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the participating States will also apply the provisions accepted for family re- unification.

(d) Travel for Personal or Professional Reasons

The participating States intend to facilitate wider travel by their citizens for personal or professional reasons and to this end they intend in particular:

gradually to simplify and to administer flexibly the procedures for exit and entry;

to ease regulations concerning movement of citizens from the other partici- pating States in their territory, with due regard to security requirements. They will endeavour gradually to lower, where necessary, the fees for visas and official travel documents.

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They intend to consider, as necessary, means including, insofar as ap- propriate, the conclusion of multilateral or bilateral consular conventions or other relevant agreements or understandings for the improvement of arrange- ments to provide consular services, including legal and consular assistance.

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They confirm that religious faiths, institutions and organisations, practising within the constitutional framework of the participating States, and their repre- sentatives can, in the field of their activities, have contacts and meetings among themselves and exchange information.

(e) Improvement of Conditions for Tourism on an Individual or Collective Basis

The participating States consider that tourism contributes to a fuller know- ledge of the life, culture and history of other countries, to the growth of under- standing among peoples, to the improvement of contacts and to the broader use of leisure. They intend to promote the development of tourism, on an individual or collective basis, and, in particular, they intend:

to promote visits to their respective countries by encouraging the provision of appropriate facilities and the simplification and expediting of necessary. formalities relating to such visits;

to increase, on the basis of appropriate agreements or arrangements where necessary, co-operation in the development of tourism, in particular by con- sidering bilaterally possible ways to increase information relating to travel to other countries and to the reception and service of tourists, and other related questions of mutual interest.

(f) Meetings among Young People

The participating States intend to further the development of contacts and exchanges among young people by encouraging:

increased exchanges and contacts on a short or long term basis among young people working, training or undergoing education through bilateral or multilateral agreements or regular programmes in all cases where it is possible;

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