Press Release
19 December 2011

Participants of the round table “Political correctness in the Tajik mass media”, have discussed the issues of political correctness in Tajikistan and stressed that the political correctness implies an unconditional advantage of the conventional rights and freedoms in the society and in the state versus individual advantages any party.

Studying the experience of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in dispute resolution involving elements of political correctness, we have come to the conclusion that the mass media should become conductors of the rules of correct behavior, implementers of civilized procedures protecting from deviations in attempts to resolve political problems.

Along with that, it was noted that observance of the principles of political correctness should not restrict the freedom of expression. Stressing the importance of legal and ethical impact of political incorrectness in the media, participants of the round table have developed the following recommendations to the media community and the government institutions:

— To continue studying various aspects of political correctness in Tajikistan’s mass media;
— To adopt the international standards of political correctness in daily practice among Tajik media professionals;
— To develop procedures protecting the media from political incorrectness of any public structures;
— To develop a list of “undesirable words” based on the principles of political correctness;
— To restrain from affiliating criminals to any nation, ethnicity, religion, etc;
— To restrain from mentioning nationality in criminal reports in the media.

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