Moscow to host World Media Summit

Executives of world’s leading mass media outlets are arriving in Moscow for the World Media Summit, organized by the Russian Itar-TASS News Agency.

The summit opens on Thursday and is entitled Global Media: Challenges of the 21st Century. Over 300 top managers presenting 213 media outlets from 102 countries arrive to discuss pressing problems facing the media society. They include the leaders of such major news agencies, TV and radio channels as Associated Press, BBC, Reuters, NBC, Al Jazeera, Kyodo, Xinhua and MENA. General Director of the Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency (AzerTAc) Aslan Aslanov has also arrived in Moscow to take part at the event.

Leaders of nine international organizations, including UNESCO, as well as a delegation of the European Parliament have been invited. U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-Moon is expected to make a video address to the summit.
 

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