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Now THEREFORE THE ASSEMBLY RESOLVES : That the Council authorize the Special Committee created to report on the standardization of dimensional systems in international air navigation to consult experts appropriately qualified in the various fields to be surveyed and that the Council give' the following terms of reference to the Special Committee : (1) To determine the nature and importance of the handicaps imposed on civil aviation by lack of unification of units of measurement and to recommend the best means of overcoming such handicaps ; (2) To recommend how agreement may soonest be reached for the unification of practice respecting the greatest possible number of units of measurement tobe used in communications between aircraft in flight and ground stations ; (3) To study and report on the nature and the timing of the steps that would have to be taken to secure the application of the metric system in civil aviation in the event it should finally be internationally adopted in this field. XXVIII DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT Resolved : That the document resulting from the discussion of the problems involved in the development of a Multilateral Agreement on Commercial Rights in International Civil Air Transport, which document is referred to in the resolution adopted by the third Plenary Meeting and recited at paragraph 32 of the minutes of that Meeting, shall consist of — (a) A verbatim transcript of the oral discussion on that subject which took place in Commission No. 3 during the current session of the Assembly, as edited and placed in the hands of the Secretariat on or before 30 June, 1946 ; (b) Written comments of member States submitted at the meetings of said Commission ; (c) Such further written comments as may be received from member States on or before 30 June, 1946. XXIX CITEJA DRAFT CONVENTION ON ASSISTANCE AND SALVAGE OF AIRCRAFT BY AIRCRAFT ON LAND Whereas : Important aspects of this matter hav§ not yet been fully considered by certain Governments, and PICAO is already studying questions in connection with search and rescue and accident investigation, which are under consideration ; The Assembly resolves : That consideration of the CITEJA draft convention on Assistance and Salvage of Aircraft by Aircraft on Land be postponed, and that the technical problems involved in the subject-matter of the said draft convention be studied further by the Council in connection with its pending projects. XXX AMENDMENTS TO THE WARSAW CONVENTION Whereas : The First Interim Assembly of the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization is of the opinion that consideration of more extensive revision of the Convention of Warsaw than is contained in the amendments proposed by CITEJA is desirable, in view of the rapid development of air transport in recent years, and particularly during the current period ; and that greater ultimate good will accrue to international air transport if more extensive revision as aforesaid is considered, even_ at the expense of farther delay; ~ ,

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