ECOWAS REVISED TREATY • 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. 40