KUNA chief meets Qatar envoy, ONA director
KUWAIT CITY, March 15, (KUNA): Director General of Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) Dr. Fatma Al-Salem Wednesday discussed with Qatari Ambassador to Kuwait Ali Al Mahmoud Kuwaiti-Qatari ties and ways to boost them, especially in media, along with cooperation between both countries’ news agencies.
During the meeting, Dr. Al-Salem highlighted the importance of exchanging media visions and experience between Kuwait and Qatar to achieve a prominent media position regionally and internationally, stressing KUNA’s keenness on enhancing media cooperation with Qatar through its different media agencies especially Qatar News Agency (QNA).
She also praised the competence and efficiency of Kuwaiti and Qatari media figures and journalists, which in turn positively reflects on the media discourse of the two countries.
For his part, the Qatari ambassador praised the importance of KUNA’s media role in highlighting the depth of both countries’ brotherly relations and fruitful cooperation in the media fields through specialized and diverse news materials that reflect these relations.
He also praised KUNA’s credibility in performing its media mission with full freedom and responsibility reflecting pioneering kuwaiti media at Gulf, Arab and international levels amid technological and social media challenges.
Dr. Fatma Al-Salem and her counterpart at the Oman News Agency (ONA) Ibrahim Al-Azri met on Wednesday, discussing ways to bolster cooperation between the two media entities.
During the reception of Al-Azri and the accompanying delegation at KUNA’s headquarters, Director Dr. Al-Salem welcomed ONA representatives’ visit to the agency, affirming that Kuwait News Agency would provide all of its assets to help boost media cooperation between the two sides.
She reiterated KUNA’s desire to develop its news and journalistic capabilities via using the latest technologies to deliver the latest media updates to the masses.