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Press meet to forge broad regiona
- Subject: Press meet to forge broad regiona
- From: suriya@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 00:26:00
Subject: Press meet to forge broad regional ties
Headlines
Press meet to forge broad
regional ties
TWO dozen representatives from
Southeast Asian independent
organisations involved in protecting press
freedom will meet in Bangkok this weekend
to forge a broad regional alliance to
deepen their work.
The two-day meeting at the Dusit Thani
Hotel will start on Saturday with the keynote
speech by Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan
on ''Promoting and Protecting the
Southeast Asian Press'' followed by panel
discussions by leading journalists from the
region.
The discussions, which end on Sunday, will
focus on ways and means to protect and
monitor press freedom in Southeast Asia
and the networking of various like-minded
organisations within the region.
For the past two decades, monitoring press
abuses in Southeast Asia has been done
through Western-based human-rights
organisations. This will be the first regional
attempt to unite existing independent
organisations and set up a regional
mechanism to perform this task.
Among those participating are the Alliance
of Independent Journalists, the Indonesian
Institute for Studies in the Free Flow of
Communication, the Centre for Media
Freedom and Responsibility and the
Philippine Centre for Investigative
Journalism.
The Reporters' Association of Thailand will
play host to the seminar in conjunction with
the Committee to Protect Journalists and
the World Press Freedom Committee.
The Nation