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The Belarusian international media forum represents a traditional venue for exchanging opinions and working out new ideas. It will grant an opportunity to consolidate partnership-building efforts of the international media community and experts specializing in various branches of knowledge. The forum will also offer an opportunity to improve interstate integration processes and create common humanitarian space of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

This year’s forum will be held in view of the 25^th anniversary since the foundation of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Belarus’ special peacemaking role in a complicated geopolitical situation. The 20^th anniversary of the foundation of the Union State of Belarus and Russia has been marked this year as well.

The main events of the forum will include a plenary session and panel sessions focusing on various topics (the National Olympic Committee, 13 May), a summer school for reporters including master classes by leading foreign and Belarusian reporters (the Journalism Institute of the Belarusian State University), and the project on Belarus’ cultural legacy as part of the Year of Culture. The guests will also take part in events of the 20^th international expo Mass Media in Belarus that will take place on 11-14 May.

Heads of mass media as well as prominent political analysts, experts from CIS and non-CIS states are invited to take part in the media forum. Representatives of 21 countries (over 300 people in total) are expected to arrive in Minsk for the forum.

The program of the media forum is available on the website of the Belarusian Information Ministry.

The forum is organized by the Belarusian Information Ministry and the Permanent Committee of the Union State of Belarus and Russia with assistance of the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation of the CIS member states, the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minsk city administration, the Minsk Oblast administration, and the Grodno Oblast administration.