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From: Elina Karakulova (ekarakulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 13:18:56 EDT
UZBEK PRESIDENT PROPOSES CENTRAL ASIAN INFORMATION INTEGRATION
Islam Karimov has proposed what he calls the "information integration" of the member states of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization (CACO) (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 7 July 2003), uzreport.com reported on 7 July. He told journalists that he raised the issue at the CACO meeting on 5 July, explaining that the Central Asian states lack information about one another. Karimov said that the CACO presidents agreed to organize the broadcasting of television programs about each other's countries, starting with two hours of such programming each week. Moreover, the CACO states are planning to launch a communications satellite that would serve the Central Asian region. Karimov was pointing out a problem that was quite noticeable in the Central Asian media in the early years of independence, but which has improved considerably with the development of independent media, at least in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. BB
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