The participants in the 41st conference of the General Assembly of the Federation of the Arab News Agencies (FANA) expressed thanks to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for his patronage of the conference. They also expressed thanks to Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja, Minister of Culture and Information and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), for opening activities of the conference. They also thanked Abdullah bin Fahd Al-Hussain, President of the Federation of the Arab News Agencies (FANA) and President of the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), for the warm hospitality. The participants also thanked Ahmed Saad Al-Buainain, Director General of the Qatar News Agency (QNA), who is also chairman of the recent session, on his efforts during his chairmanship of FANA. This came in a conclusion of the conference's activities under the chairmanship of Abdullah bin Fahd Al-Hussain, President of the Federation of the Arab News Agencies (FANA) and President of the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The conference issued a number of recommendations, including election of Abdullah bin Fahd Al-Hussain, President of the Federation of the Arab News Agencies (FANA) and President of the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), as the FANA president for two coming years. The conference also recommended to allocate a particular logo each year for discussion in its session as a main topic where the Arab news agencies are to bring working papers on the implications of the logo in order to be discussed and issued decisions aiming to develop the relevant agencies. It decided to hold 42nd-43rd conferences in the Kingdom of Morocco and Kuwait respectively, during the last quarter of 2014-2015. --More 16:50 LOCAL TIME 13:50 GMT تغريد
