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MONTSAME elected as OANA’s technical committee member
映像Co-organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and AZERTAC, plenary sessions of the 16th General Assembly of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) have been held in Baku.
The General Assembly was preceded by the 40th meeting of the OANA Executive Board. The 16th General Assembly continued with plenary sessions which was addressed by OANA president, Director General of TASS news agency Sergey Mikhaylov who hailed the development of information technologies in recent years. He also pointed to the establishment of the committee of ethics of OANA, saying this was important amid growing cases of journalists facing violence in some countries. The event then featured a ceremony to award winners of "OANA Excellence Award"-employee of Korean Yonhap agency Tae Sung Chung and a representative of Russia's TASS agency Andrey Lebedev. AZERTAC' s Director General Aslan Aslanov was elected as a new president of OANA. Azerbaijan's AZERTAC, Russia's TASS, Iran's Mehr, Mongolia's Montsame, Indonesia's Antara, Kazakhstan's Kazinform, Kuwaiti KUNA were elected as members of the organization's technical committee. As a result of voting AZERTAC, Vietnamese WAM, Japan's Kyodo, Australian AAP agencies were elected as OANA ethics committee members. Yonhap agency of the Republic of Korea put forward its bid to host the 17th OANA General Assembly, which was approved by voting. Yonhap agency will chair OANA between 2019 and 2022. Bahrain was elected as host of the 42nd Executive Board meeting that will take place in March, 2017.
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