ECOWAS
REVISED
TREATY
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ARTICLE 66
THE PRESS
1.
In order to involve more closely the citizens of the Community in the regional
integration process, Member States agree to co-operate in the area of information.
2.
To this end they undertake as follows:
a)
to maintain within their borders, and between one another, freedom of
access for professionalsof the communication industry and for information
sources;
b)
to facilitate exchange of information between theirpressorgans;to promote
and foster effectivedissemination of informationwithin the Community;
c)
to ensure respect for the rights of journalists;
d)
to takemeasures toencourage investment capital, bothpublic and private,
in the communication industries in Member States;
e)
to modernise the mediaby introducing training facilities for new information
techniques; and
f)
to promote and encourage dissemination of information in indigenous
languages, strengthening co-operation between national pressagencies and
developing linkages between them.
CHAPTER XII
CO-OPERATION IN OTHER AREAS
ARTICLE 67
HARMONISATION OF POLICIES IN OTHER AREAS
Subject to the provisions of this Treaty, Member States undertake to consult with one
another, through appropriate Community institutions, for the purpose of harmonising
andco-ordination theirrespective policies in all otherfields not specifically coveredby
thisTreaty for theefficient functioning anddevelopment of the Community and for the
implementation of the provisions of this Treaty.
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