At the “Press club: Saylov.uz -2016”, a ceremony was held on 2 December to give awards to the winners of the social advertising national contest. The ceremony was attended by members of the Senate of Oliy Majlis (parliament) and deputies of the Legislative Chamber, representatives of state, public and international organizations, foreign observers, experts and employees of local and foreign mass media.

At the “Press club: Saylov.uz -2016”, a ceremony was held on 2 December to give awards to the winners of the social advertising national contest. The ceremony was attended by members of the Senate of Oliy Majlis (parliament) and deputies of the Legislative Chamber, representatives of state, public and international organizations, foreign observers, experts and employees of local and foreign mass media.

This contest was arranged by the national association of electronic media of Uzbekistan in cooperation with the parliamentary commission for the management of the funds of the public foundation for supporting nongovernmental non-commercial organizations and other institutions of civil society at the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Central Electoral Commission, the UNESCO office in Uzbekistan, the Uzreport TV and Zor TV nongovernmental television channels and some other organizations.

During the event, the chairman of the parliamentary commission, A.Saidov; the chairman of the board of directors of the national association of electronic media of Uzbekistan, F.Abduholiqov; and others said that as a result of special attention paid to supporting and consistently developing mass media in the country, the ranks of nongovernmental television and radio studios were expanding and that the range of television and radio programmes being made by them was increasing.