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)
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