At this week's meeting of the Executive Council it was reported that Sid-Ahmed Baghli and Nancy Hushion had each recently resigned from the Executive Council of ICOM for personal reasons, and each was thanked for their service to ICOM. The Statutes of ICOM require the Executive Council to fill by co-option any vacancy on the Executive that occurs more than 6 months before the next triennial elections, and to have regard to the region of the resigning member in making any such co-options. The Executive Council announced that the President of ICOM Arab, Prof. M.A. Nur Al Bin of Egypt, and the President of ICOM-LAC, Sra. Lorena San Roman of Costa Rica, had accepted the Executive Council's invitation to serve as Executive Council members for the remaining ten months of the present term, i.e. up to the Melbourne Triennial General Assembly in October 1998. Patrick J. Boylan (Vice-President of ICOM) City University, Frobisher Crescent, Barbican, London EC2Y 8HB, UK; phone: +44-171-477.8750, fax:+44-171-477.8887; e-mail: [log in to unmask] World Wide Web site: http://www.city.ac.uk/artspol/