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2. " News despatch " means news material transmitted in writing or by means of telecommunications, in the form customarily employed by information agencies in transmitting such news material, before publication, to newspapers, news periodicals and broadcasting organizations. 3. " Information agency " means a press, broadcasting, film, television or facsimile organization, public or private, regularly engaged in the collection and dissemination of news material, created and organized under the laws and regulations of the Contracting State in which the central organization is domiciled and which, in each Contracting State where it operates, functions under the laws and regulations of that State. 4. " Correspondent " means a national of a Contracting State or an individual employed by an information agency of a Contracting State, who in either case is regularly engaged in the collection and the reporting of news material, and who when outside his State is identified as a correspondent by a valid passport or by a similar document internationally acceptable. Gathering and International Transmission of News Article II In order to facilitate the freest possible movement of correspondents in the performance of their functions, the Contracting States shall expedite, in a manner consistent' with their respective laws and regulations, the administrative procedures necessary for the entry into, residence in, travel through and egress from their respective territories of correspondents of other Contracting States together with their professional equipment, and shall not impose restrictions which discriminate against such correspondents with respect to entry into, residence in, travel through or egress from such territories. Article 111 The Contracting States, while recognizing that correspondents and information agencies must conform to the laws in force in the countries in which they are operating, agree that correspondents of other Contracting States legally admitted into their territories shall not be expelled on account of any lawful exercise of their right to collect and report news material. Article IV x The present Convention shall not apply to any correspondent of a Contracting State who, while not otherwise admissible under the laws and regulations referred to in Article II into the territory of another Contracting State, is nevertheless admitted conditionally in accordance with an agreement between that other Contracting State and the United Nations or a specialized agency thereof, in order to cover their proceedings, or pursuant to a special arrangement made by that other Contracting State in order to facilitate the entry of such correspondents.