MOSCOW
Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies' (OANA) 15th General Assembly will be held on 18–21 September 2013 in Moscow.
The meeting will last for three days.
37 news agencies from 31 countries attend the 15th General Board meeting.
In the meeting held in Moscow, the new chairman and secretary general for the organization will be elected. Anadolu Agency chaired OANA for the term 2010-2013.
The last General Board meeting which is held each three years was held in Istanbul in 2010.
OANA current Chairman Kemal Ozturk being at Moscow for OANA meeting reportedly plans to meet Russian PM Dmitriy Medvedev, Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matviyenko and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.
- What is OANA?
The Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) was formed in 1961 on the initiative of UNESCO to secure direct and free exchange of news between the news agencies of a region inhabited by more than one half of the world's population. The Asia-Pacific countries account for 56 percent of world gross product, some 50 percent of its trade turnover, over 60 percent of its maritime and nearly 25 percent of air transport volume. The world's largest financial reserves and science-intensive technologies are concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region. At present OANA brings together 40 news agencies from 33 countries. Two-thirds of information circulated throughout the world are released by OANA members.
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