UAE- NMC's responsibilities redefined

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times)  His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has issued a Cabinet decision No. 9 of 2013 with respect to the organisational chart of the National Media Council (NMC). As per the new decision, the council will be tasked with shouldering all media-related responsibilities in the UAE and coordinating the media policy among the emirates in line with the UAE's domestic and foreign policies with the aim of supporting the federation and national unity and providing assurance and stability to citizens. The council will also be tasked with supervising all mass media across the UAE, highlighting the country's positions in Arab and international assemblies, receiving the world mass media representatives and correspondents of newspapers and agencies and providing them with the necessary information on the UAE's positions in all areas, representing the UAE in media conferences and activities inside and outside the country, issuing licences to media corporations and tracking the media content of everything printed and published in the country or imported from outside.