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62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-INT. REFUGEE ORGANIZATION-DEC. 16, 1946 (b) if they submit to the Organization a plan for the admission to their territory, as immigrants, refugees or dis- placed persons in such numbers, and on such settlement condi- tions as shall, in the opinion of the Organization, require from the applicant State an expenditure or investment equivalent, or approximately equivalent, to the contribution that they would be called upon, in accordance with the relevant scale, to make to the budget of the Organization. 4. Those States which, on sign- ing the Constitution, express their intention to avail themselves of clause (6) of paragraph 3 of this article may submit the plan re- ferred to in that paragraph within the following three months, with- out prejudice to the presentation within six months of the relevant instrument of acceptance. 5. Members of the Organiza- tion which are suspended from the exercise of the rights and privi- leges of Membership of the United Nations shall, upon request of the latter, be suspended from the rights and privileges of this Organ- ization. 6. Members of the Organiza- tion which are expelled from the United Nations shall automati- cally cease to be members of this Organization. 7. With the approval of the General Assembly of the United Nations, members of the Organ- ization which are not members of the United Nations, and which have persistently violated the principles of the Charter of the United Nations may be suspended from the rights and privileges of the Organization, or expelled from its membership by the General Council. 8. A member of the Organiza- tion which has persistently violat- ed the principles contained in the present Constitution, may be sus- pended from the rights and privi- leges of the Organization by the General Council, and with the approval of the General Assembly of the United Nations, may be expelled from the Organization. 9. A member of the Organiza- tion undertakes to afford its gen- eral support to the work of the Organization. 10. Any member may at any time give written notice of with- drawal to the Chairman of the Executive Committee. Such notice shall take effect one year after the date of its receipt by the Chairman of the Executive Committee. ARTICLE 5 ORGANS There are established as the principal organs of the Organiza- tion: a General Council, an Ex- ecutive Committee and a Secre- tariat. ARTICLE 6 THE GENERAL COUNCIL 1. The ultimate policy-making body of the Organization shall be the General Council in which each member shall have one representa- tive and such alternates and advisers as may be necessary. Each member shall have one vote in the General Council. 2. The General Council shall be convened in regular session not less than once a year by the Ex- ecutive Committee provided, how- ever, that for three years after the Organization comes into being 59 Stat. 1031. 3041