56th Session of the Council of Arab Information Ministers Kicks Off
Session discusses key challenges facing Arab media and ways to coordinate Arab media efforts
Amr Yehia
The work of the 56th session of the Council of Arab Information Ministers kicked off today at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States, chaired by Somali Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Abdiqadir Qasim Mohamud, President of the current session, and in the presence of Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy and Ambassador Ahmed Rashid Khattabi, Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States and Head of the Media and Communication Sector.
Egypt's delegation to the meeting is headed by Minister of State for Information Diaa Rashwan.
The session discusses a number of items that addressed the most prominent challenges facing Arab media, and ways to coordinate Arab media efforts and enhance their presence at both regional and international levels, where the Council discusses media support for the Palestinian cause, and follow-up on the implementation of the Arab media action plan abroad, in addition to the work of the Arab Committee for Electronic Media, and the role of Arab media in confronting terrorism.
The Council also discusses the Arab Media Map for Sustainable Development 2030, setting a unified strategy for dealing with international media companies, encouraging quality and professional media excellence and enhancing the capabilities of Arab media professionals, in addition to following up on the executive plan of the Arab Strategy for Media and Information Literacy.
The agenda also includes discussing the unified Arab plan for dealing with environmental issues in the media, employing artificial intelligence in Arab media and its impact on the human element, in addition to the file of the Capital of Arab Media, and Arab-Chinese cooperation in the field of media.
The Council of Arab Information Ministers is discussing the draft internal regulations of the Council of Arab Information Ministers, and the draft internal regulations of the Executive Bureau of the Council, and the request of the Lebanese Ministry of Information to obtain support from member states, in addition to the activities of organizations and unions concerned with media work, and the activities of the Media and Communication Sector and centers and missions of the Arab League abroad.
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