The Ministry of Culture, Information, Sports and Youth Policy of Kyrgyzstan invites interested parties to discuss the revised draft law on media. The press service of the ministry reports.
According to it, in accordance with the instructions of the Presidential Executive Office, the ministry, relevant government agencies and the media community finalized the draft Law of the Kyrgyz Republic «On the Mass Media».
The meeting will take place on June 28 at 10 a.m. in the large hall of the National History Museum. Representatives of the Parliament, government agencies, the media community, international organizations and all interested parties are invited to the discussion.
In early March the President held a closed meeting with the heads of leading media outlets and well-known journalists. Representatives of the media raised, among other things, the issue of the media law. Sadyr Japarov promised to look into it.
On March 13, spokesman for the president Askat Alagozov announced that, on the instructions of the head of state, the bill on mass media, which was adopted in the first reading by a parliamentary committee, was withdrawn.
The bill developed by the presidential administration was submitted to the Parliament in early January. This is the fifth version of the document; it was finalized by members of the working group created by order of the head of state Sadyr Japarov in December 2022. However, the draft law was not finalized, agreed upon or approved by all members of the working group. There was no clause-by-clause discussion.
The working group on the new media law included five people from the presidential administration: the head of the Legal Support Department Murat Ukushev, a department expert, representatives of the Legal Department, the press service and the Ministry of Culture, as well as 15 media representatives.
