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IRNA Chief, UN Under-Secretary General Confer In NY

Tehran, Oct 1, IRNA – Managing Director of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) Mohammad Khoddadi discussed the IRNA-UN media cooperation in a meeting in New York on Tuesday with the Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information. Referring to the significant role played by the UN in the strategic and crisis-stricken region of the Middle East, Khoddadi voiced IRNA's readiness to cooperate with UN in the fields of journalist training and exchange of information. He made the remarks in a meeting with Maher Nasser, Under-Secretary General for Communications who is also the Acting Head of UN Department of Public Information (UNDPI). Khoddadi was among senior Iranian officials accompanying President Hassan Rouhani in his recent visit to New York during which he attended the 69th annual session of the United Nations General Assembly. The IRNA chief told Nasser that providing necessary information in the fields of fighting against extremism and violence as well as attracting public attention to the environmental issues and crises like global spread of Ebola disease are among serious duties of information dissemination agencies. He urged UN Department of Public Information to play its vital role in preventing and confronting global crises, particularly wars and bloodshed in the Middle East region. IRNA chief also voiced the agency's readiness to cooperate with the UNDPI in crisis-stricken areas to strengthen unbiased dissemination of information about all nations regardless of their color, race or religion. He said IRNA is prepared to cooperate with UN in conducting joint workshops, exchange of news photos and newsreels to help the international body fulfill its humanitarian mission in the Middle East region. Meanwhile, the UN Under-Secretary General welcomed IRNA cooperation with the world body to promote humanitarian efforts in crisis areas, particularly those which were victims of extremism and terrorism. Nasser also voiced the body's readiness to cooperate with IRNA in covering events at the international forums as well as UN information centers in Vienna and Tehran. During the meeting the two also exchanged views on translation and publication of UN Yearbook 2014 in Persian language. Deborah Seward, UN Director of Strategic Communications Division (SCD/DPI), and Hua Jiang, UN Acting Director of the News and Media Division (NMD/DPI) were also present in the meeting./end

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