SANA, Iranian news agencies discuss improving media cooperation

General-director of the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Ahmad Dawa discussed Monday with Iranian News Agency IRNA counterpart, Mohammad Khodadadi ways of developing the cooperation agreement signed between the two agencies.
Khodadadi pointed out that (IRNA) has established a special group to cover the events in Syria, adding the ground is available for full cooperation in the news filed to face the current challenges.
For his part, Dawa briefed his counterpart on SANA performance and the latest developments taken place in the last years regarding the technical and editorial sides.
He affirmed the vast cooperation between the two agencies to suit the level of advanced ties between the two countries in different fields.
SANA director also met a number of officials at Tasnim News agency, discussing with them cooperation among the two agencies in light of the signed agreements to exchange technical and professional sessions to raise the level of performance.
He pointed out to the importance of removing any obstacles that prevent delivering news services to the two agencies as soon as possible.
Dawa also discussed with Director General of FARS News Agency, Nezamoldin Mousavi the possibility of using technical expertise in avoiding the hacking attempts to which SANA website is repeatedly exposed.
For his part, Mousavi expressed readiness of put FARS technical expertise to SANA’s engineering cadres, affirming the need for expanding cooperation between the two agencies.