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(g) Sport
In order to expand existing links and co-operation in the field of sport the participating
States will encourage contacts and exchanges of this kind, including sports meetings
and competitions of all sorts, on the basis of the established international rules, regulations and practice.
(h) Expansion of Contacts
By way of further developing contacts among governmental institutions and non-governmental organizations and associations, including women’s organizations, the participating States will facilitate the convening of meetings as well as travel by delegations,
groups and individuals.
2. Information
The participating States,
Conscious of the need for an ever wider knowledge and understanding of the various
aspects of life in other participating States,
Acknowledging the contribution of this process to the growth of confidence between
peoples,
Desiring, with the development of mutual understanding between the participating
States and with the further improvement of their relations, to continue further efforts
towards progress in this field,
Recognizing the importance of the dissemination of information from the other participating States and of a better acquaintance with such information,
Emphasizing therefore the essential and influential role of the press, radio, television,
cinema and news agencies and of the journalists working in these fields,
Make it their aim to facilitate the freer and wider dissemination of information of all
kinds, to encourage co-operation in the field of information and the exchange of information with 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
(i) Oral Information
• To facilitate the dissemination of oral information through the encouragement of lectures and lecture tours by personalities and specialists from the other participating
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