UNESCO Press Release No.2002-56 (03/09/2002) - Declaring that democracy cannot be established without a “wide range of impartial and editorially independent information sources”, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today urged the Afghan Government to fulfill its pledge to diversify media outlets and “remove itself” from the media it controls.
UNESCO Press Release 2002-59 (06/09/2002) - – A formal recommendation to enshrine the principles of free speech and free media in the new Afghan constitution has been warmly welcomed by UNESCO.
