authentic, evidence-based and scientifically sound historical sources and archaeological findings. The Committee’s work shall be supervised by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Parties in cooperation with other competent national authorities. It shall consider and, if it deems appropriate, revise any school textbooks and school auxiliary material such as maps, historical atlases, teaching guides, in use in each of the Parties, in accordance with the principles and aims of UNESCO and the Council of Europe. To that effect, the Committee shall set specific timetables so as to ensure in each of the Parties that no school textbooks or school auxiliary material in use the year after the signing of this Agreement contains any irredentist/revisionist references. The Committee shall also study any new editions of school textbooks and school auxiliary material as provided for under this Article. The Committee shall convene regularly, at least twice a year, and shall submit an Annual Report on its activities and recommendations to be approved by the High-Level Cooperation Council, as to be established pursuant to Article 12.
6. The Parties acknowledge that the abovementioned mutually accepted solutions which have derived from the negotiations will contribute to the definitive establishment of peaceful and good neighbourly relations in the region, in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions 817 (1993) and 845 (1993).
PART 2
INTENSIFICATION AND ENRICHMENT OF COOPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES
ARTICLE 9
1. The Parties agree that their strategic cooperation shall extend to all sectors, such as agriculture, civil protection, defence, economy, energy, environment, industry, infrastructure, investments, political relations, tourism, trade, trans-border cooperation and transport. This strategic cooperation shall apply not only to the sectors included in this Agreement but also to those that in the future may be deemed beneficial to both countries and indispensable. All these sectors should be incorporated into a comprehensive Action Plan during the course of the development of bilateral relations.
2. The existing CBMs shall be incorporated into the abovementioned Action Plan. The latter shall aim at the implementation of the provisions of this Part of this Agreement. The Action Plan shall be enriched and developed continuously.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
ARTICLE 10
Upon the entry into force of this Agreement:
1. the First Party shall promptly upgrade:
a) its existing Liaison Office in the capital of the Second Party to an Embassy; and
b) its existing Office for Consular, Economic and Commercial Affairs in the town of Bitola in the Second Party to a General Consulate; and
2. the Second Party shall promptly upgrade:
a) its existing Liaison Office in the capital of the First Party to an Embassy; and
b) its existing Office for Consular, Economic and Commercial Affairs in the town of Thessaloniki in the First Party to a General Consulate.
