President Ricardo Martinelli said that the government will have more respect for the media after a meeting today with representatives of press organizations.
Martinelli said that he will issue an official statement that will recognize the importance of the respect for freedom of expression and the free practice of journalism sometime in the next month.
Martinelli has come under scrutiny for his treatment of the press after he verbally assaulted journalist Hugo Famanía during a press conference. Famanía was at the meeting today, along with Núñez Montoto (president of the National Council for Journalism), Grisel Bethancourt (National College of Journalists) and Philemon Medina (Panama Journalists Union).
24/04/2012 - "We met and we talked, it is a point in which the country gains" Famanía said at the end of the meeting.
Medina said that the media representatives expressed "things that we have considered threats to freedom of expression and the exercise of journalism" to the president during the meeting.
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