"Development of publishing industry" .. Decisions of the Syrian Publishers Union at its General Conference

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The Syrian Publishers Union held its general conference under the theme "Developing the publishing industry to promote the renaissance of society" at the Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh, where the political, organizational and financial reports, the recommendations of the current year plan and the reality of the publishing industry were discussed.

Between the President of the Union Haitham Al-Hafiz, that many of the recommendations made at the last conference were achieved despite the difficulties faced by the Union and the publishing industry. It has been working to enhance communication with the members and help them solve their problems and permanent presence with the concerned parties in the cultural and media movement. The publishing industry and the service of its employees will amend its laws and regulations so as to create a quantum leap in intellectual work. He pointed out that the decision that canceled the license of some publishing houses will be amended to come back to work. G The reading shows that the Union every year gets new advantages in the Assad Library Exhibition and there will be new exhibitions in Aleppo, Lattakia and Sweida in the future and exhibitions in the Syrian universities.

Al-Hafez said that a special committee was set up for publishing and intellectual property. Efforts are being exerted to make the federation a member of the International Federation of Publishers. He pointed out that the crisis affected the publishing industry through the exit of many establishments concerned with the book industry. There are difficulties faced by publishers, which are characterized by high taxes and customs duties, high prices of transportation, shipping, advertising and information, difficulty in participating in foreign exhibitions and problems of censorship. That is working to modify the internal system of the Union to be better adapted to the current reality.

The President of the Union that an ambitious plan for work for this year has been developed and that the recommendations of the conference will be implemented in the coming period.

The Syrian publishers' conference, the strengthening of the Committee on the Freedom of Publication and Intellectual Property, approved the approval of the Publishers Health Fund to become a law that provides the Prime Minister with the approval and approval of the Pension Fund for Publishers to become a law for the Prime Minister to approve and approve relations with housing associations. The approval of the establishment of the Syrian Book Fair and the formation of a higher committee to support the publishing industry in Syria through the development of the work of the Union and its working committees and provide good services to publishers, promoting reading in Syria through the support of reading tendencies In the end, the members of the conference wished that cooperation would be their slogan for the next phase of building Syria civilization.

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