A cooperation agreement between the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) and the national information agency of Latvia, LETA, was signed by BTA Director General Kiril Valchev and LETA Executive Director Juris Mendzins. The document was signed in Toronto during the 35th conference of MINDS International Media Innovation Network - an association of 25 leading news agencies from around the world for cooperation in the field of information services.
The agreement stipulates that each side receives the other's full set of English-language news feeds, and both sides have the right to use this information in their news services.
In addition, each of the two agencies will provide the other with a daily briefing on a significant news story from its country, with English text and a photograph, which the other agency will post on its distribution channels with free access to all visitors to the respective websites, provided the source is explicitly acknowledged.
The agreement also provides for the possibility of exchanges of experience and professional visits by journalists and other media professionals from both news agencies.
Latvia's national news agency was founded as Latopress in 1919, shortly after Latvia became independent.
So far, BTA has 33 such cooperation agreements - with the national news agencies of Azerbaijan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vietnam, Ghana, Greece, Israel, Iran, Spain, Italy, Cambodia, Cyprus, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Kosovo, Lebanon, Liberia, Mongolia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, the Philippines, the Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
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