Sultanate of Oman wins the position of “Vice President of the Executive Office of the Asian and Pacific journalists”

Muscat – Ashraf AboArafe

The first day of the  IFJ (International Federation of Journalists).. “Congress 31” began by publicizing the election of the Executive Bureau of the Asian and Pacific to told reporters, and composed of representatives of journalists’ unions in Asia and the Pacific.

The Sultanate represented by the Omani Journalists Association got as vice president by acclamation, which nominated him Salim bin Hamad Jahwari won the presidential seat, while the Executive Office of the Asian and Pacific journalists from Sabina @NGED Journalists’ Association of India.

In a statement expressed Sabina @NGED winning the post of Chairman of the Executive Bureau, the Asian Union and the Pacific, told reporters that was celebrated in the day; That the establishment of the Asian Federation of Journalists is the starting point will increase and intensify the efforts of the Union, and we will overcome all the difficulties that lie ahead.

While Salim bin Hamad said Jahwari This achievement of the Sultanate of Oman represented by the Association of journalists Oman, obtaining the first gains in the meetings of the General Conference of the International Federation of Journalists, to win the post of vice president in the AFC and the Pacific, told reporters, a very important step to be within Alloseweh family and be with our brothers and friends, and we will work during the next phase I and my colleague Sabina in order @NGED that there will be a different situation for journalists in Asia.

He added; That the next phase we will have an organized program of work and there will be a team works for rehabilitation, training and press freedoms and deepen these freedoms and professional, and attention Balnfairs in addition to linking the international community in the continent of Asia with the International Federation of Journalists better, as you know that the AFC Pacific current Pacific is another Union officially joined the international Federation of journalists, having had a regulatory and supervisory executive office in Australia.

Salim pointed out loud; That this union came in response to the Omani proposal made by the Sultanate in Tunisia 2019 AD Conference, has been adopted and the blessing of the International Federation of Journalists, the response came quickly, so the importance of the Asian continent, which is one of the largest continents in the world, and the 48 union, a most trade unions in the continent, which represents a major global weight.

The baritone; The importance of the Union to deliver the Asian press voice in the International Federation of Journalists, as well as the United Nations, noting that this step is an important reflection of the Sultanate.