The International Press Syndicate (INPS) Group’s Multimedia Director Katsuhiro Asagiri, who is also President of INPS Japan, travelled to Belgrade on way back from Vienna to Tokyo from May 13-17, 2017, where he visited our colleague and had some other meetings.
We are delighted that Vesna Peric Zimonjic has agreed to join the INPS Board as Director for Southeastern Europe, comprising Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.
Vesna has decades long experience in journalism, freelancing among others for the Inter Press Service since 1991, when wars of disintegration of former Yugoslavia kicked off. In 1999 she began contributing for the British daily The Independent. Both engagements covered major developments in the turbulent region.
She also reported from the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for the BBC World Service, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Deutsche Welle Radio and TV in English, Radio France International as well as Radio Ireland and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Besides, she did weekly media monitoring for the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) under the regime of former leader Slobodan Milosevic. In February 1994, she organised the desk of the first independent news agency in Serbia, FoNet as the deputy editor in chief. Between 1976 and 1994 she worked at the national news agency Tanjug as the Foreign Desk editor and reporter at large.
Ambassador Maria Nazareth Farani Azevedo of Brazil (left in the photo) addressing launch of the Exhibition as representative of the Platform for Human Rights Education and Learning, comprising the governments of Brazil, Costa Rica, Italy, Morocco, the Philippines, Senegal, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Thailand. Credit: Kimiaki Kawai | SGI
Eminent disarmament campaigner Alyn Ware, Founder and Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) attended the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference from May 2-12 in Vienna. INPS multimedia director and President of INPS Japan joined IDN-INPS DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura at a meeting with Alyn Ware and invited him to a video interview.
IDN-INPS DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura met Ambassador Salah Abdel Shafi from the Mission of the State of Palestine to Austria & Slovenia and the Permanent Observer Mission to UN and International Organisations in Vienna met during the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference from May 2-12 in Vienna.
Discussions centred around:
The background to the State of Palestine becoming the 191st member-state of the NPT in the 2015 NPT Review Conference in New York,
50 years since Israel occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights;
100 years since the Balfour Declaration, issued by the British Empire in support of a Jewish state in historic Palestine; and
70 years since the UN Partition Plan allotting 56% of historic Palestine for a Jewish state, which triggered the Nakba (mass displacement of Palestinians from their lands).
Daryl Kimball, the Executive Director of the Washington-based Arms Control Association (ACA), was in Vienna in the second week of the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference from May 2-12. IDN-INPS DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura discussed with him the status of negotiations on May 9 and invited him to a video interview which was recorded by the INPS multimedia director Katsuhiro Asagiri.
India’s Minister of State for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines was a keynote speaker at the Vienna Energy Forum 2017 on May 11 at Hofburg Palace in the Austrian Capital.
IDN-INPS DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura met him briefly and invited him for a video interview, which was recorded by INPS multimedia director Katsuhiro Asagiri.