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Statement
on proposed All Stakeholders Media Conference
Media
Alliance of Zimbabwe & Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe
April
22, 2009
After
reviewing the programme
for the proposed Government of Zimbabwe All-Stakeholders Media Conference,
scheduled for May 6-8 2009 at the Troutbeck Inn in Nyanga, we regard
the outlined agenda and topics for discussion as fatally compromised
and anathema to media freedom and the principles of the Global
Political Agreement.
It
is our considered view that the agenda and most of the proposed
presenters/facilitators have been, or are, hostile to media freedom
and the free flow of information within Zimbabwean society. We do
not see how a meeting of this nature can possibly resolve the problems
that currently restrict all media practice in Zimbabwe.
In
particular we do not see how such a conference, with its proposed
agenda, can possibly resolve issues of democratic media-law reform.
Further, we are of the view that the agenda outlined is a radical
departure from government's initial attempt to stage an all
stakeholders' media conference due to have been held on March
28-29, 2009 at the Meikles Hotel in Harare.
However,
we remain committed to engaging government in crafting a credible
agenda for genuine democratic media-law reform.
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