The Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA) will discuss in its First Annual Meeting here on Wednesday a number of issues including the definition of principles; views and ideas put forth in the statement of World Conference on Dialogue held in Madrid in the mid of July 2008, which was opened by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and the possibility of holding a special seminar for news editors to develop the main lines of the definition principles that have emerged in that conference. The Secretary General of the FANA, Dr. Fareed Ayar said the Federation would look at a range of activities carried out by the Secretariat since the last Conference of the FANA held in Amman last November, including the file on cooperation between Arab and European, Asian and other international news agencies as well as the revitalization of the Federation's works through financial support as well as support the Secretariat's headquarters in Beirut with the necessary requirements to be able to play its role.
