<b>Alison Bethel McKenzie, the Interim Director of the International Press Institute and Anthony Mills, the Press Freedom and Communications Manager – who came to Baku on 21 February with the invitation of Umud Mirzayev, the Chairman of the International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF) – are keeping visiting media houses and organizations of Azerbaijan.</b>
They have meting with the Azerbaijan Newspaper, Public TV Station, Jacqueline Carpenter, the Democratization Programme Manager of the OSCE Office in Baku and Rovshan Bagirov, Director of the Public Relations/Mass Media Deparment of the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation.
Mirzayev said that, the 23 February visits were concluded at the house of the Yeni Musavat Newspaper. The IPI representatives made a talk with the editor-in-chief Rauf Arifoglu on the being state of development of the Azerbaijan media.
At the all meetings, they were accompanied by Nick Nwolisa, a department head of the International Eurasia Press Fund.
Created in 1950, IPI, a very influential body of the world media having representatives in 120 countries and the headquarters, is located in Vienna. Its annual meetings of World Congress and General Assembly are joined, usually, by nearly five hundreds of renowned media representatives, heads of states, ministers and businessmen.
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