site.btaUPDATED BTA, Xinhua Sign Partnership Agreement

The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) and China’s Xinhua News Agency signed a partnership agreement in Urumqi, China, on Sunday. The agreement was signed by the two news agencies' heads, BTA's Kiril Valchev and Xinhua’s Fu Hua.

The agreement between BTA and Xinhua was signed in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, ahead of the Sixth World Media Summit in Beijing.

Under the agreement, BTA and Xinhua will provide each other news content and multimedia services in English free of charge, and also use the partner agency's photos. The two agencies will be able to broadcast news and other information products on their own websites, and users will be able to distribute these news items without modifying their content and explicitly citing the information source.

Under the agreement, reporters, editors and technical experts from the national news agencies of Bulgaria and China can exchange experiences through mutual training and visits. The document also stipulates that the two agencies will support each other in covering events and visits, as well as provide assistance to local or seconded correspondents of the other country. 

Valchev noted that the free exchange of information between BTA and Xinhua will be particularly useful in the fields of business, tourism and culture.

The agreement take effect as of the date of its signing and will be renewed automatically on an annual basis.

In addition to purchasing news products from 5 global news agencies, following the agreement signed with Xinhua, BTA provides Bulgarian media with news from 48 foreign agencies in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. BTA has such cooperation agreements with the national news agencies of Austria, Azerbaijan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Ghana, Georgia, Greece, Israel, India, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Spain, Yemen, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Ivory Coast, Latvia, Liberia, Lebanon, Morocco, Moldova, Mongolia, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Poland, the Republic of North Macedonia, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Slovakia, Serbia, Turkiye, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, Croatia and Montenegro, and is a subscriber to Ukraine's national news agency.