Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Meets General Manager of Italian Agi News Agency

TEHRAN (farhang.gov.ir) - Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Mr. Ali Jannati met and conferred with the visiting General Manager of Italian Agi News Agency

Date: 13 July 2014 - 21:51

News ID: ۲۷۲۵

According to Public Relations and Information Center of Ministry of Culture, Mr. Jannati while announcing signing of a letter of understanding between Iranian official news agency IRNA with Agi News Agency on exchange of news and information and technical matters, said Iranian Cultural Attachés is active in Rome and Iran and Italy have very long history of cultural ties. Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic guidance said, undoubtedly, news agencies play a major role in shaping public opinion and can be very effective in bringing nations together. Mr. Jannati went on saying that today news gathering and dispatching have become very modern and new agencies have turned to dispatching of video footages and in this new form of news dissemination, honesty and trustworthy in gathering and airing of news have become a critical necessity. He added that there are 18 news agencies in Iran among them IRNA and a news agency affiliated to Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) are state owned. According to Mr. Jannati, some 6,000publications including dailies and periodicals are published in Iran and that the government intends to provide more space for those who are interested in news media. Commenting on oppressive sanctions imposed on Iran in recent years, Minister of Culture said some of these sanctions have been unilateral and not approved by UN’s Security Council and has caused lots of inconvenience for the Iranian people, but we have done our utmost to convince the international community that our nuclear program is strictly for peaceful purposes. .General Manager of Agi News Agency for his part said we believe that Iran with respect to its potentials can play a major role within international community. He added that upon signing of letter of understanding with IRNA we will produce news in Persian language so that our Persian subscribers can have access to news in Persian language.