ULAANBAATAR – The 33rd Executive Board meeting and the 27th Editorial-Technical Experts Group meeting of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) opened on Tuesday in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia.

Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold made the opening speech. Managing director of Montsame, the Mongolian news agency, and the director of Anatoli, the Turkish news agency, also addressed the meeting.
Montsame, the Mongolian news agency, will be hosting the event which will be held to mark the 90th anniversary of the inception of the new agency and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of OANA.
Directors of the Asia-Pacific news agencies will discuss the establishment of a permanent secretariat for OANA and addition of new members to the organization.
Established in 1961, OANA aims to secure direct and free flow of news in the region. Turkey currently holds the rotating presidency of OANA.
The OANA 31st Executive Board meeting and the 25th Editorial-Technical Experts Group meeting were held in Tehran in November 2009 on the theme of “A Quest for Global Media Balancing.