Ankara: The Bahrain News Agency (BNA) and the Turkish Anadolu Agency (AA) have agreed to enhance their co-operation by exchanging news, publishing reports and photos, taking advantage of each other’s professional and technical expertise and organising training sessions.
This came as a delegation of Bahraini journalists led by BNA’s acting director-general Mohannad Suleiman Al Nuaimi, visited the media office of the Turkish Council of Ministers.
The two agencies agreed to unify efforts, enhance co-operation and co-ordination with various Asian, Islamic and international federations and hold joint training sessions in both countries.
Mr Al Nuaimi affirmed that co-operation with the Anadolu Agency follows BNA’s keenness to expand co-operation and co-ordination with its international counterparts in the fields of news and media exchange and staff training.
Mr Al Nuaimi highlighted BNA’s outstanding status among international news agencies and its desire to expand and take advantage of successful experiences.
He also stressed the crucial role played by BNA and AA in strengthening relations between the two countries.
Mr Al underlined BNA’s keenness to avail of the experiences of developed news agencies, within the framework of its programmes to spread and increase its presence in the regional and global media arenas.
He said BNA has signed many memoranda of co-operation with a number of Arab, Asian and foreign agencies, and will sign new ones with other agencies in the coming period.
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