Day: June 24, 2023

ABU DHABI, 24th June, 2023 (WAM) — A delegation from the Emirates News Agency (WAM) headed by Director General Mohamed Jalal Al Rayssi visited a number of top German media organisations as part of WAM’s international outreach initiative aimed at strengthening media cooperation on the one hand and promoting the Global Media Congress. During the visit to Bonn and Berlin in Germany, the delegation also attended the Global Media Forum, which was held in Bonn June 19-20. At the extensive interactions the delegation had with leaders of various German media outlets, Al Rayssi extended invitation to several top media figures to take part in the Global Media Congress. All the media honchos the delegation met in Germany appreciated WAM’s inclusion of German among the 19 languages in which the agency now publishes news stories. WAM’s efforts to establish mutually beneficial partnerships with hundreds of media outlets around the world as well as the successful first edition of the Global Media Congress were praised by all the German interlocutors, who expressed keen interest in the event. Al Rayssi explained during the meetings the importance of the Congress as a pioneering platform to not only bring together major media personalities from around the world under one roof, but also to generate in-depth debates and discussions about the current state of the media in terms of both challenges and opportunities. All agreed that extensive cooperation among media organisations is key to ensuring a bright future for the media industry in the face of technological advancements. Among the media organisations the delegation interacted with were the German Press Agency (), DW, Berliner-Zeitung, ZDF, ARD, and Der Spiegel. In addition to German media organisations, the delegation also had wide-ranging discussions with a large number of media persons from different parts of the world attending the Global Media Forum. Khoder Nashar Tariq Al Fahaam/ Hazem Hussein

Source: Emirates News Agency (WAM)

Shura Council condemned and denounced in the strongest terms the racist acts that affected Holy Qur’an by burning and tearing it up by Zionist settlers under the protection of the occupation forces.

The Council indicated, in a statement today, that crime comes as part of a malicious and racist series targeting Islam and Islamic sanctities, and the Zionist lobby in the world stands behind it.

It considered that a blatant provocation to the feelings of millions of Muslims in the world, especially in these blessed days of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah.

The Council called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Al-Azhar Al-Sharif and the United Nations to condemn this crime and the accompanying provocative acts and repeated incursions by herds of Zionist settlers into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to take positions to prevent its recurrence.

In its statement, the Council called on Arab and Islamic peoples to express their anger and rejection of these racist and extremist practices that affect Islamic sanctities from time to time, and to demand the severing of their countries’ relations with the Zionist entity, and to support the Palestinian resistance.

Source: Yemen News Agency

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the Zionist enemy’s continued disregard for religious values by providing protection to a number of extremist Zionist settlers who burned and tampered with copies of the Holy Qur’an.

In a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered this criminal act a flagrant provocation of the feelings of more than a billion and a half Muslims around the world, and comes within the framework of the Zionist enemy’s endeavor to detonate the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.

And the Ministry renewed its calls for the Arab regimes that were normalized with the Zionist enemy to meet the demands of their people to return to the path of righteousness… and said, “Is it after burning copies of the Holy Qur’an and sending them any justification whatever for the continuation of the normalization process?”

The statement called on the Security Council to assume its responsibility in adopting a resolution criminalizing offenses against religions and religious symbols and prosecuting perpetrators of hate crimes based on religion and belief, as this constitutes an explicit threat to international peace and security.

Source: Yemen News Agency

The Saudi Minister of Education Yousef bin Abdullah Al-Benyan, met with the United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Schools, Nick Gibb on the sidelines of the G20 education ministers’ meeting hosted by the Republic of India, it was reported here today.

During the meeting, they discussed the existing cooperation between the two countries in the scientific and educational fields, as well as the most prominent achievements of the Saudi-British Strategic Partnership Council and its future goals.

The two sides reviewed the program of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques for scholarships, citing that the United Kingdom is one of the largest countries hosting the program according to the new strategy launched by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

They also discussed the scholarship program offered by Saudi Arabia’s government to British students to study in Saudi universities.

The meeting covered the development witnessed by education in Saudi Arabia, the advancement of Saudi universities in international rankings, and scientific research and publishing, opportunities for joint cooperation in the field of professional development for teachers, the exchange of experiences in the fields of early childhood education, Saudi Arabia’s welcoming British investors in the field of education, and the opening of distinguished British schools in various regions of Saudi Arabia.

Source: Saudi Press Agency