22 April 2008
Luanda — Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) Inspectors visited Tuesday the premises of the Angola Press Agency (Angop), where they learned of the organisation and functioning of the State-run media organ and expressed their satisfaction.
During their tour of the premises, the inspectors also learned of the reality and functioning of the country's sole State agency.
Speaking at the end of the visit, the higher inspector for analysis of programmes of FAA verification system, Manuel Luís, said he gained a different idea about the functioning of the agency.
"I can see here many elements knowledgeable and strongly willing to work, an organ that exerts its functions without constraints," the inspector said.
Manuel Luís also encouraged the journalists to continue working with devotion towards informing and forming the society in general.
In their turn, the journalists spoke of the sensitiveness of some areas of work of the agency, mainly concerning politics in this particular phase of the country that is heading for elections.
The visitors asked questions about Angop internal functioning, particularly concerning where the treatment of news stories is concerned.
The access to the sources of information was also one of the matters the FAA military officer got acquainted with.
To Domingos Bartolomeu, a FAA inspector, "the quality and dynamic in the functioning of Angop is far above the average."
The visitors of about 30 officers, is part of the events of the "Military Inspector Day", marked on April 26.
The FAA General Inspection (IGFAA) is an organ of technical assistance to the Defence Ministry tasked with the control and administration of the human, material and financial means at the disposal of the Angolan army, organisms and integrated services of the National Defence Ministry under its jurisdiction.
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