Jeddah (UNA) - The head of Arabic content at the Uzbek News Agency, Fathuddin Thamrulidinov, revealed that the agency publishes news in nine international languages, including Arabic, explaining that the agency launched its Arabic department in 2010.
This came during his participation in the “Symposium on Enhancing Arabic Content in Non-Arabic-Speaking OIC News Agencies,” which was held virtually on Monday (September 2, 2024) jointly organized by the Federation of OIC News Agencies and the King Salman International Academy for the Arabic Language, with broad participation from member news agencies, international organizations, and a number of diplomats and media professionals.
Thamrulidinov explained that Uzbekistan News Agency is keen to enhance cooperation with news agencies of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation countries and with the King Salman International Academy for the Arabic Language.
He highlighted some of the agency's efforts to highlight the activities of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the country's achievements in various fields, in order to introduce the Arab world to Uzbekistan in terms of its development, foreign policy, and issues of trade and economic development.
He stressed the agency's interest in developing bilateral and multilateral relations in the Arab world, especially with Pakistan's move to strengthen its relations with many countries of the world, especially Arab countries.
It is noteworthy that the symposium witnessed the holding of two specialized discussion sessions, the first of which was entitled: “Challenges of Arabic content in news agencies of non-Arabic-speaking OIC countries,” and the second was entitled: “The vision of the King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language to enhance the content of non-Arabic-speaking news agencies.”
The two sessions reviewed the mechanisms and programmes contributing to linguistic development, discussing the challenges facing the relevant news agencies, and the best ways and solutions to overcome them; to come up with a systematic vision that contributes practically to designing institutional linguistic qualification programmes and plans, and facing the challenges related to the use of the Arabic language for news and media purposes.
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