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They will make further efforts to facilitate the freer and wider dissemination of information
of all kinds, to encourage co-operation in the field of information and to improve the working
conditions for journalists.
In this connection and in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and their relevant international commitments concerning seeking, receiving and imparting information of all kinds, they will ensure
that individuals can freely choose their sources of information.
In this context they will
• ensure that radio services operating in accordance with the ITU Radio Regulations can be
directly and normally received in their States; and
• allow individuals, institutions and organizations, while respecting intellectual property
rights, including copyright, to obtain, possess, reproduce and distribute information material of all kinds.
To these ends they will remove any restrictions inconsistent with the above-mentioned obligations and commitments.
(35) They will take every opportunity offered by modern means of communication, including cable and satellites. to increase the freer and wider dissemination of information of all
kinds. They will also encourage co-operation and exchanges between their relevant institutions, organizations and technical experts, and work towards the harmonization of technical
standards and norms. They will bear in mind the effects of these modem means of communication on their mass media.
(36) They will ensure in practice that official information bulletins can be freely distributed
on their territory by the diplomatic and other official missions and consular posts of the other participating States.
(37) They will encourage radio and television organizations, on the basis of arrangements between them, to broadcast live, especially in the organizing countries, programmes and discussions with participants from different States and to broadcast statements of and interviews
with political and other personalities from the participating States.
(38) They will encourage radio and television organizations to report on different aspects
of life in other participating States and to increase the number of telebridges between their
countries.
(39) Recalling that the legitimate pursuit of journalists’ professional activity will neither render them liable to expulsion nor otherwise penalize them, they will refrain from taking restrictive measures such as withdrawing a journalist’s accreditation or expelling him because
of the content of the reporting of the journalist or of his information media.
(40) They will ensure that, in pursuing this activity, journalists, including those representing
media from other participating States, are free to seek access to and maintain contacts with
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