FORUM OF NATIONAL MASS MEDIA OPENS IN MOSCOW
A three-day Forum of national mass media of the CIS member countries, to discuss the theme “Mass media and humanitarian potential of the Commonwealth of Independent States” opened in Moscow. The Forum is organized by the Russian "RIA Novosti News Agency" together with the Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund. Representatives of influential mass media of the CIS, leading representatives of analytical community of the countries of Commonwealth, and also representatives of the Russian supreme bodies of executive and legislature, parliament and CIS institutes of interstate cooperation take part at the Forum.
Head of department of the political analysis and information of President Administration Elnur Aslanov, and also heads of leading Azerbaijan mass media takes part in Forum.
In his remarks, E. Aslanov on behalf of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan wished successes the participants of Forum and expressed hope that discussions and exchange of views are a good platform for discussion and creates good possibility that mutual relations could advance on qualitatively new level. As he said, this third forum of national mass media and the past stages allow saying that there is more potential, ample opportunities for dialogue and realization of the turned out ideas. “The fact of carrying out of such Forum of national mass media, testifies that the judgments that the CIS was a dead born child, are groundless. Today, the Forum have gathered representatives more than 60 leading mass media, ready to discuss the form of effective interaction concerning qualitative and fruitful development of mutual relations, intensifying fruitful cooperation”, Mr. Aslanov stressed.
E. Aslanov reminded that the next year has been declared the Year of Youth in Commonwealth territory, and the subsequent is the Year of Science and Innovations, which, according to him, testifies to scale of humanitarian cooperation of the CIS.
E. Aslanov also noted “a number of the positive moments which allow speaking about humanitarian potential of cooperation between Azerbaijan and Russia - about functioning in our country of more than 350 Russian-speaking schools, a large quantity of mass media in Russian, much editions surpassing in quantity during the Soviet period. All this shows necessity and demand of the Russian language in formation of mutual relations and cooperation between our countries.” He has especially underlined the fact of opening of branch of the Moscow State University in Azerbaijan, effective interaction with the Moscow Linguistic University, functioning of RIA Novosti News Agency in Azerbaijan, and also opening in Baku of the “Russian World” Center, which, undoubtedly, is possible to characterize, as mutually advantageous cooperation.
According to Mr. Aslanov, the term “common information space” is not absolutely clear, as each state has its national interests, its approaches to questions, and therefore, it is difficult enough to speak about the common information space. “The information space is formed not to a lesser degree by a conjuncture - geo-political, geo-economic and other components. The concept “common information space” also is ambiguous, he underlined.
The Forum is expected to discuss models of steady information partnership and expansion of information-humanitarian sphere of cooperation at the expense of integrated media projects, creation of constantly operating Council of the Heads of Mass Media of the countries of post-Soviet space and a number of other questions representing mutual interest.
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