KABUL, December 11, Asia-Plus – A group of Tajik journalists is currently in Afghanistan on a fact-finding visit.
This visit has been organized as part of the “Tajikistan-Afghanistan: Bridges of Friendship” project supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Tajik journalists are familiarizing themselves with activity of their Afghan colleagues. Over the past weekends, they visited offices of the Radio Liberty’s Afghan Service and “Subh ba Khair Afghoniston” (Good Morning Afghanistan) radio station and Afghan parliament and held talks with top managers of the National Association of Journalists of Afghanistan, as well as editors of Afghan newspapers “Afghanistan Weekly” and “Eqtidori Afghoniston.”
NED is a private, nonprofit organization created in 1983 to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. The Endowment is governed by an independent, nonpartisan board of directors. With its annual congressional appropriation, it makes hundreds of grants each year to support prodemocracy groups in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union.
