STATISTICAL SERVICES
1. The United Nations and the Union agree to co-operate with a view to
securing the greatest possible usefulness and utilization of statistical information
and data.
2. The Union recognizes the United Nations as the central agency for the
collection, analysis, publication, standardization and improvement of statistics
serving the general purposes of international organizations.
3. The United Nations recognizes the Union a~ the appropriate agency
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for the collection, analysis, publication, standardization and improvement
of statistics within its special sphere, without prejudice to the right of the
United Nations to concern itself with such statistics so far as it may be essential
for its own purposes or for the improvement of statistics throughout
the world.
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