ANSA signs partnership deal with Moldovan agency Moldpres

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 20 - ANSA has signed a new partnership deal with Moldovan news agency Moldpres as it expands its international collaboration network after similar deals with Dutch agency ANP, India's PTI, Argentina's TELAM, Uruguay's Uypress, Filipino press agency PNA, and Tanjug of Serbia.
    Like the others, the accord with the Chisinau-based agency envisages an exchange of content and forging an enriched offering of international news for clients as well as developing joint commercial offers to boost the communication of institutions and businesses in their respective countries.
    Italian Ambassador to Chisinau Lorenzo Tomassoni took part in the signing ceremony remotely.
    "Today's accord helps further consolidate the excellent Italo-Moldovan relations," he said.
    "Rome is now closer than ever to Chisinau. It is no accident that ANSA is the second EU news agency after Agerpres of Romania to start a structured collaboration with Moldpres," Tomassoni went on, adding "the deal boots the freedom of the press and the fight against fake news, two essential components of the commitment which Moldova, a candidate for EU accession, is deepening with determination and success in order to belong to the free world".
    Moldocan Ambassador to Rome Anatolie Urecheanu, present in the ANSA office, said "this agreement completes and diversifies the excellent political rapport which already exists between our countries. We are opening a new chapter in sector cooperation, competing and broadening bilateral ties with a new concrete ambit". Urecheanu stressed the importance of this collaboration in view of Moldova's bid to join the EU, "which presupposes that it is working to reach the standards set by the European Union in all sectors".
    Moldpress Director-General Petru Beregoi, on a videolink from the agency's HQ, thanked the ambassadors as well as ANSA Managing Director Stefano De Alessandri for their receptiveness and opening and observed that Moldpres is guided by the democratic principles and dispositions of the universal code of journalistic ethics, with a rigorous observation of the dispositions.
    "Today's accord will be a new step towards the cooperation of the Moldpres Agency with similar media institutions of the European Union," he said.
    De Alessandri also voiced satisfaction with the signing of the accord and the exchange of newswires, saying that the agreement was "the first step towards a wider collaboration also from a commercial standpoint and a technological ambit". (ANSA).