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Whereas the International Labour Office has co-operated with Members of the Organization in an advisory capacity in the; planning and development of social security schemes by means of expert missions, and it is now desirable to take further measures to make the experience of social security administration gained by members individually available through the International Labour Office to other members about to introduce social security schemes or to amend their existing schemes ; and Whereas the Inter-American Conference on Social Security adopted at its first session, held at Santiago de Chile in 1942, resolutions favouring co-operation among social security administrations and institutions with a view to the unification of statistics of medical care and the encouragement of research and technical studies ; The Conference requests the International Labour Office— (ft) To take the necessary measures to facilitate the interchange of qualified technicians and experts by means of agreements between Members of the Organization ; (b) To continue efforts to promote, on an international or regional basis, systematic and direct collaboration among social security administrations or institutions with a view to the regular interchange of information which will facilitate their work and the study of common problems in the application of social security ; among these problems the following, are enumerated without implying any order of preference— (i) The comparability of statistics on the working of social security services, and their possible standardization; (ii) Long-term investment of the reserves of social security institutions ; (iii) Simplification of social security administration ; (iv) Relations between social security institutions based oil assistance and those based on insurance ; (v) The prevention of the risks covered ; (vi) The training and technical improvement of the personnel of social security administration through the organization of courses of higher study in the actuarial and accounting fields and others related to the application of social security systems ; (c) To study the possibility and appropriateness of international or multilateral agreements which would establish bodies responsible for performing common functions, in the field either of finances or of administration. XIV Resolution concerning the Definition of Terms used in International Conventions and Recommendations concerning Social Security Whereas it would greatly contribute to the clarification of the terms used in Conventions and Recommendations concerning social security to establish an international nomenclature of social security terms in order to avoid misinterpretation due to differences in the terminology employed in various countries ; The Conference requests the International Labour Office to prepare, in consultation with experts on social security, 011 sociology, and on economic and legal questions, a list containing definitions of terms occurring in international Conventions or Recommendations on social security, with a view to arriving at international agreement. XV Resolution concerning Social Security in Asiatic Countries Whereas the proposals for the promotion of social security before the Conference are for the most part inapplicable to Asiatic countries such as India in their present stage of industrial development ; and Whereas the Asiatic Member States constitute a large part of the world with vast populations which should not be excluded from the benefits of the proposed measures, for the promotion of social security, having regard to the aims and purposes of the International Labour Organization ; The Conference recommends that an Asiatic regional conference be held at as early a date as possible and that the question of the organization of social security be included in the agenda of that conference. XVI Resolution including the Question of Minimum Standards of Social Policy in Dependent Territories (Supplementary Provisions) in the Agenda of the Next General Session of the Conference In accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 16 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization, the Twenty-sixth Session of the International Labour Conference decides to include in the agenda of the next general session of the International Labour Conference the question of— Minimum standards of social policy in dependent territories (supplementary provisions).

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