Wednesday 04 / November / 2026
Cairo: The Sultanate of Oman participated today in the 56th session of the Council of Arab Ministers of Information, held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in Cairo.
The session was chaired under the chairmanship of Abdulfattah Qasim Mahmoud, Somali Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism and Chairman of the current session, in the presence of Nabil Fahmy, Secretary-General of the Arab League.
The Sultanate of Oman's delegation at the meeting was headed by Mohammed Said Al Bulushi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information.
The session discussed a number of topics associated with the key challenges facing Arab media, alongside ways to coordinate Arab media efforts and enhance their presence at both regional and international levels.
The Council examined media support for the Palestinian cause and followed up on the implementation of the Arab Media Action Plan Abroad, in addition to the work of the Arab Electronic Media Committee and the role of Arab media in countering the phenomenon of terrorism.
Furthermore, the Council discussed the Arab Media Map for Sustainable Development 2030, formulating a unified strategy for dealing with international media companies, encouraging media quality and professional excellence, and building the capabilities of Arab media professionals, as well as tracking the executive plan for the Arab Strategy for Media and Information Literacy.
The agenda also featured examining the unified Arab plan for addressing environmental issues through the media, utilizing artificial intelligence technologies in Arab media and their repercussions on the human element, alongside the file of the Capital of Arab Media and Arab-Chinese cooperation in the media field.
The Sultanate of Oman's delegation had participated yesterday in the work of the 105th ordinary session of the Permanent Committee for Arab Media, held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in Cairo. During this meeting, the Committee discussed several priority media files and issues on the Arab arena, foremost among them developing the Arab media system and enhancing media support for the Palestinian cause.
