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or arrangements as may be necessary between the organizations and firms directly
concerned;
• they will facilitate the import by competent organizations and firms of recorded audiovisual material from the other participating States.
The participating States note the expansion in the dissemination of information broadcast by radio, and express the hope for the continuation of this process, so as to meet
the interest of mutual understanding among peoples and the aims set forth by this Conference.
(b) Co-operation in the Field of Information
- To encourage co-operation in the field of information on the basis of short or long
term agreements or arrangements. In particular:
• they will favour increased co-operation among mass media organizations. Including
press agencies, as well as among publishing houses and organizations:
• they will favour co-operation among public or private, national or international radio
and television organizations, in particular through the exchange of both live and
recorded radio and television programmes, and through the joint production and the
broadcasting and distribution of such programmes;
• they will encourage meetings and contacts both between journalists organizations
and between journalists from the participating States;
• they will view favourably the possibilities of arrangements between periodical publications as well as between newspapers from the participating States, for the purpose
of exchanging and publishing articles;
• they will encourage the exchange of technical information as well as the organization of joint research and meetings devoted to the exchange of experience and views
between experts in the field of the press, radio and television.
(c) Improvement of Working Conditions for Journalists
The participating States, desiring to improve the conditions under which journalists
from one participating State exercise their profession in another participating State,
intend in particular to:
• examine in a favourable spirit and within a suitable and reasonable time scale requests
from journalists for visas;
• grant to permanently accredited journalists of the participating States, on the basis of
arrangements, multiple entry and exit visas for specified periods;
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