The agreement, penned at 3:00 p.m., local time, on Monday, in the main building of Adnkronos, in this capital, “will contribute to enhancing the flow of information and mutual understanding” between the Italian press agency and the Latin American news agency, with official headquarters in Cuba.
Present at the signing ceremony were Adnkronos President Giuseppe Marra, Cuban Ambassador Mirta Granda; the managing director of the Italian news agency, Angela Antonini; and the head of Prensa Latina’s office in Rome, Oscar Redondo.
Other witnsesses to the signing were Adnkronos Director Davide Desario and the head of the Commercial Development, Claudio Chiucchiú; as well as the counselor of the Cuban Embassy for press and Cultural Affairs, Rancés Correa, and the third secretary of that diplomatic mission, Gabriela Gámez.
The Cuban ambassador underlined the importance of this agreement between the two news agencies, a new initiative that further strengthens the ties between Italy and her country, two nations that maintain a positive relationship and whose peoples are united by cultural and historic ties.
The deal was inked by Antonini, on behalf of the Italian news agency, and Redondo, who represented Prensa Latina President Luis Enrique González.
According to the document, both parties will develop bilateral professional cooperation in the media field.
They also plan to promote projects to expand and improve information space, and promote objective and professional reports on cultural, humanitarian, economic, sporting and political issues.
It will contribute to strengthening information flows and mutual understanding between Adnkronos and Prensa Latina, which will reciprocally facilitate access to up-to-date news on events of interest in the form of informative texts, photographs and video materials.
Additionally, the agreement expresses the will to organize joint media events, as well as the intention to provide all possible assistance to journalists from both media outlets in their respective territories.
Adnkronos was created in 1963 from the merger of Kronos, an information medium founded in 1951 and the Italian News Agency (ADN), founded in 1959 and currently considered one of the most important information agencies in Italy and Europe.
Prensa Latina, founded in 1959, has some 40 correspondents around the world, enjoys a solid international reputation and is recognized as an alternative media outlet that provides objective and timely information to make public the truth that is often manipulated or silenced by the major international press.
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