5 March, 2010 - 17:02

OSCE Permanent Council Selected New Media Freedom Representative

The OSCE Permanent Council recommended the Committee of Ministers to appoint Dunja Mijatović for the position of the OSCE Media Freedom Representative, Ria Novosti informs.

Dunja Mijatović is an incumbent Chairperson of the Bosnia and Herzegovina-based European Platform of Regulatory Authorities (EPRA).

The second three-year term of Miklos Haraszti, current OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, ends on 10 March.

Having delivered his last report to the Permanent Council on 4 March Miklos Haraszti stressed that "Monitoring of the kind that takes place within the OSCE is crucial to encourage countries to uphold press freedom commitments."

Haraszti highlighted the need for universal press freedom standards - a theme he has promoted consistently during his mandate. "The greatest challenge has been upholding the very notion of universal standards. Media-freedom problems are not only omnipresent, they perpetually re-emerge," Haraszti said.

"These six years in the job have strengthened my conviction about how indispensable international scrutiny is for the fate of human rights," said OSCE Media Freedom Representative.

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