III Eurasian Media Forum opened in Almaty

The III Eurasian Media Forum has opened today, on 22 April, in Almaty. Around 400 journalists, analysts, scientists, researchers, experts, and politicians from more than 50 world countries participate in it.

The forum participants will be discussing a number of political, economic and media subjects for three days. Special attention will be paid to the coverage of these problems in media.

Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of RK, speaking on freedom of media in RK at the Forum, stated positive tendencies of mass media development in Kazakhstan are related with the extension of activities of public journalist institutions – the Congress and the Union of Journalists, the Broadcasters Association and others.

The Kazakhstan President also marked that the Constitution Council on Wednesday recognized a number of norms of the law on the mass media adopted by the parliament recently are not corresponding to the Constitution. Thus, this law is not approved by Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Also, it is planned to discuss the role of media during election campaigns, the role of international organizations in the recovery of media structures in conflict countries, the development tendencies of state, public, and commercial media and problems of interaction between authorities and journalists, issues of providing security for journalists and prospects of developing the entertainment industry in the region.

April 22, 2004. By Kazakhstan Today http://www.gazeta.kz/