International Media Centers
Kuwaiti International Media Centers abroad promote Kuwait's media objectives in the host countries. Their aim is to provide media institutions and decision making authorities with information as print material, video and audio tapes about different aspects of life in modern Kuwait. Since 1990, information centers and offices have been established in Washington, London, Paris, New Delhi, Beirut, Tunisia, Algeria, Amman & Morocco.

The following are some of the objectives of Kuwait information centers and offices operating abroad :

-To project Kuwait's presence at official or popular levels; and to obtain a permanent
  space in all mass media in the host countries to promote a complete image of Kuwait.
-To showcase Kuwaiti achievements in all spheres like political, economic, social and
  cultural and in all aspects, domestic, Gulf, Arab, Islamic and world.
-To inform public opinion in the host, and to correct misinformation about Kuwait
  transmitted by mass media in these countries.
-To seek permanent communication with all public sectors in those countries as a
  means of achieving closeness and harmony between Kuwaitis and the people of
  those countries.
-To participate in relations of humanitarian and social nature in the countries where
  such centers are located, at the regional and international levels.
-To set cultural and information related relations with country based information
  centers and offices

International Media Centers and offices, in coordination with International Media Department in the Ministry of Information, explain and showcase Kuwaiti policy, history, culture and art, and its active role on the Arab, Islamic and international area. This is done through participation in information fairs, seminars and lectures. The Media Centers also coordinate with each other in sending invitations on national and special occasions to the press and to luminaries in other fields. They also coordinate with each other when initiating contracts with specialized information institutions to implement specific programmers.

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