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Editors to discuss Asia-Europe Digital Connectivity
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The 8th ASEF Editors’ Roundtable Meeting, one of the side events of the ASEM Summit, was the focus of the June 30 ‘ASEM Information Hour’ media briefing.
The briefing was held by representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mongolian Union of Journalists, which reported that 30 influential media companies’ editors from 20 ASEM member countries will take part in the roundtable meeting. “Adrian Lloyd Van-Klaveren, Head of BBC World 2020, Joao Palmeir, President of the Portuguese Press Association, Gie Goris, Editor-in-Chief of the Belgian Mondiaal News, Yury Kruchkin, Editor-in-Chief of the Russian magazine ‘Mongolia Today’, Wu Ting, Managing Director of the Chinese ‘The paper.cn’, as well as editors-in-chief, senior journalists and overseas special correspondents from Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Ireland, Poland, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, and India.
The roundtable is to be held on July 7 – July 8, organized with the support of the Government of Mongolia, non-governmental organizations, the Asia-Europe Foundation, and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. This year’s roundtable is expected to be on the same level of participation as in the previous roundtable, according to its organizers, who have expressed the hope that it would help bring the two continents closer together, and in particular, help consolidate cooperation among the journalists of the two regions, and it would also make an important contribution to international promotion of Mongolia, reports asem11.mn.
