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advice and has devoted most of its deliberations to the problems of adjusting ICEMs operations to changing conditions and of developing more effective methods of financing migration and the services that stimulate migration preoccupied the attention of the Council at Naples. More specifically there was discussion of expanding ICEMs technical services to Latin American Governments to assist them to establish more adequate immigration administrations for the reception and placement of immigrants. All of the Latin American member governments made urgent pleas for more effective ICEM assistance in locating sorely needed skilled and semiskilled workers for the expanding industries in Latin America. There were demands also for assistance in placing experienced immigrant workers in agriculture and in developing projects for land settlement in order that development in agriculture keep pace with industrial development and make its contribution to balanced economic development as a whole. The Council particularly approved the establishment with ICEM assistance of a farm training and reception center for immigrant agricultural workers in the Argentine. Argentina. Italy. Spain. and the United States will join in the initial financing through ICEM of this experimental pilot project which all agreed had been soundly conceived and planned. As one measure of increasing operational income the Council adopted a resolution directing the administration to seek opportunities to increase the proportion of migrants moved by ICEM who contribute to the costs of their own movements through prepayments before departure or repayments on passage loans after arrival in the immigration country. ICEM has had encouraging experience in developing migrant participation and further developments in this direction will tend to lessen the dependence on the U.S. contribution in financing ICEMs operations. There was lively debate at the session at Naples on improving the methods of financing ICEMs operations generally. It has been the constant purpose of U.S. delegations to Council sessions to secure broader participation by other member governments in meeting the costs of ICEMs operations and to encourage member governments which benefit most from ICEM activities to raise the level of their financial contributions. At the Naples session the United States was. therefore. pleased to support the initiative of Italy and the Netherlands in establishing a Committee on Finance which will have the special task of reviewing the proportionate contributions to transport of the emigration country. the migrant. and the immigration country. and the assistance which ICEM is required to supply from its operating funds. The committee will also study better ways and means of financing ICEMs services. The expansion of these services in the Latin American countries will be dependent on the development of more adequate income to support them. As was to be expected. each member government vigorously supported its own special interests in ICEMs activities at Naples. Nonetheless. the constant references in the discussions to the importance and essentiality of multilateral action in the field of migration gave proof that ICEM has met a real need which governments of the free world recognize. Constant effort will be required to apply ICEMs services skillfully to the changing conditions in emigration and immigration countries.