AlHijjah 26, 1432, Nov 22, 2011, SPA -- The 39th Meeting of the Federation of Arab News Agency (FANA) General Assembly resumed activities today. During its morning session, the participants renewed the term of Dr. Farid Ayar as Secretary General of FANA for the next five years. Two deputies were also elected for the FANA's President, namely Saudi Press Agency (SPA) and Jordan News Agency (Petra). Moreover, the participants elected Kuwait, Lebanon, Yemen and Morocco as members in the FANA General Secretariat Staff. The participants also discussed the proposal of Qatar News Agency (QNA) for establishing a regional center for expanding the kid news service, which QNA is currently providing, to cover all the Arab countries and to consider QNA represented in QATARKIDS to be a seat for it. The participants also recommended to study appropriate mechanisms for ensuring success of such a proposal on condition the final relevant decision be taken in the next meeting of the FANA's General Secretariat slated for the middle of next year 2012. They also discussed the updating of the FANA basic statute to cope with the newest developments on the world media arena.
