DUSHANBE, December 2, 2008, Asia-Plus  - The third forum of national media of the CIS and Baltic countries formally titled “Media and Humanitarian Potential of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)” opened in Moscow yesterday.

Representatives of media organizations of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Estonia, as well as leading members of expert-analytical community of the CIS countries were invited to the forum, which is staged by Russia’s news agency RIA Novosti in association with the International Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation.

Tajikistan is represented by Poulod Nourov, executive secretary of Tajik Journalists’ Union, Umed Babakhanov, director general of the limited liability company Asia-Plus, and some other media editors at the forum that is ending today.

The main objective of the forum is in consolidating efforts of journalistic community to turn the CIS information area into an effective tool of cooperation and its participants are expected to develop a model of stable information partnership.

The first forum of media of the CIS and Baltic nations was held in Moscow in December 2006.