Riachy: I will protect freedoms, rights of journalists

NNA - The newly appointed Minister of Information, Melhem Riachy, said in an interview with the OTV channel that he would work on "protecting freedoms and the rights of journalists." The minister advocated the idea of establishing a union "that includes all journalists, thus combines between the Information Ministry and the Orders of editors and press." "I will work, during this government's short age, on setting up the foundations for the minister to whom I will be handing over this portfolio. Our goal is to promote the media sector and have real media figures," he said, stressing "the importance that the ministry be that of journalists not of Information."