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Iraqi journalists critical of the mechanism involved in granting features coverage of the summit of Baghdad
Posted 26/03/2012 12:55 PM
BAGHDAD - Babinaoz (Reuters) - criticized by a number of Iraqi journalists Monday, the mechanism adopted by the media committee for the Arab summit in grants (IDs) to participate in the coverage of the summit to be held next Thursday. A number of journalists who gathered at the entrance to Hotel Ishtar Sheraton in central Baghdad, told the Kurdish News (Rn) "There is no professional in dealing with Iraqi journalists, they asked our media support for the summit, but we say by any means is done deportation, marginalization and exclusion?". The journalists that "the idea of giving us the identities to allow us to media coverage is exceeded on the freedom of the press and our rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the law, we hold the identities of affiliation of the union of journalists and supposed to be involved in the coverage of the summit without the need to authorize the Commission media government. " Others said they looked tired because of the long hours of waiting, "How is it possible to give only 162 media Iraqi identities of the post in the coverage of the Arab summit in Baghdad and the State information says that there are more than a thousand Arab media will cover the event, are they better than us? ". Despite the hours of waiting at the entrance to Hotel Ishtar Sheraton did not attend any representative of the Preparatory Committee to meet with journalists, whose number exceeded 100 people representing various media print and audio-visual and the statement of the reasons for the denial of participation. told the supervisors to protect the Hotel Ishtar Sheraton journalists that the lists of additional reporters are covered by media coverage may be announced this evening, as she was the private media summit in Baghdad, headed by the Government Spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh has invited all local media and interested Arab coverage of the summit to send their data on its Web site. While waiting media personnel giving them permission to participate in the coverage of acts of Baghdad summit, held in Baghdad tomorrow morning the Arab Ministerial Meeting (Economics and Trade), which held a meeting of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs next Wednesday, one day before the summit of Baghdad. experiencing Baghdad closure of several main streets as part of security measures taken by the security forces to secure Baghdad summit.
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