18 invites the Council to take appropriate measures to ensure that ITU continues to collaborate actively in the development of telecommunication/ICT services in LLDCs and SIDS, invites Member States 1 to cooperate with LLDCs and SIDS in promoting regional, subregional, multilateral and bilateral projects and programmes for telecommunication infrastructure integration that afford LLDCs and SIDS greater access to international fibre-optic networks; 2 to assist LLDCs and SIDS and transit countries in executing telecommunication infrastructure integration projects and programmes, encourages landlocked developing countries and small island developing states to continue to accord high priority to telecommunication/ICT activities, by putting in place technical cooperation activities in order to promote integral socioeconomic development, invites Member States, Sector Members, Associates and Academia to continue to support ITU Telecommunication Development Sector studies of the situation of telecommunication/ICT services in LDCs, LLDCs, SIDS and countries with economies in transition so identified by the United Nations and requiring special measures for telecommunication/ICT development.