site.btaBTA Director General Presents Future Press Club in Belgrade, Says BTA's Correspondents and Press Clubs Belong to All Bulgarian Journalists
Presenting the future press club of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) in Belgrade, BTA Director General Kiril Valchev Friday said the news agency's correspondents and press clubs abroad belong to all Bulgarian journalists and can be used for Bulgarian media events.
BTA and the Consular Service of the Bulgarian Embassy in Serbia Friday unveiled a commemorative plaque of the Bulgarian journalist, writer and revolutionary Lyuben Karavelov.
Speaking at BTA's future press club, Gospodin Yovchev, Chief Operating Officer of bTV Media Group, who attended the unveiling of the plaque, said that the office looks great and its upcoming opening is impressive. "I hope only good news will be reported from Serbia," he added, wishing good luck to BTA's Belgrade correspondent Teodora Encheva.
Milen Mitev, Director General of the Bulgarian National Radio and Chairman of the Union of Bulgarian National Electronic Media, said: "We are all happy that the Bulgarian national media have already set foot in Belgrade thanks to BTA and we are looking forward to your news from here."
Anton Andonov, Member of the Board of the Bulgarian National Television, added: "We are looking forward to more of BTA's new press clubs."
Hristo Hristov, Executive Director of the Bulgarian National Darik Radio, recalled that it was not "much easier" to open BTA's first press club abroad, in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. "Things here look really very European, very solid, very modern. It remains to be filled with life and developed. Objective news will come from here - I do not know whether it will be good or bad news, but it will be objective. BTA produces objective news," he stressed.
Attending the commemorative plaque event and the presentation of BTA's future press club were Bulgaria's Ambassador in Belgrade Petko Doykov; Angel Angelov, Head of the Bilateral Relations General Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Momchil Raichevski, Director of the Southeast Europe Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Dimitar Tsanev, Consul General of Bulgaria in Nis; Zoran Djurov, President of the Municipal Council of Tsaribrod; and representatives of the Bulgarian community in Serbia from Belgrade, Tsaribrod, Bosilegrad and Vojvodina.
Bulgarian musician Theodosii Spassov played on the kaval the song Hubava Si Moya Goro (You are beautiful, my forest) set to a poem by Lyuben Karavelov, and those present joined in with the lyrics.
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