Prensa Latina (Miguel Lozano): Almost one hundred Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries started on Thursday the ministerial segment of a conference aimed at seeking new spaces and balance of world information. Top-level experts opened on Wednesday the Seventh Conference of NAM Information Ministers with a series of proposals to be analyzed today by heads of delegations.
The aim is to adopt concrete programs, as of experiences of the Movement and some members, to face the dominion of Northern countries and large companies in communications.
This is part of a process to develop freedom of the press that in the past was identified with the right of media owners to decide editorial guidelines. That principle implied any state attempt to control was a violation of the right to inform. Even within extensive positions of NAM, with 117 members throughout the world, there is an appreciable advance in criteria for a new world information order, a concept limited to theory few years ago.
An initiative for the ministers" analysis is the Latin American multi-state Telesur channel, an example most of the countries attending the meeting consider can be extended throughout the continent. The July 2-4 meeting on the Venezuelan island of Margarita coincides with a period of reactivation of the NAM, to search for balance to northern developed nations.
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