Jounalists create “Caucasian Club”

ITAR-TASS News Agency
November 26, 2004 Friday

MOSCOW, November 26 — A new public organization of journalists – the
Caucasian Club, has been established on Friday under the auspices of
the International Federation of journalist unions and the Union of
Russia journalists. The goal of the new organization is to make a
positive contribution to the coverage of international problems and
in the long run to the stabilization of the situation in the Caucasus.

Journalists from Moscow, Chechnya, Dagestan, North Ossetia the
Krasnodar territory, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia were among the
first to join the Caucasian Club, which is open to new members to join.

The main credo of the new Club is strict objectivity, impartial
coverage and delicacy when covering ethnic problems, Besides. the
Caucasian Club will discuss economic and social problems of the
Caucasus, integration of national Diasporas, problems of ethnic crime.