TIRANA, October 13/ATA/ – Hina on Wednesday took over the year-long chairmanship of the Alliance of Mediterranean News Agencies (AMAN) at a conference in Dubrovnik, which also adopted a declaration obliging the agencies to increase the production of content on sustainability and a joint fight against disinformation.
This week’s AMAN conference in Dubrovnik focused on sustainable development.
Hina and its director Branka-Gabriela Vojvodić took over AMAN’s chairmanship from the Algerian APS news agency and its director Samir Gaid, while George Penintaex of Cyprus was reappointed AMAN’s secretary general for another three years.
The adopted declaration obliges AMAN news agencies to increase reporting on sustainable development, with emphasis on the Mediterranean.
The work of this 30th General Assembly has also seen the adoption of the “Dubrovnik Declaration” at the end of the conference organized on Tuesday on the sidelines of this Assembly, by the Croatian News Agency (Hina), on sustainable development in the Mediterranean and was chaired by Nina Obuljen Korzinek, Croatian Minister of Culture and Media.
This declaration contains “the commitment of the Mediterranean news agencies to assume full responsibility for their actions in defending and promoting sustainable development worldwide, especially in the Mediterranean region.
The agencies recognize, through this declaration, “the crucial importance of the role of the media in the process of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) agenda and express their commitment to fulfill their social role for which they are fully responsible at national and local levels”.
The Dubrovnik Declaration recognizes the extent of the responsibility of news agencies in their social role of informing, objectively and impartially, and the need for them to be open to cross-sector partnerships in order to best fulfill their professional and moral mission and thus contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the ESG Agenda, in the private and public sectors, as well as in civil society.
The agencies are committed to coordinating their efforts in their own national environments to initiate dialogue and foster such partnerships and networks, knowing that only coordinated efforts can bring about the change needed to ensure a safer future for generations to come.
