Manama, Safar 04, 1436, November 26, 2014, SPA -- The General Assembly of the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA) concluded its 42nd conference in Manama yesterday, which was chaired by Mr. Abdullah bin Fahd Al-Hussein, the President of Saudi Press Agency (SPA), President of Federation of Arab News Agencies, and President of News Agencies World Council. FANA issued a press statement on the two-day conference which adopted a number of decisions on its future activities, courses, seminars, and cooperation with other groups and news agencies. The statement pointed out that it was agreed to hold a meeting of Follow-up Committee for Dialogue between Arab and World News Agencies to discuss several issues related to the news, as well as continuing holding a meeting between representatives of European and world news agencies and Arab News Agencies to study news exchange topics. The General Assembly stressed the need to continue working on United Arab Economic Bulletin between Arab News Agencies, noting that the next annual conference of the General Assembly will be held in the State of Kuwait. --SPA 12:31 LOCAL TIME 09:31 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w