BRATISLAVA, August 28, (WEBNOVINY) – Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova and Speaker of Parliament Richard Sulik will attend the Bratislava part of the World Congress of the International Press Institute (IPI). The congress will be taking place in Vienna from September 11 to 13 and on its last day, on September 14, its participants, about three hundred media representatives from all over the world, will move to the Slovak capital of Bratislava. The event will also remember the sixtieth anniversary of IPI as an organization of leading representatives and personalities of the media from all over the world whose common aim is protection and safeguarding free access of the public to quality information through the media.
As the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of IPI Slovensko Pavol Mudry told SITA news agency, Prime Minister Radicova will be the first Slovak prime minister to attend an IPI World Congress, which, this year, will be held jointly in Vienna, Austria, and for the first time in Bratislava, Slovakia. Besides delivering her address, she will also take questions from the audience, which will comprise editors, media executives, leading journalists and publishers from around the world, among them former Slovak foreign minister Miroslav Lajcak, Sergej Danilov, an investigative journalist with Slovakia’s Radio Expres, Alexandra Foderl-Schmid, editor-in-chief of Austrian daily Der Standard, Gabor Miklosi, a reporter for Index.hu, Budapest, or Jim Clancy, an anchor for CNN International.
The congress will discuss some current topics and problems of the media from the global and local perspective. Some of the topics include press freedom, new technologies in the media and their impact on the journalistic profession, as well as the situation of the media in Haiti.
SITA