Khalaf al-Jarad on the role of media in confronting terrorism
Meetings of the Arab work team in charge of studying the issue of media role in confronting terrorism were concluded recently at the headquarters of the Arab League general secretariat in Cairo.
The Syrian delegation to the meetings was led by the director general and chief editor of the Syrian Tishreen daily. Experts from the ministries of information in several Arab states and the Arab League took part in the events of the meetings.
In a statement to ArabicNews.com, Khalaf al-Jarad said that the Syrian paper to the meeting called for work to support and enhance common Arab cooperation in the political, diplomatic and internal and external media areas as well as to make every possible effort to join the world's information technology process as well as to draw clear media plans and programs fit to this end.
Al-Jarad also stressed in his presentation the importance of providing human and material resources to counter the "Zionist media and limit its negative role in distorting the image of Arabs and the role played by them on the international scene." Al-Jarad warned against the practices of the Israeli occupation army in the occupied Palestinian territories and their inhuman practices in killing women, children and the elderly.
He stressed that implementing what he had stated in the presentation is linked to correcting the image of Arabs and Muslims, adding that this can be a reality by maintaining contacts and dialogue with the world built on tolerance and understanding, rejecting terrorism and deploring it and honor differences in doctrines and the opinion. Al-Jarad also stressed that a dialogue built on commitment to human rights issues approved by international norms and charters will be a helping hand to improve reveal the true face of Arabs.
In three-day celebrations, the meetings discussed several work papers submitted by several Arab states and the council of the Arab ministers of the interior on the role of the Arab media in challenging terrorism.
The meetings concluded recommendations to be submitted to the next meeting of the permanent committee on Arab media to be debated by its turn to the council of the Arab ministers of information in its next meeting on June 8 and 9 in Cairo.
Worthy mentioning, the meetings of the experts team included Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar as well as the Arab League.
