UN Editors Group

Aid for Trade partnerships are essential to create a “Brand Africa” that is inspiring, development-led and export-oriented. These initiatives span cities, countries and regions. They combine national, bilateral and international partnerships in different ways.

This year’s annual meeting of UNEG started off today in Paris. A range of issues were discussed on the first day. The future of print magazines in the UN was in focus in the first session in the morning. The post-lunch session on reaching new audiences included discussions on the use of new web tools such as blogs, podcasts, YouTube and Swivel. And the third session dealt with the use of plain language in the jargon-infested world of the UN. Tomorrow the discussions will be on topics like editorial convergence for magazines, books and the web, and copyright in publishing. UNESCO is hosting the meeting this year.

The OSCE Magazine, launched in March 2004, is the flagship publication of the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Published in English and Russian four to five times a year, it targets a broad readership in the OSCE’s 56 participating States and 11 partner countries through in-depth articles and interviews addressing the human, politico-military and economic/environmental aspects of security.

The Magazine is circulated widely in the OSCE’s 19 field operations in south-eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Now just over three years old, the publication has steadily evolved into a tool of public diplomacy. Print-run is 7,000 copies in English and 2,000 in Russian. French and Spanish versions are also available online.

For a print version, register online or mail to osce-magazine-at@osce.org or simply drop a line to the Magazine Editor at: Pat.Sutter@osce.org