TALKS END IN MANILA

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30085, 20 March 1963, Page 8

TALKS END IN MANILA

Satisfaction At E.CA.F.E. (N .Z.P .A.-Reuter—Copyright) MANILA, March 18. The nineteenth session of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (E.C.A.F.E.) ended its 12-day conference today with delegates and observers from more than 40. countries and several United Nations agencies and organisations expressing satisfaction over the work accomplished. The delegates, in the last session this morning, considered and then unanimously approved the draft of its report which would now be submitted to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

The resolutions in the draft included one which established an Asian institute for economic development and planning to be set up in Bangkok in January next year, one on E.C.A.F.E. participation in the United Nations conference on trade and development to be convened in 1964, one calling for accelerated measures for regional economic co-operation for development of trade and industry, one for the continued development of water resources of the lower Mekong basin, one on the co-opera-tive movement in the E.C.AF.E. region, and one asking for technical training and assistance in the development programmes of countries in.the E.CA.FX region. The next E.CA.F.E. conference will be in Persia next year.