Urgent.. The Union of Arab Journalists thanks President Sisi for his support and allocating a new headquarters in Cairo
The Union of Arab Journalists expressed its great gratitude and thanks to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and the Egyptian government for the great and continuous support that they continue to provide to the Union, and the latest form of this support was the allocation of a new headquarters for the Union in Cairo befitting the General Union of Arab Journalists, and for their continued keenness to organize the sixtieth anniversary celebration. To establish the union, which will soon be organized in Cairo.
This came during the meeting of the permanent office of the General Union of Arab Journalists, and its regular periodic meeting today. Tuesday in Dubai, the Emirates, headed by Muayyad Al-Lami, President of the Federation, and in the presence of the Federation’s honorary president, Diaa Rashwan, and members of the General Secretariat and the Permanent Office. The Chairman of the Freedoms Committee, Abdul Wahab Al-Zaghailat, and the Federation’s Advisor, Al-Hashimi Nawira, also participated in the meeting. The meeting touched on organizational and political issues, according to the Federation’s statement.
The statement added that members of the General Secretariat and the permanent office of the Union took advantage of the opportunity of the meeting, which came at the invitation of the Emirates Journalists Association, to express Their great appreciation and gratitude to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, and to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, for the care and attention they received during their stay in Dubai. They also expressed their sincere thanks and gratitude to colleagues. In the Emirates Journalists Association for their generous hospitality and warm reception, joining them in the association’s celebrations of the silver jubilee, which chronicles a professional path full of achievements made by men and women. The media in this brotherly country, and it is an opportunity to look at the pioneering and great roles through which the Emirati media, and the men and women of this media, have contributed to a country that is paving the path of growth and progress with success and stability under the rational and visionary political leadership of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zaidan, President of the State, and through the members of the secretariat. The public expressed their firm conviction that the Emirati media will continue the path of giving with all resolve and determination.
The Union – in its statement – expressed its condemnation of the Israeli aggression. The barbaric attack on Gaza deplores the negligent positions of many international human rights organizations that dealt with the aggression selectively, and the nature of the professional performance of many Western media outlets that volunteered to play the role of obfuscation, falsification of facts, fabrication of events, and dissemination of false news, and despite all international efforts that embodied a global consensus on the necessity An immediate cessation of the aggression against Gaza, which had a heavy cost with the martyrdom of more than 46 thousand male and female martyrs, the majority of whom were children and women. And the injury of more than one hundred thousand wounded and wounded, and tens of thousands of missing persons, and the forced displacement of millions of civilians, and the destruction of all aspects of life in Gaza and in many parts of Lebanon. The brutal Israeli occupation continued to commit its crimes with complete reassurance and confidence after providing it with all political and military guarantees. Diplomacy and media on the part of Western powers, in particular, revealed their true will to subjugate international laws, international legitimacy, and human rights to serve their strategic and economic interests. And politics.
In return, the members of the Permanent Bureau expressed their pride in their fellow Palestinian journalists, male and female, and pay homage to the souls of the heroic martyrs, including those who paid a heavy price in order to expose the brutal aggression and who watered the pure land of Palestine with their blood, and their colleagues. Lebanese journalists, male and female, who were targeted by the hands of Israeli terrorism.
The Union denounces the Israeli aggression that It caused more than 40 percent of the Palestinian journalists in Gaza to be martyred or injured, which is the most heinous crime in the history of international journalism. alongside their colleagues in Palestine and Lebanon, and supporting the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate in confronting the barbaric aggression, and directing it to file complaints with the International Criminal Court against the criminals of the barbaric aggression against Palestinian journalists. The Union holds international professional organizations and international human rights and legal organizations responsible for the failure to protect Palestinian and Lebanese journalists and in confronting the crimes committed against the Palestinian people, and calls for their immediate cessation without conditions or restrictions. The Permanent Bureau of the General Union of Arab Journalists also calls on all Arab journalistic professional organizations and Arab journalists to affirm the Union’s firm position in boycotting professional normalization with the Israeli enemy.
In the context of the meeting, the members of the Permanent Bureau of the Union unanimously agreed to approve the Centre’s request. The Qatari journalist joined the Union to become a full member of the Union in accordance with the basic law.
Members of the Permanent Bureau also approved the two administrative reports submitted by colleague Khaled Miri, Secretary-General of the Union, and the financial report submitted by the colleague. Hatem Zakaria, Financial Secretary of the Federation. The Union discussed the work report of the Freedoms Committee, and it was decided to invite all Arab press unions and organizations on February 10, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Union, to organize a press conference at ten in the morning, with work in the editorial halls suspended for a specific period, and to call for adding the accusation of targeting the category of journalists to the work of the International Criminal Court, in implementation of the principle. No impunity.
And calling on the Arab and international media to boycott the statements of Israeli officials for a specific period and distribute a list of names and photos of the martyrs. The Palestinians, with an introduction in all languages, will be distributed to all international media outlets, and call on the United Nations to organize a solidarity visit from the Arab and International Federations for fellow journalists in Gaza and the West Bank.
