SAFEGUARDING FREE SPEECH AND THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION:
MEDIA IN TIMES OF CRISIS/
SAUVEGARDER LA LIBERTE D’EXPRESSION ET LE DROIT A L’INFORMATION: LES MEDIAS EN TEMPS DE CRISE

Strasbourg, 13-14 October 2005 / 13-14 octobre 2005

Draft list of participants / Projet de listes des participants

Ms Vesna ALABURIĆ, Attorney-at-Law, ZAGREB, Croatia

Ms Irena ANDJELIC, Journalist, daily newspaper "Pobjeda", PODGORICA, Serbia and Montenegro

Mr Avni ARIFI, Political Advisor to the Prime Minister and Coordinator for Standards, Office of the Prime Minister, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Mr Sefer ARIFI, Legal Officer, Office of the Temporary Commissioner, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Ms Ioana AVADANI, Director, Center for Independent Journalism, BUCHAREST, Romania

Mr Rame BAJRAKTARI, Legal Officer, Office of the Temporary Commissioner, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Mr Roberto BELICANEC, Executive Director, Media Development Center, SKOPJE

Mr Vladimir BELJANSKI (Judiciary), Lawyer, Law Office Beljanski, NOVI SAD, Serbia and Montenegro

Mr Alexander BORISOV, Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MOSCOW, Russian Federation

Mr Mentor BOROVCI, Legal Officer, Office of the Prime Minister, Government Building, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Mr Ronan BRADY, Freelance Journalist, DUBLIN, Ireland

Mr Francisco Javier CABRERA BLASQUEZ, Analyst (legal information), European Audiovisual Observatory, STRASBOURG, France

Mr Naser CANOLLI, Senior Legal Adviser, Office of the Prime Minister, Government Building, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Mr Shpëtim ÇAUSHI, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Albania, Permanent Representation of Albania to the Council of Europe, STRASBOURG, France

Mr Stewart CHISHOLM, Senior Program Manager, Network Media Program, Open Society Foundation (OSI), LONDON, United Kingdom

Mr Jon DEVITT, Political Correspondent, BBC World Service and World TV, LONDON, United Kingdom

Mr Zdenko DUKA, Vice President, Croatian Journalists’ Association, ZAGREB, Croatia

Mr Rory DUNLOP, Registry, European Court of Human Rights, STRASBOURG, France

Ms Elka ERMENKOVA, Judge, District Court of Justice, Bulgaria

Ms Marisa FERNANDEZ ESTEBAN, Administrator, The Audiovisual and Media Policy Unit, European Commission

Ms Dorothee FISCHER, Attachée de presse et journaliste, Association des Agences de la Democratie Locale, STRASBOURG, France

Mr Torbjørn FRØYSNES, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Norway, Permanent Representation of Norway to the Council of Europe, STRASBOURG, France

Mr Alush GASHI, LDK Majority Leader of the Assembly, Assembly of Kosovo, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Mr Robert GILLETTE, Temporary Media Commissioner, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Mr Davor GLAVAS, Head of Service, BBC World Service, Croatian Service, ZAGREB, Croatia

Mr Dmitry GOLOVANOV, Lawyer, Moscow Media Law and Policy Centre, MOSCOW, Russian Federation

Mr Mike GRANATT, Partner, Luther Pendragon, Consultancy, Priory Court, LONDON, United Kingdom

Mr Emil HAVKIĆ, Attorney-at-law, ZAGREB, Croatia

Mr Gent IBRAHIMI, Media Lawyer, Institute for Public and Legal Policies (IPLS), TIRANA, Albania

Mr Francisco Javier INDA, Director of the Department of Interior, Government of the Basque Country, BISCAYNE, Spain

Mr Jose Maria IRUJO AMATRIA, Senior Editor and Investigative Reporter, El Pais, MADRID, Spain

Ms Ksenija JAKOVČEVIĆ, Judge, Primary Court, ZAGREB, Croatia

Ms Virginie JOUAN, Head of the Media Department, OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, BELGRADE, Serbia and Montenegro

Mr Dinko KANCHEV, Chairman of the Executive Bureau, Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights Foundation, SOFIA, Bulgaria

Mr Niklas KARLENDAL, Head of Section, Ministry of Education, Research and Culture, Media Division, STOCKHOLM, Sweden

Ms Nekibe KELMENDI, Chair, Assembly Committee on Public Service, Local Administration and Media, Assembly of Kosovo, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Ms Kristina KOLEVA, Reporter, Broadcast Training Centre ProMedia, « Na chisto » Investigative TV Programme, SOFIA, Bulgaria

Ms Senka KURTOVIC, Editor in Chief, Daily newspaper ‘Oslobodjenje’, SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mr Remzi LANI, Director, Albanian Media Institute, TIRANA, Albania

Mr Aleksandar LAZAREVIC (MP), Chairman, Committee for Culture and Information, National Assembly of Serbia, BELGRADE, Serbia and Montenegro

Mrs Valentina LESKAJ, Chairman of the Media Commission, MP, Albanian Parliament, TIRANA, Albania

Ms Karin LIBY, Ministry of Education, Culture and Research, STOCKHOLM, Sweden

Mr Boris MALAKHOV, Deputy Director, Press and Information Department, Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation, MOSCOW, Russian Federation

Ms Helena MANDIĆ, Media Lawyer, Communications Regulatory Agency, SARAJEVO, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Ms Ljubica MARKOVIC, Director, BETA - News Agency, BELGRADE, Serbia and Montenegro

Mr Rajko MARKUŠ, Senior Legal Adviser, Ministry of Culture and Media of Montenegro, PODGORICA, Serbia and Montenegro

Mr Sacha MEUTER, Assistant Docteur, chargé de recherche, University of Fribourg, Fondation Hirondelle, FRIBOURG, Switzerland

Ms Mirjana MICEVSKA, Leader of the Information Services, Council of Ministers, General Secretariat, SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ms Dunja MIJATOVIC, Director of Broadcasting, Communications Regulatory Agency (RAK), SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mr Gavin MILLAR QC, Lawyer, Doughty Street Chambers, LONDON, United Kingdom

Ms Ivana MORIC, Minister Plenipotentiary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, ZAGREB, Croatia

Ms Jelena MRKIĆ, Media Specialist, Association of BH Journalists, SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mr Fehmi MUJOTA, Deputy Chair, Assembly Committee on Public Service, Local Administration and Media, Assembly of Kosovo, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Mrs Shpresa MULLIQI, Interpreter, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Mr Boris NAVASARDIAN, President, Yerevan Press Club, YEREVAN, Armenia

Mrs Sonja Cvjeticanin OGNJENOVIC, Judge, Osnovni Sud (Basic Court) Herceg Novi, HERCEG NOVI, Serbia and Montenegro

Mr Alexei PANKIN, Comments and Opinion section editor, Izvestia, MOSCOW, Russian Federation

Ms Vitalia PAVLICENCO, - MP - Vice President of the Commission on external politics and of European integration - Member of the Moldovan permanent delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, Parlamentul Republicii Moldova, CHISINAU, Moldova

Mrs Olivia PIRTAC, Media Law Unit Coordinator, Independent Journalism Center (ICJ), CHISINAU, Moldova

Mr Shpend QAMILI, Interpreter, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Ms Catalina RADULESCU, Attorney at Law, Manager of the Strategic Litigation, Centre for Legal Resources, Strategic Litigation Programe, BUCHAREST, Romania

Mr Boris RISTOVIC, Media Assistant, OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Office in Podgorica

Ms Nevena RUZIC, Freedom of the Media Co-ordinator, OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

Dr Gregory SIMONS, Researcher, Crismart and Department of East European Studies, Uppsala University, UPPSALA, Sweden

Mr Dimitar SOTIROV, Executive director, Bulgarian Media Coalition, SOFIA, Bulgaria

Mrs Snezana TRPEVSKA, Head of Programme Department, Broadcasting Council of the Republic of Macedonia, SKOPJE, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”

Mr Cornelis VAN ZWEEDEN, Senior Media Advisor, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, PRISTINA, Kosovo/UNMIK

Mr Adrian VOINEA, vice-president, Asociatia Patronala A Editorilor Locali, Brasov, CRAIOVA, Romania

Mrs Jadranka VOJVODIC, Deputy Director, Broadcasting Agency of Montenegro, PODGORICA, Serbia and Montenegro

Mr Ranko VUJOVIC, Executive Director, Union of Independent Electronic Media of Montenegro (UNEM), PODGORICA, Serbia and Montenegro

Mr Timothée WEIGEL, Juriste, MEDIALEX, PARIS, France

Mr Jon WILLIAMS, TV Newsgathering Editor, BBC News, LONDON, United Kingdom

Ms Maria YANNAKAKI, Press Attache, Permanent Representation of Greece to the Council of Europe, STRASBOURG, France

Mr Xhezair ZAGANJORI, Lawyer, Member of the Constitutional Court, TIRANA, Albania

Mr Sterjo ZIKOV, Public Prosecutor , Skopje Basic Public Prosecutors, Osnovno Javno Obvinitelstvo, SKOPJE

Mr Prec ZOGAJ, MP, Journalist, Albanian Parliament, TIRANA, Albania