Macedonian Information Agency (MIA) is a public

Public

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 information service

News agency

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 from the Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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. It is among the news agencies that provide professional standards in the sphere of its basic function - covering events, news and information. MIA works 24 hours a day distributing news on Macedonian

Macedonian language

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, English

English language

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, Albanian language

Albanian language

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 supporting the entire information space - printed and electronic media in the country, the media on Macedonian language abroad, the Macedonian embassies and other organisations, institutions, missions

History

MIA was established by Macedonian Parliament

Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia

The Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, the Assembly , has 123 members, elected for a four year term, by proportional representation from 6 electoral districts, each contributing 20 MPs.- Result :...

's decision in 1992. By the decision of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in 1997, MIA started to work in 1998. It is registered as stock company

Stock company

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.

MIA launched the first news on September 30, 1998.

Membership

MIA is a member of ABNA - the Association of Southeast European News Agencies and part of information pool: ROMPRES

ROMPRES

-History:The agency was founded with the name AGERPRES, standing for "Romanian Press Agency" After 1989 the agency changed its name to ROMPRES ....

 (Romania

Romania

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), BTA

Bulgarian News Agency

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 (Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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), ATA

Albanian Telegraphic Agency

Albanian Telegraphic Agency or short ATA, which uses the Albanian language, as well as the English language and French language. It is the government organisation for News in Albania.-External links:* * *...

 (Albania

Albania

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), Tanjug

Tanjug

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 (Serbia

Serbia

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), MINA

MINA (Montenegrin News Agency)

MINA or Montena informativna agencija is a Montenegrin national news agency which was formed on March 11, 2002. It is based in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica. MINA's current executive director is Jaša Jovićević. It has services in Montenegrin, Albanian and English....

 (Montenegro

Montenegro

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), FENA

Fena

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 and SRNA (Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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), STA

Slovenian Press Agency

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 (Slovenia

Slovenia

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), HINA

HINA (Croatian News Agency)

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 (Croatia

Croatia

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), ANA

Athens News Agency

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 - MPA

Macedonian Press Agency

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 (Greece

Greece

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), Anadolu Agency

Anadolu Agency

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 (Turkey

Turkey

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), APA (Austria), EFE

EFE

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 (Spain

Spain

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)...

Cooperation

MIA co-operates with the largest news agencies - the Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse

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 (AFP), the Chinese Xinhua, the iran

Iran

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ian IRNA, the British World Service BBC

BBC

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, the German DPA

DPA

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, the Russian ITAR-TASS. Worldwide information services Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle

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, Free Europe, the Voice of America

Voice of America

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are using the MIA services.