126 Civil and Political Rights PART II other countries, and. to improve the conditions under which journalists from one participating State exercise their profession in another participating State, and Express their intention in particular: (a) Improvement of the Circulation of, Access to, and Exchange of Information (…) (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. (…) - To contribute to the improvement of access by the public to [imported] periodical and nonperiodical printed publications (…) (iii) Filmed and Broadcast Information - To promote the improvement of the dissemination of filmed and broadcast information (…) 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;