the Conference.