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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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The 8th Eurasian Media Forum held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on April 23-24, 2009, is a unique annual East-West conference. It brings together politicians, business leaders, academics and journalists from around the world, many from Russia and the CIS countries, to discuss topical issues on the global news schedule. The agenda this year includes speakers and panel discussions on the most topical global news issues, including the global economic crisis, US President Barack Obama’s impact on East-West relations and media coverage of regional conflicts. Learn more about the Eurasian Media Forum 2009 agenda

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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