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host countries with regard to conditions of employment and work and to social security, and to endeavour to ensure that migrant workers may enjoy satis- factory living conditions, especially housing conditions;

To endeavour to ensure, as far as possible, that migrant workers may enjoy the same opportunities as nationals of the host countries of finding other suitable employment in the event of unemployment;

To regard with favour the provision of vocational training to migrant workers and, as far as possible, free instruction in the language of the host country, in the framework of their employment;

To confirm the right of migrant workers to receive, as far as possible, regular information in their own language, covering both their country of origin and the host country;

To ensure that the children of migrant workers established in the host country have access to the education usually given there, under the same conditions as the children of that country and, furthermore, to permit them to receive supple- mentary education in their own language, national culture, history and geography;

To bear in mind that migrant workers, particularly those who have acquired qualifications, can by returning to their countries after a certain period of time help to remedy any deficiency of skilled labour in their country of origin;

To facilitate, as far as possible, the reuniting of migrant workers with their families;

To regard with favour the efforts of the countries of origin to attract the savings of migrant workers, with a view to increasing, within the framework of their economic development, appropriate opportunities for employment, thereby facilitating the reintegration of these workers on their return home.

The participating States,

Training of personnel

Conscious of the importance of the training and advanced training of professional staff and technicians for the economic development of every country, Declare themselves willing to encourage co-operation in this field notably by promoting exchange of information on the subject of institutions, programmes and methods of training and advanced training open to professional staff and technicians in the various sectors of economic activity and especially in those of management, public planning, agriculture and commercial and banking techniques;

Consider that it is desirable to develop, under mutually acceptable conditions, exchanges of professional staff and technicians, particularly through training activities, of which it would be left to the competent and interested bodies in the participating States to discuss the modalities - duration, financing, education and qualification levels of potential participants;

Declare themselves in favour of examining, through appropriate channels, the possibilities of co-operating on the organisation and carrying out of vocational training on the job, more particularly in professions involving modern techniques.

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