New era steps up requirements to mass media: President Nazarbayev
Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov read out the statement.
"Dear participants of the forum! I would like to congratulate you on the opening of the 10th jubilee Eurasian Media Forum. Over ten years the Eurasian Media Forum has become a unique platform for global dialogue on the most pressing issues. This is a high-profile event for Kazakhstan as well as for reps of the international media community. Leading experts from across the globe give their response to modern challenges of the 21st century at the forum. The beginning of a new era of information transparency steps up requirements to mass media and their moral responsibility to the society," the statement continues.
President Nazarbayev noted the forum would facilitate further joining together efforts of journalists, politicians, and public figures in order to solve problems of geopolitics and media sphere.
"I wish you to have interesting meetings, fruitful discussions, inspiration and success," the statement concludes.