This volume is divided into two sections. The first, concerning the status, privileges and immunities of IMO, includes:

• Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized agencies; – Agreement between the International Maritime Organization and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland regarding the Headquarters of the Organization, as amended; – Agreement between the International Maritime Organization and – the Government of Sweden regarding the World Maritime University.

The second section contains agreements with intergovernmental organizations, including:

• Agreement between the United Nations and the International Maritime Organization and Protocol
• Agreement between the United Nations and the International Maritime Organization for the admission of the International Maritime Organization into the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
• Special Agreement between the United Nations and the International Maritime Organization extending the competence of the Administrative Tribunal of the United Nations to the International Maritime Organization
• Agreement between the International Maritime Organization and the International Labour Organisation
• greement between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Maritime Organization and Protocol
• Agreement on co-operation between the International Maritime Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Agreements of co-operation with other intergovernmental organizations.

Included in this edition of Basic Documents, Volume II, is the revised text of Annex XII to the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies and the consolidated text of the Headquarters Agreement, reflecting amendments made to this Agreement by exchange of letters in 1971, 1974, 1982, 1997 and 2002.