Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
The thirteenth Congress of the Universal Postal Union was held at the Palais des Academies in Brussels from May 14 to July 15, 1952, with representatives from 91 countries present. The Congress, which met to revise the convention and its executive regulations concluded at Paris in 1947 as well as facultative agreements and their executive regulations also concluded in Paris, had before it more than 1,700 proposals for amending the Paris Acts. After electing E. Pineux (Belgium) President and F. Hess (Switzerland) Vice-President, the Congress established eight committees.
1 For summary of the work of the twelfth Universal Postal Congress, which met in Paris in 1947, see International Organization, II, p. 137.
2 Union Postale, LXXVII, p. 146 A.
3 Ibid., p. 148 A.
4 Ibid., p. 152 A.
5 Ibid., p. 155 A.