To accomplish this in the shortest possible time will be the task of the new Organization: I It must be understood that the Organization we are discussing today is an instrumentality of the United Nations. In December last. the United Nations. anticipating the liquidation of UNRRA and recognizing the international character of the problem of displaced persons. undertook the establishment of an Organization to take over the task of caring for and resettling them. such Organization to take charge immediately after UNRRA closed up. A constitution for IROInternational Refugee Organizationwas approved by the General Assembly on December 15. 1946. and participation of the nations of the world invited. Under the constitution the signatures of 15 states were required to bring the Organization into existence. Up to this date 19 states have signed. and the allocated contributions of such signatory states total more than the 75 percent of the budget required by the constitution as a condition precedent to the Organizations establishment.