ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN MASS MEDIA COUNCIL HOLDS CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN, June 15. /ARKA/. The Armenian-Russian Mass Media Council
(ARMC) has held its constituent assembly in Yerevan. The ARMC has
been formed on the initiative of the Russian REGNUM News Agency and
the Armenian “Iravunk” (Right) newspaper. Among the ARMC founders are
also the ARKA News Agency, AR TV channel, Armenian-Russian Business
Journal, “Argunety y Facty v Armenii” (Arguments and Facts in Armenia)
newspaper, and the representative office of the Interstate TV &
Radio Company “Mir”.
During the meeting the founders elected ARMC co-chairmen –
Editor-in-Chief of the Caucasian Chief Editorial Office, REGNUM
News Agency, Armenika Kiviryan and Chairman of the Editorial Board,
“Iravunk” newspaper, Hayk Babukhanyan. He reported that Speaker of
the RA Parliament Artur Baghdasaryan and RA Premier Andranik Margaryan
were informed of the ARMC foundation.
Babukhanyan read the ARMC founders a welcoming message of the managers
of the RIA “Novosty” News Agency, who expressed confidence that the
ARMC’s foundation and activities will contribute to the development
of Armenian-Russian strategic partnership. Executive Director of the
REGNUM News Agency Boris Sorkin expressed his hope for the ARMC’s
effective activities. In his welcoming message he expressed readiness
for all possible support to the ARMC’s initiatives and projects.
The ARMC members discussed a number of issues related to their
status, dissemination of information on the ARMC’s activities,
enlargement of the number of ARMC’s members. The meeting participants
advanced the initiative of holding the First Congress of Armenian
and Russian mass media on the occasion of Year of Russia in Armenia,
as well as an international conference themed “Mass media coverage
of Armenian-Russian relations and problems in the North and South
Caucasus.” The ARMC founder decided to specify their proposals and
ways of putting them into practice until the ARMC’s next meeting in
Yerevan on July 6. P.T. -0–