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(/) To authorize the Director-General to reinforce the research staffs of the Chinese and Indian Branches of the International Labour Office, and to establish progressively a network of branch offices and correspondents in other Asian countries, including Burma, Ceylon, Malaya, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Siam ; (g) To provide for the extension and development of the facilities of the International Labour Organization for according to Asian Governments at their request appropriate assistance in connection with the framing of regulations, the improvement of administrative practices, and systems of inspection and the development of information and research services ; (h) To arrange for the immediate publication of the decisions of the present Conference in appropriate Asian languages, and to resume and extend the publication in Asian languages of selected publications of the International Labour Office ; (i) To draw the attention of the Director-General to the importance attached by Asian countries to the recruitment of an adequate number of nationals of Asian countries having adequate experience of the social and economic problems of Asia ; (j) To consider the advisability of — (i) Constituting an Asian Advisory Committee to advise the Governing Body on Asian questions and the Asian aspects of general questions ; (ii) Authorizing the Director-General to establish a small coordinating Secretariat to facilitate the implementation of the above programme. II The Conference—(a) Welcomes the acceptance of membership in the International Labour Organization by Pakistan and the news that arrangements are being made for the acceptance of membership in the Organization by the Philippine Republic ; (b) Takes note that Burma on becoming independent, and Ceylon on attaining fully responsible self-Government within the British Commonwealth, will shortly be eligible for admission to the International Labour Organization and may be expected to submit applications for membership to the Thirty-first Session of the International Labour Conference ; (c) Welcomes the attendance at the present Conference of an observer representing Nepal, and places on record its hope that this participation may inaugurate a fruitful association between Nepal and the International Labour Organization. 111 The Conference — (a) Welcomes the participation in the present Conference of tripatite delegations of non-metropolitan territories in the Asian region ; (b) Draws the special attention of the Governing Body to the urgent importance of continuing and developing the practice of providing for similar participation of these territories in the Asian work of the Organization ;

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