they will encourage the wider showing and broadcasting of a greater variety of recorded and filmed information from the other participating States, illustrating the various aspects of life in their countries and received on the basis of such agreements or arrangements as may be necessary between the organisations and firms directly concerned;
they will facilitate the import by competent organisations and firms of recorded audio-visual material from the other participating States.
The participating States note the expansion in the dissemination of informa- tion 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 organisations, including press agencies, as well as among publishing houses and organisations;
they will favour co-operation among public or private, national or interna- tional radio and television organisations, 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 pro- grammes;
they will encourage meetings and contacts both between journalists' organisations 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 par- ticipating States, for the purposes of exchanging and publishing articles; they will encourage the exchange of technical information as well as the organisation 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; facilitate the issue to accredited journalists of the participating States of permits for stay in their country of temporary residence and, if and when these are necessary, of other official papers which it is appropriate for them to have;
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