(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) By KUNA Team KUWAIT, Dec 1 (KUNA) -- The Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA) will hold its 46th annual conference in Kuwait on Sunday, and discussions for the next two days will focus on regional and international developments along with other topics in the fields of culture, economics, and tourism. The heads of FANA during the 45th Conference in Jordan endorsed Kuwait in holding the 46th Conference and recommended the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director-General of KUNA Sheikh Mubarak Al-Duaij Al-Sabah as the Chairman of FANA for a second consecutive term in the framework of the new extended two-year term policy.
The 46th Conference is being held under new recent developments in the region, which calls for an opportunity for open dialogue and strengthening of relations between Arab News Agencies. The meetings of the General Assembly of FANA will take place on the course of two days with events scheduled to cover many topics including the activities of the Presidency and Secretariat during the last session and the issues female journalists' face and ways of solving them. Promoting a workshop to better the editor's skills in the economic sector is on the agenda in addition to another workshop to build and develop media content through social media.
The Federation will also review the results and proposals of last year's regional and international conferences that FANA attended and the invitation to participate in a media conference in the Cuban capital Havana in 2019.
In addition there will be a number of discussions revolving around the economy, culture, and tourism along with women's services reports and topics related to technical affairs to develop the website of FANA to intensify the volume of news exchange between agencies.
It is also possible that ideas proposed by the General Secretariat regarding a newsletter for kids to be published in the form of reports in FANA will be brought up.
FANA commenced operations in January of 1975 within the framework of the League of Arab States (LAS) in Beirut with the goal to create a professional connection between News agencies to exchange their experiences and hold specialized conferences for the 18 News agency members. (end) aq.ns.sad
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