(ANSAmed) - ROME, JUNE 25 - ANSA is to host from tomorrow to
June 29 in Rome, the 21st General Assembly of the Alliance of
Mediterranean Press Agencies (AMAN) of which it will hold the
presidency - with the objective of contributing to a greater
partnership and a further joining of the north and south side of
the Mediterranean.
For three days, Presidents, Directors and delegates of the 19
main press agencies of the region will have the chance to meet
and confront each other on the changes going on in the countries
facing onto the Med, and on the role of the media within these
new contexts. On the 27 there will be a seminar organized by
ANSA at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Gregoriana
University. "Italy for the Mediterranean Region - Information
and Development", is the theme of the first round table which is
to take place in the Foreign Ministry, with the participaton of
the presidents of the Campania Region, Stefano Caldoro, Lazio,
Renata Polverini, Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti, and Puglia,
Nichi Vendola. The seminar will then meet in the Gregorian
University, and will have representatives of the Italian
Institutions and of the EU commission for a meeting on the theme
"Italian Institutions in the Mediterranean Region: Italian
investments in the aftermath of the Arab Spring". A discussion
will then be held by a panel of RAI journalists and of the main
Italian newspapers on the theme: "Communication for cooperation:
Information and Multimedia News systems as driving forces for
the Mediterranean network."
AMAN is made up, other than ANSA, of the following press
agencies: ANADOLU, AFP, AMI, ANA, APS, ATA, CNA, EFE, HINA,
JANA, LUSA, MAP, MENA, NNA, SANA, TANJUG, TAP and WAFA. The
talks of the 21st General assembly will end on June 28 with the
official ceremony which will hand over the presidency of AMAN
from Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, director general of MAP, the
Moroccan Agency, to ANSA's president Giulio Anselmi.(ANSAmed).
