POLITICS
AzerTAc to chair News Agencies World Congress in 2016-2019 VİDEO
Riyadh, November 20 (AZERTAC). Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency (AZERTAC) will hold the presidency of the News Agencies World Congress (NAWC) in 2016-2019.
The decision was adopted at the 4th News Agencies World Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on November 20. The congress brings together heads of more than 70 leading news agencies, including Turkey's Anadolu, Russia's ITAR-TASS, Egypt's MENA, Argentina's TELAM, French Agence France-Presse, UK's Press Association, Australian Associated Press, Thomson Reuters, Southern Korea's YONHAP, and news alliances such as OANA, EANA, FANA, IINA, and media corporations, including SKY News Arabia, Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, and BBC, and internet corporations such as MSN, Google and Yahoo.
The 1st News Agencies World Congress was held in Moscow, Russia, in 2004, the 2nd was hosted by Estepona, Spain, in 2007, and the 3rd took place in Buenos-Aires, Argentina, in 2007.
