Ankara, Aug. 27 (BNA): The Bahrain News Agency (BNA) and the Turkish Anadolu Agency (AA) have agreed to enhance their cooperation through exchanging news, publishing reports and photos, taking advantage of each other’s professional and technical expertise and organising training sessions.

This came during the visit of BNA’s Acting Director-General Mohannad Suleiman Al-Nuaimi, alongside a delegation of Bahraini journalists, at the invitation of the Media Office of the Turkish Council of Ministers.

The two agencies agreed to unify their efforts, enhance their cooperation and coordination with various Asian, Islamic and international federations and hold joint training session in the two countries.

BNA acting director-general affirmed that cooperation with the Turkish Anadolu Agency was within the framework of BNA’s keenness on expanding cooperation and coordination with its international counterparts in the fields of news and media exchange and media staff training.

Al-Nuaimi highlighted BNA’s outstanding status among international news agencies, and its desire to spread and take advantage of successful experiences.

He also stressed the crucial role played by BNA and AA in strengthening the solid friendship relations bonding the two countries and their peoples, progressing steadily in all fields, especially the media and press ones.

He underlined BNA’s keenness on availing 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, noting that BNA has signed many memoranda of cooperation 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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BNA 1541 GMT 2015/08/27