6TH MEDIA CONFERENCE ON "JOURNALISTIC EDUCATION, IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF EDUCATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY IN THE SOUTH CAUCASIAN COUNTRIES" STARTED IN TBILISI
AZG DAILY
2009-11-20 00:28:31 (GMT +04:00)
The 6th media conference on "Journalistic education, improvement
of quality of education and new technology in the South Caucasian
countries" has started in Tbilisi on Thursday.
About 70 journalists participate in the two-day conference
The conference is organized on the initiative of the Office of OSCE
Representative on Freedom of the Media.
Chief of the international relations department of the Georgian
parliament Akaki Minashvili delivered welcoming speech at the
conference.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti said it
was important for the journalists to get education abroad to gain
experience. He said Tbilisi conference had significant importance
for approaching of Azerbaijani and Armenian journalists and it has
arisen from the requirements of "people to people diplomacy".
According to Haraszti, Armenia and Georgia already adopted defamation
law.