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Sujata to talk ‘media meddling’ with Sood
BIRATNAGAR, AUG 30 -
Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala on Monday said she will hold talks with the Indian Ambassador on the controversial press statement issued by the embassy, which the media fraternity here has said violates press freedom.
Koirala’s response comes at a time when some Indian media outlets have been accusing the Nepali media of intensifying a campaign against Indian joint ventures and distorting the Indian embassy’s concerns.
In a press meet organised by the Morang chapter of Nepal Press Union at her residence in Biratnagar, Koirala said, “After returning to the capital, I will discuss this problem with Indian Ambassador Rakesh Sood.”
She said no one should meddle in the affairs of the media.
She, however, added that the media should be equally responsible and avoid dissemination of wrong information.
Drawing upon her father, the late Girija Prasad Koirala’s life-long struggle for press freedom, Koirala said she will follow in the footsteps of her father as “democracy will be meaningless without press freedom.”
Koirala, who is also the deputy prime minister, noted that things like insects found in packets of juice produced by the Indian joint venture Dabur would do no good to Nepali as well as Indian consumers.
In response to journalists’ query on the increasing intervention of the Indian Embassy in Nepali media, Koirala said she will discuss the issue with the ambassador.
Posted on: 2010-08-31 09:04
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