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".
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