Former Acting President of Press Council, Nepal, Kishore Shrestha has been elected as the Vice President of World Press Council. He was elected vice-president from the summit of the council held in Tanzania, an African country.

Shrestha had previously been the general secretary of the World Press Council. The new leadership of the council has been unanimously elected for the next three years. However, the newly elected Vice President Shrestha said that the entire process of the election has been completed.

The proponent of Shrestha who represented Nepal was Indian Press Council representative Sudhir Kumar Panda and the supporters were Lofty Dubey from Zimbabwe, Dr. Tin Tun O from Myanmar, Ibrahim Arslan from Kosovo and Kazubi Mukajanga from Tanzania. 

David Omoyo (Kenya) has been elected as the Council President and Ali Hanserli (Cyprus) as the other Vice President. Similarly, Tanzania's Ernest Samson Sungura became the Secretary General and Turkey's Tamer Atabarut became the Treasurer.