The Council of Arab Information Ministers started its 39th session here today . The Minister of Culture and Information Iyad bin Amin Madani headed the delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the meeting. Addressing the session, the minister emphasized the importance of modernizing and developing an Arab information movement plan abroad. He noted the speech of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz recently addressed to Arab Gulf Information Union which embodied the major fundamentals of information action that should be characterized by credibility and affiliation to its culture and heritage. The information movement should express the unity of the homeland and the nation facing those who want its suspicion and dissention. Minister Madani called on Arab information ministers and officials to attend Information Minister Conference of Organization of Islamic Conference due to be held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on September 13-14. He expressed the Kingdom's pleasure over hosting a task force concerned with following up the role of Arab information in combating the phenomenon of terrorism, hoping that cooperation will continue and be strengthened with Arab Interior Ministerial Council in the field of confronting terrorism so that the confrontation includes security and intellectual dimensions. The minister of culture and information also expressed the Kingdom's pleasure over hosting a task force concerning with crystallization of criteria of satellite television and broadcasting transmission and electronic information in the Arab region.
