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CIS Information Council supports BelTA and Kazinform’s idea on Victory Day media project

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MOSCOW, 16 September (BelTA) - The CIS Council of Heads of State News Agencies and CIS Secretary General Sergei Lebedev supported the proposal by Belarus and Kazakhstan to create a joint media project for the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The 32nd meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State News Agencies (CIS Information Council) was attended by the heads of state news agencies of the CIS countries, including BelTA Director General Irina Akulovich, BelTA has learned.

One of the central topics of the meeting was the preparations for the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The initiative to create a joint media project for this significant date was made by the BelTA and Kazinform news agencies. As Irina Akulovich noted, the project will tell about the contribution of every CIS country to the Great Victory.

It is planned that the project will have a common design, and each of the CIS countries will fill it with photographs and information. The Russian agency TASS will coordinate the project and develop its signature features. It is assumed that this project will be accessible from the homepages of websites in the CIS.

The heads of the news agencies exchanged experience in the use of modern media technologies and explored the prospects for developing cooperation in terms of journalistic exchanges and professional development. The council discussed the international projects of state news agencies and highlighted the importance of developing cultural and humanitarian cooperation within the CIS, programs and projects to promote ties in culture, science, youth exchanges, tourism and sport.

The CIS Information Council was established in 1995. The council is headed by Director General of the Russian agency TASS Andrei Kondrashov. The mission of the CIS Information Council is to ensure interaction and cooperation of the CIS countries in media scape, to create favorable conditions for the unhindered dissemination of information and effective exchange of professional experience, and to strengthen media partnership.

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