Rome, July 20, AZERTAC “We hope that our cooperation will enter a new stage thanks to the partnership agreement signed between the ANSA and AZERTAC news agencies, Chief Executive Officer of Italian news agency ANSA Stefano De Alessandri told AZERTAC. Emphasizing that ANSA and AZERTAC news agencies have been maintaining cooperation for many years, Stefano De Alessandri said: “We have signed an important partnership agreement with AZERTAC. We signed the first agreement in 2005, and we renewed it this year. Our relations with AZERTAC have always been very good and important. We collaborate within the same international organization and are also members of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA).”The ANSA CEO underlined that the new agreement would give an important impetus to the development of cooperation between the two agencies. "We hope that our existing cooperation will enter a new stage thanks to the partnership agreement we have signed. The agreement envisages the information exchange between the two agencies, including widely covering the developments and important events in both countries. We are interested and ready to take a better position in Azerbaijan. We are very excited about this agreement and hope that it will be an important step for greater cooperation between the two news agencies,” Stefano De Alessandri said. Nihad BudagovSpecial Correspondent