Bashar al-Assad President Presidential Palace Abu Ruman al-Rashid Street Damascus Syria 11 July 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and journalists, extends to you its best wishes on your inauguration as President of Syria. In doing so, IPI would like to express the hope that you will use […]

Dr. Dervis Eroglu Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Office of the Prime Minister Lefkosa Cyprus Vienna, 11 July 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and journalists, is deeply concerned about the arrest of four Turkish Cypriot journalists. According to IPI’s sources, Sener Levent, owner […]

H.E. Joseph Estrada President Manila Republic of the Philippines Vienna, 10 July 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and journalists, strongly condemns the abduction of three French TV journalists on the southern Philippine island of Jolo. According to IPI’s information, the three journalists were abducted on 9 July […]

H.E. Andres Pastrana Arango President Office of the President Santa Fe de Bogota Colombia Vienna, 6 July 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute, the global network of editors and journalists, strongly condemns the killing of television journalist Marisol Rebelo. Rebelo, 25, had been working for a local TV news programme sponsored by an environmental […]