E – Syria Times Newspaper Launched
DAMASCUS, (ST)_ Minister of Information Mr. Omran al-Zou’bi inaugurated here today the first Syrian E- newspaper ” Syria Times”. The launching coincides with the country’s celebrations of the 39th anniversary of the Liberation War of October, led by the late President Hafez al-Assad.
The inauguration of this pilot project, together with other services, economic and media projects, is a further step forward on the way of reform and development.
The inauguration of these projects, as Syria is facing a global conspiracy- media outlets of fabrications and lies have been playing their misleading role- reveals the determination of the Syrians to continue defiant on the way of reforms and development.
On the importance of the re-launching the “Syria Times” e-newspaper, Minister al-Zou’bi said: “We are in need for new tools to communicate with English-speaking communities, as to address the people of these communities and present our views and causes the way they understand, and not the way we want to.”
Minister Al-Zou’bi asserted that the launching of this e-newspaper is not a kind of ”political or media luxury”, but is an urgent need to communicate and interact with the other in complete transparency, accuracy and credibility.
The Minister underlined the need to make a success of the “Syria Times”, so as to achieve its hoped-for goal and to attain wide circulation by publishing it in different languages.”
Minister Al-Zou’bi asserted the need to restore the paper copy of the newspaper since this kind of publications still have their own readers.
“I think this is very important to convey our media message to wider categories of readers.” the minister concluded.
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