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States, as well as exchanges of opinions at round table meetings, seminars, symposia,
summer schools, congresses and other bilateral and multilateral meetings.
(ii) Printed Information
• To facilitate the improvement of the dissemination, on their territory, of newspapers
and printed publications, periodical and non-periodical, from the other participating
States. For this purpose:
they will encourage their competent firms and organizations to conclude agreements
and contracts designed gradually to increase the quantities and the number of titles of
newspapers and publications imported from the other participating States. These agreements and contracts should in particular mention the speediest conditions of delivery and the use of the normal channels existing in each country for the distribution of
its own publications and newspapers, as well as forms and means of payment agreed
between the parties making it possible to achieve the objectives aimed at by these agreements and contracts; where necessary, they will take appropriate measures to achieve
the above objectives and to implement the provisions contained in the agreements and
contracts.
• To contribute to the improvement of access by the public to periodical and non-periodical printed publications imported on the bases indicated above. In particular:
• they will encourage an increase in the number of places where these publications are
on sale,
• they will facilitate the availability of these periodical publications during congresses,
conferences, official visits and other international events and to tourists during the
season,
• they will develop the possibilities for taking out subscriptions according to the modalities particular to each country;
• they will improve the opportunities for reading and borrowing these publications In
large public libraries and their reading rooms as well as in university libraries.
They intend to improve the possibilities for acquaintance with bulletins of official information issued by diplomatic missions and distributed by those missions on the basis of
arrangements acceptable to the interested parties.
(iii) Filmed and Broadcast Information
- To promote the improvement of the dissemination of filmed and broadcast information. To this end:
• they will encourage the wider showing and broadcasting of a greater variety of
recorded and filmed information from the other participating States, illustrating the
various aspects of life in their countries and received on the basis of such agreements
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