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WORLD PRESS MEET IN DELHI IN JANUARY

The Asian Age (New Delhi)
December 14, 2000

New Delhi, Dec. 13: India will host a four-day world congress and 50th
general assembly of the International Press Institute, a global body to
safeguard the freedom of press, to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Atal
Behari Vajpayee on January 27.

The congress is being held in New Delhi after a gap of 35 years. It was
last hosted by India in 1966 when there were just around 60
participants.

?Now the IPI membership is around 2,000 and we expect 500 participants
at the Delhi assembly,? Mr Philip Mathew, international board member of
the IPI said at a press conference here.

The congress will be addressed by luminaries from different fields of
excellence like Amartya Sen, the Dalai Lama, Arundhati Roy, chief
ministers S.M. Krishna and Farooq Abdullah and Union ministers Arun
Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj. Ms Shobana Bhartia, chairperson, Indian IPI,
said hosting the congress was a very significant event for the country
which had bid for it after a gap of over 30 years.

Mr M.K. Razdan, chairman, business advisory committee of IPI world
assembly, said six business sessions will be spread over three days ?
India, Experiment in Democracy; The Indian Media Landscape: Tensions and
Conflicts in the Indian Subcontinent; The Global Information Revolution;
Exploiting the Internet for Publishing Companies; and Freedom Of
Expression in the IT era.

President K.R. Narayanan will host a tea for the delegates on January 28
at the Rashtrapati Bhavan?s Mughal Gardens.

The IPI, a network of editors and media executives from the world over
representing the collective voice of the print and electronic media from
around 100 countries, was founded in New York in 1950.

Boston was the venue this year, IPI?s golden jubilee year. In April, the
Boston IPI ratified the decision to hold next year?s world congress in
New Delhi.

The next congress is to be held in Slovenia, followed by Kenya in 2003
and Poland in 2004. Held in a different country each year, it focuses on
political hot spots in regions undergoing transformation.

It is being held in New Delhi at a time when the Asian continent is
witnessing profound political, economic and social changes. Mr Mathew
said India had only six months to prepare for the congress, which is
generally held in May.

It was decided to hold it in January so that delegates could begin their
four-day programme with the Republic Day parade on January 26 and watch
the Beating Retreat ceremony on January 29.

The IPI, which rushes its delegation to any country where the freedom of
press is under threat, at its board meeting last month put Venezuela,
Peru and Sri Lanka on the watch list to monitor how journalists were
being treated there. At the inaugural session, besides Mr Vajpayee,
there will be speeches by IPI chairman Hugo Butler, IPI director Johann
Fritz, Mr Philip Mathew and Ms Shobana Bharatia while the closing
ceremony will be addressed by the Dalai Lama and Amartya Sen.



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<p>The Asian Age (New Delhi)
<br>December 14, 2000
<p><b>New Delhi, Dec. 13:</b> India will host a four-day world congress
and 50th general assembly of the International Press Institute, a global
body to safeguard the freedom of press, to be inaugurated by Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee on January 27.
<p>The congress is being held in New Delhi after a gap of 35 years. It
was last hosted by India in 1966 when there were just around 60 participants.
<p>?Now the IPI membership is around 2,000 and we expect 500 participants
at the Delhi assembly,? Mr Philip Mathew, international board member of
the IPI said at a press conference here.
<p>The congress will be addressed by luminaries from different fields of
excellence like Amartya Sen, the Dalai Lama, Arundhati Roy, chief ministers
S.M. Krishna and Farooq Abdullah and Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Sushma
Swaraj. Ms Shobana Bhartia, chairperson, Indian IPI, said hosting the congress
was a very significant event for the country&nbsp; which had bid for it
after a gap of over 30 years.
<p>Mr M.K. Razdan, chairman, business advisory committee of IPI world assembly,
said six business sessions will be spread over three days ? India, Experiment
in Democracy; The Indian Media Landscape: Tensions and Conflicts in the
Indian Subcontinent; The Global Information Revolution; Exploiting the
Internet for Publishing Companies; and Freedom Of Expression in the IT
era.
<p>President K.R. Narayanan will host a tea for the delegates on January
28 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan?s Mughal Gardens.
<p>The IPI, a network of editors and media executives from the world over
representing the collective voice of the print and electronic media from
around 100 countries, was founded in New York in 1950.
<p>Boston was the venue this year, IPI?s golden jubilee year. In April,
the Boston IPI ratified the decision to hold next year?s world congress
in New Delhi.
<p>The next congress is to be held in Slovenia, followed by Kenya in 2003
and Poland in 2004. Held in a different country each year, it focuses on
political hot spots in regions undergoing transformation.
<p>It is being held in New Delhi at a time when the Asian continent is
witnessing profound political, economic and social changes. Mr Mathew said
India had only six months to prepare for the congress, which is generally
held in May.
<p>It was decided to hold it in January so that delegates could begin their
four-day programme with the Republic Day parade on January 26 and watch
the Beating Retreat ceremony on January 29.
<p>The IPI, which rushes its delegation to any country where the freedom
of press is under threat, at its board meeting last month put Venezuela,
Peru and Sri Lanka on the watch list to monitor how journalists were being
treated there. At the inaugural session, besides Mr Vajpayee, there will
be speeches by IPI chairman Hugo Butler, IPI director Johann Fritz, Mr
Philip Mathew and Ms Shobana Bharatia while the closing ceremony will be
addressed by the Dalai Lama and Amartya Sen.
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