The Arab Producers Union, affiliated with the Council of Arab Information Ministers at the League of Arab States, considered that “the State of Kuwait’s hosting of the meetings of the 104th session of the Standing Committee for Arab Media, and the 22nd regular session of the Executive Bureau of the Council of Arab Information Ministers, with the participation of representatives of member states and relevant specialized organizations and unions, reflects and reinforces the national role and dimension of Kuwait in supporting and backing Arab issues, as well as its influential involvement in the work of the Committee on Environmental Media and the extent of its adoption of its plans and strategies in this regard.”.
This was stated by Dr. Wijdan Aloqab, Vice President of the General Union of Arab Producers and head of its participating delegation, who indicated that “the Union’s diverse participation, with the presence of the General Secretariat for Environment and Sustainable Development of the Union, in the meetings held over two days in Kuwait, included items on the Palestinian issue, the media roadmap for sustainable development, and the unified Arab plan for dealing with environmental issues in the media.”.
Dr. Aloqab added, “With regard to the Palestinian issue, the Union proposed using the environmental file in the media, and using the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflicts - November 6 - as it perfectly matches the Palestinian issue in its environmental dimensions and to show the serious damages that have been inflicted on it as a result of Zionist crimes, including soil pollution with projectiles and internationally criminalized white phosphorus, drinking water pollution, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure, sewage pollution, soil erosion and destruction of agricultural lands.”.
Regarding the item on the media map for sustainable development, Aloqab pointed out during her participation in the meetings that “the fact that the environment is linked to the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals is clear, and that environmental media is a basic tool that can be employed in raising awareness of those goals.“ She indicated that ”the General Secretariat for Environment and Sustainable Development of the General Union of Arab Producers submitted a proposal for a training guide to develop the capabilities of Arab media professionals in the field of environment and sustainable development.“.
Regarding the item on the unified Arab plan for dealing with environmental issues in the media, she said in her intervention in this context: “We are honored that the General Secretariat for Environment and Sustainable Development of the Arab Producers Union is among the members of the small working group to develop the plan, which includes many aspects, with the widespread Arab praise during previous meetings held at the League of Arab States for the Kuwaiti experience in the field of environmental awareness and media, which covers many items of the adopted plan.” She also commended “the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information for its initiative in forming the Environmental Media Committee, which helps to focus at the national level with the participation of a select group of specialists, while emphasizing the importance of encouraging visual and audio production in the field of the environment, and providing links to the series of documentary programs on wildlife in Kuwait to the League of Arab States Observatory, in addition to the necessity of supporting Arab environmental magazines and periodicals such as the Environment Magazine issued by the Kuwait Environment Protection Society.”.
