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ARTICLE 5

The Contracting Parties shall endeavour to promote the closest co- operation between the learned societies and educational and professional organisations of their respective countries for the purpose of giving effect to the present Convention.

ARTICLE 6

The Contracting Parties shall consider how far and under what conditions degrees, diplomas and certificates of one country may be accepted as equivalent to corresponding degrees, diplomas and certificates of the other for academic purposes and, in appropriate cases, for professional purposes.

ARTICLE 7

The Contracting Parties shall endeavour to promote by invitation or subsidy visits of individuals or groups for the purpose of developing cultura and professional co-operation.

ARTICLE 8

The Contracting Parties shall endeavour to promote co-operation between recognised youth and adult education organisations and between municipal and local authorities of their respective countries.

ARTICLE 9

Each Contracting Party shall assist the other Party in encouraging the development of a right understanding of the history, culture and institutions of the country of the former in the country of the latter by means of:—

(a) books, including textbooks, periodicals and other publications;

(b) lectures;

(c) concerts;

(d) fine arts and other exhibitions;

(e) dramatic and musical performances;

radio, films, gramophone records and other mechanical means of reproduction;

ARTICLE 10

Each Contracting Party shall endeavour to give every facility within the limits of its legislation for the importation into its territory from the territory of the other of equipment necessary for the purposes of the present Con- vention, such as pictures and other material for exhibitions, books, films and gramophone records.

Each Contracting Party shall endeavour to give every facility within the limits of its legislation for the importation into its territory from the territory of the other of equipment, such as gramophones, radio sets, film projectors and vehicles, which is required solely for the running of the cultural institutes mentioned in Article 2 of the present Convention.

ARTICLE 11

Each Contracting Party shall endeavour to promote in the schools in its territory the study of the language of the other country.

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