The BAJ Congress Voted for New Leadership of Belarusian Association of Journalists

75 del­e­gates out of 80 nom­i­nat­ed BAJ mem­bers took part in the Con­gress.

The Con­gress par­tic­i­pants com­mem­o­rat­ed the BAJ mem­bers, who have passed away since three years, name­ly Ali­ak­sei Karol, Han­na Vol­skaya, Zmit­si­er Sauka, Vol­ha Karatke­vich, Paval Sharam­et, Yury Shapran, Uladz­imir Zhy­hu­lou, and Yauhien Suly­ha.

The Con­gress del­e­gates approved the reports of BAJ lead­er­ship, audit com­mis­sion, and ethics com­mis­sion. Also, all vol­un­teers had oppor­tu­ni­ty to deliv­er their speech­es dur­ing the gen­er­al meet­ing.

A num­ber of doc­u­ments was adopt­ed dur­ing the 10^th Con­gress, includ­ing the State­ment of the 10th BAJ Con­gress. The State­ment draws spe­cial atten­tion to the present­ly dis­cussed amend­ments to the Belarus Media law by the Belaru­sian par­lia­men­tar­i­ans.

Among oth­er, the Con­gress par­tic­i­pants called upon the Belaru­sian author­i­ties:

- to arrange broad dis­cus­sion of pro­posed changes in the media law with par­tic­i­pa­tion of Belaru­sian and inter­na­tion­al experts, media sec­tor rep­re­sen­ta­tives as well as busi­ness peo­ple and the civ­il soci­ety rep­re­sen­ta­tives;

- to update the draft amend­ments to Mass Media law before their sec­ond read­ing with all opin­ions tak­en into account;

- to admit the free­lance jour­nal­ists’ right to col­lect and dis­sem­i­nate freely infor­ma­tion in the domes­tic and for­eign media.

More­over, the Con­gress res­o­lu­tion was adopt­ed dur­ing the Con­gress.

The Con­gress del­e­gates elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives of new man­ag­ing bod­ies of BAJ.

In par­tic­u­lar, the del­e­gates elect­ed Ali­ak­san­dr Staryke­vich, Ali­na Suravets, Aleh Aheyeu, and Barys Haret­s­ki to told the posi­tions of Deputy Chair­per­sons of BAJ.

Also, the del­e­gates elect­ed the BAJ Board, that gath­ered the BAJ Chair­per­son and his Deputies as well as Anton Surapin, Yury Kar­manau, Mary­na Zahorskaya, Zhan­na Litv­ina, Zoya Khrut­skaya, Uladz­imir Yanuke­vich, Iry­na Vidana­va, and Yuliya Slut­skaya.

The BAJ Coun­cil gath­ered 33 peo­ple, includ­ing Yahor Martsi­novich, Maryia Savushk­i­na, Andrus Kliku­nou, Vol­ha Khvoin, Ale­na Naskovich, Miko­la Bianko, Mak­sim Khli­a­bets, Ale­na Stsi­a­pana­va, Barys Vyr­vich, Vol­ha Bara­nouskaya, Tat­siana Smotk­i­na, Henadz Kesner, Pavel Lev­in­au, Ali­ak­sei Min­chonak, Maryia Eis­mant, Valiantsin Zhdanko, Svi­at­lana Har­da, Vik­to­ryia Chap­l­e­va, Uladz­imir Dzi­u­ba, and Yulia Katarzyn­skaya.