BNA D-G Re-elected Sec. Gen. Balkan News Agencies-SE

Ismail Abdulaziz
Sep, Thu, 2025

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BNA D-G re-elected Sec. Gen. Balkan News Agencies-SE

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The Director-General of the Bulgarian News Agency (BNA), Kiril Valchev, has been re-elected as Secretary General of the Association of Balkan News Agencies- Southeast Europe (ABNA-SE) for a second term of three years.

The re-election was ratified at the regular annual General Assembly of ABNA-SE held in Skopje on Wednesday.

The event was hosted by the state news agency of the Republic of North Macedonia, MIA.

ABNA-SE is headquartered in the Bulgarian capital Sofia at the BTA’s offices.

The Prime Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia, Hristijan Mickoski, addressed the Assembly with the theme ‘Truth in the Media’’.

Valchev said that news is the first version of history, adding that cooperation between news agencies on sharing of news archives would contribute to the establishment of truth in the media.

He said that the archives of the 127-year-old BTA include over 6 million pages of paper bulletins, nearly 2 million photographs, and an archive with more than 500,000 thematic files, all of which are currently being digitized.

“Today, they are a memory of yesterday and an invaluable source of history. What’s more, they are also a lesson for us today.”

Ilija Musa, representing Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Federal News Agency (FENA), was elected President of ABNA-SE.

MIA Director General, Darko Janevski, was elected to the Management Board.

Over the next two years, Janevski will continue the term of the previous MIA Director General, Dragan Antonovski.

The third member of the Management Board remains the Chair of the Board of Greece’s Athens News Agency-Macedonian Press Agency (ANA-MPA), Emilios Perdikaris.(BNA/NAN)

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