International Press Institute will conduct its 58th World-wide Congress and General Assembly on June 7 at Helsinki. The Program for this worthy ceremony is already confirmed. Official letters from the General Director of IPI regarding the issue has also arrived to the Azerbaijan National Committee. Head of the IPI Azerbaijan National Committee and Chairman of International Eurasia Press Fund, Umud Rahimoghlu said: “I participated in the 57th assemble of IPI last year with Azer Hasrat at Serbia. We had many interesting and substantial meetings there. This year the meeting will be held in Helsinki. Activity, future plans and some key problems of the world’s press is planned to be discussed there.
High officials from Finland have scheduled to participate. Themes at the event will be on different directions, mainly on issues concerning economic crisis – “Recovering economy and support to media” and media development – “Is economy development possible without free media?” There will also be various other wide ranges of topics for discussions.
“By the way I would like to note that there are constant relations between International Press Institute – one of the leading institutes in the world in protection of journalist’s laws and the Azerbaijan National Committee. As members of the National Committee, we regularly take part on IPI activities” – said Umud Rahimoghlu, talking about IPI-National Committee relations.
It should be noted that, Azerbaijan National Committee proposed to host one of the IPI World-wide Congress. Discussions on this direction are still on-going and there are great success achieved.
IEPF Information Department