Pakistan signed here a MoU for launching the Media Summit Initiative of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to strengthen media cooperation among the member States
Beijing, (Pakistan Point News - 6th Jun, 2018) : Pakistan signed here a MoU for launching the Media Summit Initiative of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to strengthen media cooperation among the member States. The signing ceremony was held on the occasion of Ist Media Summit of the SCO's member States. The summit of the SCO, was proposed by President Xi Jinping a year ago. In his congratulatory message, he called upon the media outlets to promote the Shanghai spirit and serve as the pioneer for practical cooperation within the SCO's framework.
Xi said media outlets should also serve as the communicator for people's friendship. China stands firm in supporting the development of the SCO, and is willing to make steps forward hand-in-hand with all parties to develop a more closely related regional community with a shared future, and to push forward the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, he added. During the Summit, the Media's representatives of SCO's full member states, observers and dialogue partners pledged to work jointly to promote peace, stability and economic prosperity in the region through news exchange arrangements.
The summit was organized by China Public Diplomacy Association, Beijing Municipal Information Office and Radio Beijing Corporation. Pakistan was represented at the summit by the senior official of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Shafqat Jalil and Pakistan's ambassador to China Masood Khalid, besides some members of Pakistani media. Shafqat Jalil assured the SCO's States that Pakistani media will always be on forefront in promoting the cooperative partnership to achieve their common goals within the organization's framework.
He lauded the China's leadership role in spreading the message of peace, tranquility and win-win cooperative partnership World over. While opening the summit, Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee emphasized that the SCO countries should strengthen unity and coordination and contribute more "SCO wisdom and solutions" for long-term regional stability and prosperity.
Huang asserted that the media outlets should build up the strength for mutual cooperation to build a shared communication network, while promoting the "Shanghai Spirit", SCO Secretary-General Rashid Alimov also spoke on the occasion, highlighting the importance of media's role in promoting the "Shanghai Spirit". He underlined the need of pushing forward cooperation in the media sector to develop a community of shared destiny and to serve the common aspirations of their people. A series of cooperation agreements were signed between governments and media organizations of the SCO on the sidelines of the Media summit, including one between Independent News Pakistan (INP) and Radio Beijing Corporation.
