(ANSA) - ROME, APR 6 - The News Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR) signed an agreement with the Italian ANSA news agency to enable the mutual use of each other's news service in English and photographs, TASR reported today. The deal was inked in Bratislava by the chief executive officers of TASR and ANSA, Vladimir Puchala and Stefano De Alessandri. The Italian Ambassador to Slovakia Catherine Flumiani attended, TASR informed.

"It's an honour for us to collaborate with ANSA, a major and internationally respected agency," said the TASR chief executive officers Vladimir Puchala, quoted by TASR. (ANSA).