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Beirut, 27 February 2003 (United Nations
Information Service)--ESCWA
workshop on "Strengthening the Role of Arab Media for Achieving
Sustainable Development" concluded today at the United Nations
House, Beirut. The workshop was organized in cooperation with the
League of Arab States, the Arab Media Forum for Environment and
Development and the Western Asia Regional Office of the United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
Participants in the workshop agreed on the formulation of a
strategy to support Arab media experts and reporters covering
sustainable development, which would complement with the strategy
launched by the Council of Arab Ministers of Information and
Environment. They called on using information available on the
regional Web sites for the upcoming Web page of the Arab Media
Forum for Environment and Development.
Participants recommended launching two yearly scholarships in
English and French in order to improve the competency of Arab
journalists in covering sustainable development. They also called
on seeking to devote a yearly award for the best Arab media work
covering sustainable development.
Helping Arab editors and journalists to attend regional and
international conferences was one of the main decisions taken by
the participants who also recommended submitting the workshop’s
outcomes to the Arab Committee on Information in order to discuss
them during the upcoming session of the Council of Arab
Information Ministers.
It is worth noting that the workshop on "Strengthening the Role of
Arab Media for Achieving Sustainable Development" is the first in
a series of activities to be undertaken by ESCWA as a follow-up to
the World Summit on Sustainable Development held last year in
Johannesburg, South Africa. The workshop was attended by media
experts from Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya,
Morocco, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and
Yemen.
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