APPENDIX III
Address by Mr. Nacer Mehal
To the 17th General
Assembly of
Dear
colleagues
Ladies
and Gentlemen
Let me
first, as the current President of
Dear
colleagues,
Since the
holding of the 16th session of our General Assembly in Algiers in June 2007,
the second in Algiers in less than 5 years, I have been appointed president of
the Alliance and I would like to thank you for the trust you placed in me,
along with all my colleagues, members of the Follow-up Committee, for their
precious help and efforts to fulfill successfully the mission assigned to us.
With
regard to the activities of our Alliance held last year, I would like to recall
that the meeting of the Follow-up Committee took place on April 1st, 2008 in
Lisbon in the presence of all the members and in response to the kind
invitation of our friend and colleague Barroso,
to whom I reiterate my sincere acknowledgments for having contributed, at all
the levels, to the holding of this meeting, following which a report has been
given to all the member agencies of
To be
brief, I just want to broach the contests of the best article and the best
photo, of which the results will be announced by Secretary General, Mr
Penintaex, to voice our satisfaction with the increasing number of the
participants compared to last year and I reiterate my wish to see all the
member agencies take part in these initiatives.
The
Follow-up Committee has made proposals to be submitted to the kind attention of
the delegates here present in this session calling them to consider and decide
on some of them in an effort to improve the functioning of our organisation.
Furthermore,
some delegates have expressed during the previous Assembly their wish to see
training sessions double for the different staff of the
In this
regard, the Follow-up Committee has been in charge of prospecting all the
opportunities in this area. To this end, I started consultations with the
representative of the European Union in
However,
we addressed the representative of the European Union in
In terms
of training, the APS presidency has been marked by the organization in
This
training comprised two sections, one in English and the other in French with a
view to involving the maximum of journalists. It took place from 5 to 7 May
2008 with the participation of seven agencies.
These two
training sessions have been partially financed by the
Furthermore,
we have been invited to take part in the Organization of Asian News Agencies
(OANA)’s General Assembly held in
As for
the
But, I
would like to make a candid observation that in absence of a generation of
ideas and more fruitful activism from the member agencies, our
In
Finally,
I reiterate my thanks to Mr. Barroso and his assistants as well as to the
members of the Follow-up Committee for their generous contribution. I am
delighted to hand over
Thank you
for your attention.
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