International media forum to open in Minsk Wed.

MINSK, June 22 (Itar-Tass) - The VI Belarus international media forum,
which opens here on Wednesday, has drawn journalists and media experts
from 21 countires. The forum will be held under the motto "Partnership for
Future: Patriotism, Spirituality, and Unity"
The forum is held by the Belarusian Ministry of Information and the
Belarusian Union of Journalists under the auspices of the Interstate
Humanitarian Cooperation Foundation of the member-countries of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Permanent Committee of the
the Union State of Belarus and Russia (USBR), the CIS Executive Committee,
the Belarusian Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Culture, Defence, and a
number of other organizations.
An official at the Belarusian Information Ministry said the forum
would continue for four days. A plenary session and a Summer School of
Journalists are expected to be the most vivid events of the forum.
Vladimir Garkun, First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Commitee --
Executive Secretary of the CIS, Pavel Borodin, State Secretary of the
USBR, and Oleg Proleskovsky, Belarusian Minister of Information, are
expected to address those present at the plenary session which is to be
held on June 24.
The session will also include thematic discussions on such subjects as
"The Republic of Belarus in the Context of Contemporary Geopolitical
Processes", "Civilized Unity as Basis for Sovereign Development of CIS
Countries", and "New Role of the Media in the Fashioning of Political
Realities".
The programme of the Summer School of Journalists will include master
classes, lectures, and discussions to be held ny prominent scientists and
journalists from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Israel, Poland, and Russia.
Participants in the media forum are also to tour a number of
industrial and agricultural enterprises of the republic, the Line of
Stalin historico-cultural complex, the castle compound Mir (peace), and
the Nesvizh palace-and-park ensemble.