A conference to design the legal framework for democratic media in Iraq, is taking place June 1-3, 2003 in Athens, Greece. It is the first multilateral forum to address post-war reconstruction.
Organised by Internews Network, a non-profit organization supporting open media worldwide, and hosted by the Greek Foreign Ministry, which currently holds the presidency of the European Union, the conference’s other major sponsors include UNESCO, the US Agency for International Development, the German Foreign Office, and the Russian Ministry of the Press.
The three-day symposium has brought together leading Iraqi, Arab and Western media experts to develop a set of policy recommendations for legal and regulatory reforms in Iraq. These reforms are meant to foster free, pluralistic media in post-Saddam Iraq.