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25. Appropriate international action should be taken to support the efforts of the Asian countries to obtain the equipment and financial and technical assistance necessary for developing their capacity for production and for ensuring employment at a high level and to secure the supplies of food and of essential consumers' goods which they need during the period of development. 26. The programmes of economic development undertaken by the Asian countries should, so far as practicable, be co-ordinated in such a way as to secure the maximum gains in international division of labour; with this end in view, each Asian country should keep the appropriate international organizations informed of its prospective development programme. 27. Measures taken by the Asian countries to deal with post-war economic restoration should so far as possible be so framed as to contribute towards the economic development of Asia on a long-term basis. 7. Resolution concerning Industrial Development in Japan The attainment of full employment and a high level of productivity in the Asi art countries will be seriously prejudiced if their standards of living are imperilled by the need to compete with economic dumping. The Conference expresses its emphatic disapproval of such dumping, and requests the Governing Body to examine the question and, where necessary, to make any representations on the subject which may be desirable to the appropriate international agencies, and in particular to draw the attention of the authorities responsible for fixing the future level of industrial development in Japan to the dangers of dumping to the working and living conditions in other Asian countries. 8. Resolution concerning Representation of Agricultural and Cottage Industry Workers Considering that the great majority of workers in Asian countries are agriculturists, that, in addition, there are large numbers of cottage industry workers, and that the problem of these classes will increasingly engage the attention of the Organization. The Conference invites the Governing Body to consider, in consultation with the Governments of the countries represented at this Conference, and employers' and workers' organizations, the question of more adequate representation at such Conferences of persons engaged in agriculture and the cottage industry. 9. Resolution concerning the Placing op Conventions and Recommendations op the International Labour Organization bepore the National Legislatures 1. The prompt discharge of the obligation imposed on each member of the International Labour Organization by virtue of Article 19 of the Constitution of the Organization to submit conventions and recommendations to the competent authorities for consideration and appropriate action is of fundamental importance for the progressive application in Asian countries of the standards embodied in the conventions and recommendations adopted by the International Labour Conference ; conventions and recommendations should be submitted to the competent authorities in a manner which permits of adequate consideration of their provisions. 2. The Conference also suggests that it is desirable that the Governments of the non-metropolitan territories represented at the Conference should, as appropriate to their respective constitutional arrangements, submit to the competent authorities

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