01. 05. 2015

First meeting of Serbian, Albanian journalist associations

1.5.2015 (Tanjug) - Representatives of the Association of Professional Journalists of Kosovo and Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) in Kosovo announced in Pristina that a memorandum of cooperation between the two associations should be signed.

PRISTINA - Representatives of the Association of Professional Journalists of Kosovo and Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) in Kosovo announced in Pristina that a memorandum of cooperation between the two associations should be signed.

Representatives of the Serbian and ethnic Albanian journalist associations gathered for the first time at a round table in Pristina to discuss the key problems of media in Kosovo, UNS released.

The meeting was held on the occasion on May 3, World Press Freedom Day.

The participants agreed that the latest reports by the Freedom House and the United Nations Development Programme on violation of press freedom are worrying and added that conditions for the media have deteriorated sharply in 2014.

The meeting also resulted in a conclusion that Kosovo and international institutions should be urged to monthly disclose information on progress made in investigations into the cases of killed and missing journalists, as well as attackers of journalists, regardless of nationality and gender.