ANSA signs new partnership deal with Serbian agency Tanjug

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 21 - ANSA has signed a renewed partnership deal with Serbian news agency Tanjug as it expands its international collaboration network after similar deals with Dutch agency ANP, India's PTI, Argentina's TELAM, Uruguay's Uypress and Filipino press agency PNA .
    Like the others, the accord with the Belgrade-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 Serbia Luca Gori, present at the ceremony in Belgrade, said "the confirmation of the historic collaboration between ANSA and Tanjug is important also for the bilateral relations between Rome and Belgrade. All the more so in view of the next few months in which, at the behest of (Foreign) Minister (Antonio) Tajani, we foresee holding many events of political dialogue and economic cooperation between Italy and Serbia. These are appointments whose media coverage will be able to enjoy the effects of this accord also".
    Tanjug Director General Manja Grcic said "this is a very important accord for our press agency. Cooperation between the two agencies already existed before, but this is the first time we have met, since Tačno Company acquired the rights to use Tanjug's brands. This is a very important collaboration for us, ANSA is the biggest Italian press agency, it has over 500 staff and is the oldest in Italy, and we are very happy that all the major global agencies want to work with us. We will exchange information and content and today we are discussing for the first time to discover what there is to be done and what to work on; I think that the exchange of know-how and new technologies is very important, since it is fundamental that Tanjug should continue its development and its growth".
    ANSA Managing Director Stefano De Alessandri voiced satisfaction with this major new collaboration deal with a historic partner: "This new accord constitutes a confirmation and a broadening of the great work that we have already been doing with Tanjug for some time within the framework of the principal European news agency association, of the Mediterranean area, of the Balkans and in the European Newsroom. As well as widening the availability of news and mutual knowledge between Serbia and Italy, this new accord also constitutes an opportunity for the exchange of technological best practices, and a further opportunity to develop projects supporting the communications of the two countries' institutions and businesses". (ANSA).