Sudanese council of ministers approves second information conference

The Council of Minister, chaired by the First Vice - President of the Republic, Lt. Gen. Bakri Hassan Salih, Thursday approved the recommendations of the recent Second National Conference on Information Issues, which were presented at the Cabinet meeting by the Minister of Information, Dr. Ahmed Bilal Osman.
In a press statement, the spokesman of the Council of Ministers, Dr. Omer Mohamed Salih, said that top of the approved recommendations was the enabling of Sudan News Agency (SUNA) to be the major source of news in the country.
He said that the approved recommendations included establishment of a media production and programming town, presenting media services in the English and other languages and motivating merger of the press institutions for increasing competition.
He said that the recommendations approved by the Council of Ministers also include considering the launching of a Sudanese satellite toward promoting the radio and TV transmission and enhancement of the legislations to give more freedom to the national and official media institutions.
Dr. Salih indicated that the approved recommendations included implementation of the decision No. (7) of the Council of Ministers for the year 2012 pertinent to merger between the National Radio and TV Corporations in a single corporation, amendment of the Press and Publication Act toward guaranteeing equilibrium between the freedom and responsibility, approval of a legislation on the right of getting the information, issuing a law that organizes the advertisement for guaranteeing the rights of both the advertisers and consumers, respecting the societal values and reconsidering the constitutional relation between the center and the states regarding the broadcasting and the content.
Dr. Salih said that the Council of Ministers has formed a committee headed by the Assistant of the President of the Republic, Prof. Ibrahim Ghandour, to follow up implementation of the approved recommendation and to submit a report in this regard to the Council of Ministers within a period of three months.