MOSCOW, 16 September (BelTA) – CIS countries need to work out joint measures to counter fascism glorification and history falsification, CIS Secretary General Sergei Lebedev said at the 32nd session of the council of heads of state-run news agencies of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS Information Council) in Moscow on 16 September. The session is attended by heads of CIS state-run news agencies, including BelTA Director General Irina Akulovich, BelTA has learned.
"Nowadays, an important issue on the agenda is working out joint measures to counter fascism glorification and history falsification. Unfortunately, we are facing the unfolding massive political violence from outside against our common historical memory. For this reason, the CIS Heads of Government Council has decided to call 2025 the Year of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the Year of Peace and Unity in the fight against nazism," Sergei Lebedev said.
He stated that the world's rapid evolution and widespread use of high technologies have not only opened up prospects for the economic, social and cultural development of states, but have also posed new threats to information security. "At the CIS summit in October 2023, the heads of our states had a deep discussion on cooperation in the information spcae. At the session of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council held in Minsk on 12 April, the heads of foreign affairs ministries adopted an important document for our news agencies – a statement on enabling safe conditions for professional activities of reporters and on preventing infringements on their rights. This document focuses on forming a uniting positive agenda in the information environment, preventing the spread of news that provoke interethnic and interreligious discord, enabling and securing safe and favorable conditions for reporters and mass media employees," the CIS Secretary General recalled.
"Today's media space is endless. Journalists have a wide range of technical capabilities and ways of obtaining and spreading information. Matters of objectivity, morality and ethics are at the forefront. Nowadays, when the old rules of the media community are being thoroughly revised, meetings like today's play a special role. The meetings contribute to developing new forms of international cooperation of CIS news agencies in order to ensure stability in the CIS," Sergei Lebedev noted.
"Nowadays, an important issue on the agenda is working out joint measures to counter fascism glorification and history falsification. Unfortunately, we are facing the unfolding massive political violence from outside against our common historical memory. For this reason, the CIS Heads of Government Council has decided to call 2025 the Year of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the Year of Peace and Unity in the fight against nazism," Sergei Lebedev said.
He stated that the world's rapid evolution and widespread use of high technologies have not only opened up prospects for the economic, social and cultural development of states, but have also posed new threats to information security. "At the CIS summit in October 2023, the heads of our states had a deep discussion on cooperation in the information spcae. At the session of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council held in Minsk on 12 April, the heads of foreign affairs ministries adopted an important document for our news agencies – a statement on enabling safe conditions for professional activities of reporters and on preventing infringements on their rights. This document focuses on forming a uniting positive agenda in the information environment, preventing the spread of news that provoke interethnic and interreligious discord, enabling and securing safe and favorable conditions for reporters and mass media employees," the CIS Secretary General recalled.
"Today's media space is endless. Journalists have a wide range of technical capabilities and ways of obtaining and spreading information. Matters of objectivity, morality and ethics are at the forefront. Nowadays, when the old rules of the media community are being thoroughly revised, meetings like today's play a special role. The meetings contribute to developing new forms of international cooperation of CIS news agencies in order to ensure stability in the CIS," Sergei Lebedev noted.
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