IMPLEMENTATION OF BEIRUT AGREEMENT.

SEC. 207. IMPLEMENTATION OF BEIRUT AGREEMENT. The first section of the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution to give effect to the Agreement for facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character, approved at Beirut in 1948”, approved October 8, 1966 (19 U.S.C. 2051), is amended by adding at the end the following: “In carrying out this section, such Federal agency or agencies may not consider visual or auditory material to fail to qualify as being of international educational character— “(1) because it advocates a particular position or viewpoint, whether or not it presents or acknowledges opposing viewpoints; “(2) because it might lend itself to misinterpretation, or to misrepresentation of the United States or other countries, or their people or institutions; “(3) because it is not representative, authentic, or accurate or does not represent the current state of factual knowledge of a subject or aspect of a subject unless the material contains widespread and gross misstatements of fact; “(4) because it does not augment international understanding and goodwill, unless its primary purpose or effect is not to instruct or inform through the development of a subject or an 105 STAT. 694aspect of a subject and its content is not such as to maintain, increase, or diffuse knowledge; or “(5) because in the opinion of the agency the material is propaganda. “Such Federal agency or agencies may not label as propaganda any material that receives a certificate of international educational character under this section and the Agreement.”.