Iran Urges UN Efforts to Strengthen Members' Media Capacity
Iran's Deputy Permanent Envoy to the United Nations Eshaq Ale-Habib called on the UN to increase supports for the media in the developing countries and assist such nations in developing their media capacity.
Addressing the 32nd session of the UN Committee on Information on Tuesday, Ale-Habib explicitly criticized the world powers' monopoly over media, and stressed the UN's crucial role in strengthening the countries' national potentials to create independent media.
He further described power of the media in the contemporary era and also progresses made in this regard as unprecedented, and said, "Now the media not only are a tool of information exchange but have also been transformed into an instrument to advance the policies of the power circles and special cultures against the other nations."
Ale-Habib also slammed certain states' wrongdoings in the realm of the media, and said such states misuse the media to pursue and expand their political and economic hegemony and materialize their aggressive and interfering policies by forging the realities, influencing peoples' minds negatively and obliging them to support big lies under the pretext of democracy and freedom of press.
He underlined that freedom of the press should not be allowed to cause pain and insult to others, and stressed that certain restrictions should be imposed by national and international rules to highlight the redlines of such freedom.
The Iranian diplomat called for the UN's further help to the reflection of the horrible conditions of the Palestinian nation, and urged the world body to also show more support for Persian-language media products.
Iran is currently the deputy of the Committee and a member of its presiding board.
Source: farsnews.com
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