Arab Journalist Union meet in Cairo

Cairo witnesses now the meeting of the general trusteeship of the Arab Journalists Union, under the chairmanship of Egypt's Ibrahim Nafae, the head of the union, and with the participation of the general trusteeship's members, whose arrival was completed yesterday.

Salah El-Din Hafez, the secretary general of the union, said the general trusteeship will discuss the subjects which are drafted on the agenda of the union's permanent bureau, which include the liberty of publishing newspapers, reporter's rights, and crimes related to publishing.

Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid will witness the celebration which will be held by the journalists union tonight to open the new permanent headquarters of the union in downtown Cairo, which President Mubarak gave as a present to the Arab reporters and which was set up and prepared to meet the demands of the coming phase of starting the union's process in the coming century.

The inauguration of Internet service and electronic mail in the permanent headquarters will take place during the celebration, which statesmen, Arab ambassadors, Arab and Egyptian newspapers and news agencies' chief editors, and members of the permanent bureau and the general trusteeship of the union will witness.