Eurasian Media Forum

The Eurasian Media Forum is the most prominent international media initiative in Eurasia aimed at defining the strategic role of Eurasia in world affairs, exploring a new approach to international relations, promoting equality of access to reliable public information throughout the area and encouraging the highest standards of journalism.

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Dear colleagues! The Eurasian Media Forum Organising Committee announces that its 9th international media conference will be held between 27th and 28th April 2010 in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan. This unique annual event will examine the key issues facing Eurasia and its media these days and will bring together the world's leading media players, political figures, academics and other experts from East and West for professional dialogue, business contacts and social interaction. The 2010 agenda will tackle a variety of global and regional challenges including Kazakhstan’s OSCE chairmanship, specifics of Iran’s political culture, its future and role in the development of the Middle East; media laws and media freedom concerns; epidemics and pandemic of fear spread by media; development of social networks and issues of responsible journalism; ethics and political image, and others. Please refer to the draft Conference agenda here for more details. We invite you for active participation in the upcoming event, and welcome suggestions on possible speakers, which can be sent to aygerim_a@eamedia.org Thank you in advance for cooperation and look forward to meeting you in Almaty. Best regards, EAMF Organizing Committee

News 27.04 Speech by Chair of the Eurasian Media Forum Organizing Committee Dariga Nazarbayeva Dear colleagues, dear guests and friends, We have thought a lot and decided as follows: the global crisis is definitely a colossal event, but even that cannot preclude… spring from coming. So according to the calendar, these are the last days of April, which means that it is time for me to tell you for the eighth time now: welcome to Almaty where no matter what, lilac is blossoming and … the Eurasian Media Forum is about to start off! Parting last April, the attendees and the guests of our Forum could not even imagine what challenges the world would have to face in the near future. The Eighth Eurasian Media Forum is starting off in hard times. The global economy is experiencing the biggest downturn of the past decades, and globalisation – whose fruits we were so proud of not long ago – has resulted in the crisis taking the form of a global one affecting a number of the largest economies. 27.04 Remarks by Secretary of State Kanat Saudabayev at the opening of the Eighth Eurasian Media Forum Almaty, April 23, 2009 Dear participants and guests of the Eurasian Media Forum! Ladies and gentlemen! I am glad to welcome you during these spring days to our wonderful southern capital of Almaty where we got together to objectively and competently discuss the most pressing problems of our fast changing world. In eight years, the Eurasian Media Forum has gained wide international acclaim. More than 500 delegates from 60 countries have taken part in it. The subjects for past forums were important problems such as separatism, unrecognized states, the rights of journalists, terrorism, regional security, real and virtual politics. Yet today, the focus of attention is, quite naturally, the global economic crisis. 27.04 Media responsibility for global economic crisis? The media need to be tougher in analysing and explaining global issues such as the current world economic and financial crisis. That was the broad conclusion of the first two panel discussions at the 8th annual Eurasian Media Forum held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on April 23-24, 2009.	Tribune

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