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" (/) To report to the General Assembly, should the occasion arise, on any changes in the Committee's constitution or its terms of reference which may be considered desirable in the light of experience; "3. The Interim Committee is authorized to request advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice on legal questions arising within the scope of the Committee's activities ; " 4. In discharging its duties, the Interim Committee shall at all times take into account the responsibilities of the Security Council under the Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security as well as the duties assigned by the Charter or by the General Assembly or by the Security Council to other Councils or to any committee or commission. The Interim Committee shall not consider any matter of which the Security Council is seized and which the latter has not submitted to the General Assembly." 4. United Nations Field Service At the second part of its third session the General Assembly established a special Committee to study the proposal for a United Nations Guard put forward by the Secretary-General.* To this Committee the Secretary-General submitted the revised proposal that there be set up a United Nations Field Service —a force of up to 300 men—and a United Nations Panel of Field Observers. (This would involve an estimated expenditure of under $2,000,000 per year, in comparison with the $4,000,000 which had been estimated to be the cost of the previously proposed Guard.) The Field Service would have the responsibility of ensuring protection for, and providing technical services to, United Nations missions. The Panel of Field Observers would undertake the functions of observing truce terms and supervising polling-places during plebiscites. The Panel would be composed of lists of individuals eligible for service who were to be, however, under no legal obligation to perform the functions envisaged. They were to be called for service only as a result of a specific decision of the Assembly or the Security Council. The majority of the special Committee approved the establishment of a Field Service, pointing out that it was quite clearly not an international military force and would in fact be no more than an extension of the regular Secretariat. Article 97 of the Charter gave the SecretaryGeneral full authority to establish such a Service. With regard to the Panel of Field Observers, the special Committee recommended that the Assembly should authorize the Secretary-General to establish and maintain such a panel and that it should consist of qualified persons selected by the Secretary-General in consultation

* See External Affairs Publication No. 82 at p. 28.