General Assembly

  This is ASBU’s supreme authority, whose prerogatives extend to all areas likely to help meet the Union’s objectives. It is made up of all active, participating and associate ASBU members and holds ordinary sessions once a year.

  Executive Council 

Mission

  The role of the Executive Council is to assume all the prerogatives befalling to the General Assembly in the period in between two ordinary G. A. Sessions and to initiate, accordingly, all necessary measures thereon, with the exception of those attributions and special concerns the General Assembly maintains under its own control. 

            Membership
 
The General Assembly mandates the Executive Council for two years, which can be renewed only once. It is composed as follows:

• 12 members, representing the active members and chosen in respect to alphabetical order, according to the rule of half renewal, in conformity with the terms defined by the General Assembly’s 29th session.

• One third of ASBU’s participating members, provided that number is between a minimum of two and a maximum of six, in conformity with the terms defined by the General Assembly’s 29th session.

• The Council’s membership for the period 2009 - 2010 includes the following:
1. Jordan
2. United Arab Emirates
3. Bahrain
4. Tunisia
5. Algeria
6. Djibouti
7. Saudi Arabia
8. Sudan
9. Syria
10. Somalia
11. Iraq
12. Oman
13. Lebanese Information Group (Al-Manar TV and En-Nour radio)
14. MBC

Council President and Vice-President for the years 2009-2010

•  Dr. Riyadh Kamal Najm, Deputy Vice Minister for Technical Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Information, Saudi Arabia (President)

•   Mr Momtaz al-sheikh (Syria), Vice President.

Meetings

  The Executive Council meets at least twice a year to examine the ASBU Standing Committees' reports as well as the reports of other permanent bodies and what other item(s) is/are on its agenda. 

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