BEIRUT
Anadolu Agency (AA) and Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) signed a cooperation agreement on exchange of news stories and technical assistance.
AA's Chairman of the Board and Director General Kemal Ozturk and NNA Director General Laura Suleiman Saab signed the agreement in Beirut on Tuesday.
Lebanese public television network, Tele Liban, became a subscriber of Arabic news of the AA. The agreement was signed by Ozturk and Tele Liban Director General Ibrahim El Khoury.
Earlier today, Anadolu Agency inaugurated an office in Beirut that will be part of Middle East operations directed from Cairo.
Lebanese Information Minister Walid Daouq, Ambassador of Republic of Turkey in Beirut Inan Ozyildiz, AA's Chairman of the Board and Director General Kemal Ozturk, AA board members, political party representatives in Lebanon, and chief editors of televisions and newspapers attended the opening ceremony held in the city center of Beirut.