An eight-week training programme on the fundamentals of technical assistance opened here on 18 September 1964 for government officials from 14 developing countries. The programme is to provide the participants with a basic knowledge of the principles, methods and procedures of technical assistance carried out by the United Nations throughout the world. Photographed in the Office of the Commissioner for Technical Assistance (left to right); Mr. Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg (Brazil), Mr. Mohammed Ouzidane (Algeria), Mr. Nizar Farhat (Libya), Mr. Kwassi Jean-Lucien Savi de Tove (Togo), Mr. Ahmed Valentin N'Gakoutou (Chad), Mr. Ba Tuong Pham (Viet-Nam), Mr. Mamoutou Kone (Mali), Mr. Victor Hoo, Under-Secretary and Commissioner for Technical Assistance, Mr. Mame Boucar Diouf (Senegal), Mr. Aksit Kayalar (Turkey), Mr. Somsanpuk Chounlamountri (Laos), Mr. Abdel-Majid Trabulsi (Syria), Mr. Hachmi Ben Ghabrit (Morocco), Mr. Mohammed Nadir Marouf (Algeria), Mr. Paul Alpert, Chief of Section on the Formation of Group Programmes, and Mr. Hedayatullah Akram (UN).