Anti-terror Arab states call for confronting media promoting extremism
Ministers of information of the four anti-terror
Arab states on Tuesday called for confronting all mass media outlets promoting
the extremist thought.
The announcement came in a joint statement issued
during a meeting in Cairo, which brought together the four Arab information
ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain.
During the meeting, the four Arab ministers asserted
the importance of developing strategies and mechanisms regulating the work of
media, with the aim of countering hate speech and extremism, in addition to
revealing to the public the countries that support and finance terrorism, the
statement said.
All media outlets that promote terrorism and
destructive ideas by interviewing terrorist leaders, under the guise of
professionalism and freedom of speech, should be confronted because such acts
contradict the basic ethical principles, the statement added, the statement
noted.
The four Arab ministers expressed their condemnation
of the acts by some media outlets that continue targeting the unity among Arab
states through propagating issues and news to undermine the national unity and
the social fabric of Arab countries, the statement read.
They also urged supporting all media bodies that
encourage the spirit of cooperation and peaceful coexistence in the face of the
wayward ones that spread terrorism through all their reports and media
coverage, the statement underlined.
