A two-day workshop started on 12 December in Dushanbe. The training covers the issues of access to official information and incentives for efficient cooperation between authorities and journalists

Organizers of the workshop are the OSCE Center in Tajikistan and the Tajik President’s Office.

“Political will of officials, provision of access to information, professionalism and sense of responsibility of the media stimulate the development of the society.” — said Vladimir Pryakhin, head of the OSCE Center in Dushanbe.
“The State guarantees equal rights on access to and dissemination of information.” – noted Saidmurod Fattoyev, State Advisor to the President on Social Development and Public Relations.

More than 30 participants took part in the workshop among whom there were journalists and representatives of the government press services. International and local experts conducted training sessions on legal and ethical principles of cooperation between the authorities and the media, and the global principles of access to information. The participants also discussed the main problems of communication between the government representatives and journalists.

In 2005, the OSCE Center in Dushanbe launched several training programs targeted to strengthening of relations between the State bodies and journalists.

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