QNA chairs 23rd meeting of GCC States’ news agencies Heads| Gulf Times – Gulf Times

QNA chairs 23rd meeting of GCC States’ news agencies Heads| Gulf Times – Gulf Times

The 23rd meeting of the heads of news agencies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries was held virtually on Monday.HE Director-General of Qatar News Agency (QNA) Ahmed bin Saeed Al Rumaihi chaired the meeting.HE Ahmed bin Saeed Al Rumaihi affirmed that the key objective of the meeting is to enhance communication and cohesion among the GCC news agencies and forge integration and cooperation among them in a wide diversity of media fields to serve the mutual interests based on shared benefits.His Excellency stressed that the luminous turning points in the lengthy career of the GCC news agencies would have never been achieved without the unwavering support the agencies and media institutions in the GCC states had received from Their Majesties and Highnesses heads of the GCC states.HE Al Rumaihi pointed out that the massive transformations in communication and social media platforms have generated significant changes in the techniques of producing, distributing and receiving information and news materials, thus posing an overwhelming challenge to the GCC news agencies, highlighting that the GCC news agencies have early realized this matter, and subsequently strived to upgrade their works and broadened the circle of their written and visual production, thus distributing information to