Whereas the General Assembly of the United Nations has recognised that it is necessary that the specialised agencies should enjoy, at the earliest possible date, the privileges and immunities essential for an efficient exercise of their respective functions, and has pointed out that a considerable delay will necessarily ensue before the Convention on privileges and immunities of the specialised agencies becomes operative in the case of the various agencies; and

Recommends that the States Members of the International Labour Organisation, whether or not they are Members of the United Nations, should, pending their formal accession to the general Convention concerning the privileges and immunities of the specialised agencies as modified by the annex relating to the International Labour Organisation, immediately accord as far as possible to and in connection with the International Labour Organisation the benefit of the privileges and immunities provided for in the said general Convention as modified by the annex relating to the International Labour Organisation.