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Baku / 20.11.20 / Turan: The 17th annual media conference on the South Caucasus on the topic “Freedom of the media and obtaining information for the stability of society: problems and prospects” was held, organized by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the two-day conference on November 18-19 was held online.
The forum consisted of two parts.
At the first plenary session, the issues of media freedom and access to information in a pandemic were discussed.
The second part was devoted to issues of freedom of expression and the state of media freedom in the region over the past year.
The conference was attended by representatives of the media community, experts, human rights defenders from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia, as well as international experts.
Representatives of the three countries spoke about the problems and pressures faced by journalists in the context of the pandemic.
They put forward proposals by representatives of official structures. -16D-
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