King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz King of Saudi Arabia said in a speech delivered on his behalf by the Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Abdulaziz Khoja at the opening of the summit of the Asian 11 Media in Jeddah, that «social media began to take a large part of the media landscape, and we were not far away, but is not afraid of them, It provided the state has a strong structure along the broad areas Kingdom, and the percentage of its users, and put her state organization ensures their contribution to education and culture, and be a forum for the exchange of ideas useful wisdom and reason ».

It quoted a report to Al-Hayat the minister as saying that «the founder of this country's King Abdulaziz - God bless his soul - realized by more than 100 years that the media and campaign word partners in the process of transformation and modernization, their hands keys influential, can contribute strongly to the speed of community acceptance for his project of civilization and the development of the renovation, The support - may God have mercy on him - media activity early, despite the scarcity of resources at the time, were issued the first newspaper «Umm Al-Qura» for more than 90 years, and approached the radio year of the 70, and celebrated TV over 50 years ».

He said Saudi King: «The producers of technology in a race lasting for the production of means of rapid and comfortable, you may be happy working in the media field, but it puts them in front of difficult challenges, and requires them to renewal permanent in the form and content of their messages the media, to be able to tighten the recipients of the content of the positive impact of their behavior ».

He added that «the world is exposed to the effects of cultural external shaking religious values ​​and humanitarian tarnishing the purity, and weaken its system of ethical marketing business is responsible, and all that we hope for from this summit, which is comprised of experts empowered them to their status and influence, that seeks to be a media product messenger of love and best respects religious values , and strengthens the moral fence system, remains a good tree to remain human all/

He said: «you are aware of what the world is witnessing conflicts and human tragedies are full of the news, and here comes the role of the word responsible in all media, to contribute to the promotion of the values ​​of communication within the spectra in the same society or with other societies».

He concluded by saying: «is high time that we learn from the harsh lessons of the past, and that we meet the ethics and ideals that we all believe in, and to make the culture of dialogue and in accordance with a continuous approach».

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