28 October 2009
Luanda — The Angolan ambassador, Luís Neto Kiambata, said Wednesday in Luanda it is "essential" and "indispensable" for the Angola Press Agency (Angop) management to pay more attention to the training of its personnel and keep pace with world technological evolution.
This, the diplomat said, will enable the agency to distribute its news services in real time.
The official said so while speaking to Angop, during a visit to its premises, as part of the celebrations of the 34th anniversary of the agency, on October 30.
He said that once well trained and equipped, the professionals of the country's sole news agency will be in a better position to inform on the development of Angola.
To Luís Neto Kiambata, who was Angop's first director general (1975-1978), better work and social conditions will secure the agency a major engagement in the gathering and processing of news, including the production of facts with high standard.
"Angop is Angola's gate to the world, and is therefore a must that an attention be paid to the social condition of the workers who are tasked with showing the country and its development to the international community", said Luís Neto Kiambata.
Comparing the early days of the agency and the present, Luís Neto Kiambata highlighted that the great difference rests in the digitalisation and use of new information and communication technologies of today.
"Today Angop is in a better position than in the past, as all is done through a computerised network. It has equipment that enable it to send out items from various points of the country and the world, using means we did not have when we started in 1975", he stated.
He thus praised the agency's management for having invested in the modernisation and expansion to the provinces and creation of networks in districts.
"It is with great satisfaction that I have noticed that Angop has set important steps, becoming a reference in terms of social communication. It is a pride to learn that from the embryo built with so much sacrifice emerged today a renowned and internationally recognised firm", he stated.
The Angola Press Agency (Angop) is a public company of great dimension, endowed with juridical status and administrative, financial and patrimonial autonomy.
ANGOP was established in Luanda in July 1975, having its first dispatch been released on October 30 the same year.
ANGOP has as its task to gather, process and distribute news items locally and abroad, based on an objective reporting on national and international reality.
It also provides an electronic point-to-point, Internet or e-mail news services either directly or otherwise to local and foreign media organs, based on agreed terms.
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