ANSA signs cooperation agreement with Ethiopia's ENA

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 19 - ANSA has signed a new cooperation agreement with the Ethiopian news agency ENA, continuing to expand its network of international partnerships with news agencies around the world.
    The agreement makes available and provides for the exchange of content between the two news agencies and envisages the development of joint commercial proposals to support the communication of institutions and companies in their respective countries.
    It was signed by remote by the CEO of the Ethiopian agency Seife Deribe and ANSA's CEO Stefano De Alessandri, in the presence of the Italian ambassador in Addis Ababa, Agostino Palese. Ambassador Palese said: "My Embassy and I work daily to strengthen ties between Italy and Ethiopia, because we believe strongly in the strategic partnership between our two countries.
    We are therefore very pleased that the ties between Italy and Ethiopia are also expanding to include the cooperation between the two important news agencies ANSA and ENA; it is a fundamental step to bring our two peoples closer together".
    In a statement the Ethiopian Ambassador to Italy, Demitu Hambisa, who was unable to attend the ceremony, expressed her satisfaction at the agreement: "Ethiopia and Italy have come a long way since they started relations in 1889, working closely together in both bilateral and multilateral contexts; diplomatic relations cover political, economic, social and cultural aspects. I believe that the cooperation agreement signed today between two long-standing news media of the two countries testifies to the broad and evolving relationship between Ethiopia and Italy: since ENA and ANSA are the oldest and largest news agencies in their respective countries, they will be able to meet the information needs of their countries and regions in general".
    For his part, ENA CEO Seife Deribe said that "today's agreement between these two great agencies, ENA and ANSA, strengthens relations between Italy and Ethiopia".
    "We will work together to promote the relations between the two countries that have already been established by their respective leaders," he continued, also recalling that Ethiopia "has the highest concentration of Italian schools and cultural institutions in Africa".
    ANSA CEO Stefano De Alessandri stressed that "this partnership will allow us to improve our coverage of events in Ethiopia, and likewise it will enable ENA to offer more news about Italy in Ethiopia, as well as representing a first step in the development of projects to support the communication of companies and institutions in the two countries".
    (Photo: Italian Ambassador to Ethiopia Agostino Palese) (ANSA).