MEDIA OBSERVATION BODY CREATED ON INITIATIVE OF YEREVAN PRESS CLUB

Noyan Tapan
Mar 13 2007

YEREVAN, MARCH 13, NOYAN TAPAN. On the initiative of Yerevan Press
Club, Rules of journalists’ Conduct were adopted and Observation
Body was elected at the March 10 meeting of heads of a number of
media and journalist organizations. As Chairman of Yerevan Press
Club Boris Navasardian reported at the March 13 press conference,
the mission of Observation Body is to discuss application-complaints
relating to violations of Rules of Conduct and to draw the respective
conclusions. He expressed satisfaction that 21 Armenian media, 8
journalist organizations and a group of individual journalists have
joined this initiative. Among these media and journalist organizations
are Union of Journalists of Armenia, A1+, Azg, Aravot dailies,
Arminfo news agency. B. Navasardian said that the Rules of Conduct
have an appendix, Declaration on Principles of Covering Elections and
Referendums. In the words of Astghik Gevorgian, Chairwoman of Union
of Journalists of Armenia, the process of self-regulation and control
will contribute to preservation of journalists’ civilized conduct and
moral characteristic. And in the words of Lilit Simonian, Chairwoman
of Center for Law and Information NGO, the more self-regulated
the journalist field is, the more independent media and individual
journalists are.