§ The Economic Committee of the Bagdad Pact which met in Ankara from the 17th to the 21st of January approved a number of recommendations for action by countries which are members of the Committee. Some of these recommendations called for continuation or development of action planned at the previous Session of the Economic Committee in Karachi in May, 1957; others cover new subjects.
The following are examples: in agriculture, improved arrangements for testing and manufacture of animal vaccines, the establishment of an international centre for training and research in animal reproduction and artificial insemination in Pakistan, the rationalisation of plant quarantine systems in the region, the continuation of joint activities on pest control, soil fertility surveys; in health, co-operation in antimalarial measures; in trade, co-operation in marketing of common products and the study of methods of promoting tourism in the Bagdad Pact region, studies on the possibility of establishing a Free Trade Area in the Bagdad Pact region. The recommendations on nuclear energy refer mainly to the continuation of the existing training and research activities of the Centre.The resolutions adopted by the Economic Committee result from the work of Sub-Committees which meet between Sessions of the Economic Committee and they provide the main basis for the flourishing programme of technical assistance which has now been developed on the economic side of the Pact and to which Her Majesty's Government have already committed £250,000 out of a total of £1 million made available for technical assistance over a period of five years.