The 29th General Assembly of the Alliance of News Agencies in the Balkans and Southeast Europe (ABNA-SEE) is taking place for the first time in its history in Pristina. The new secretary general was also elected on Saturday morning. The proposal of the Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATSH), Branka Gabriela Vojvodic from the Croatian news agency HINA received the majority of votes taking over the important duty in ABNA-SE. Also, at today's meeting, it was decided that the next Assembly, the 30th in a row, will be held in Bulgaria under the auspices of the BTA news agency. On this occasion, according to the statute of ABNA-SE, the presidency passes to the agency KosovaPress, as host of this year's Assembly, marking another important moment in the history of the first and largest Kosovar agency, but also in the country. Several other organizational issues of ABNA-SE were also discussed at today's meeting. The focus of discussions between the heads of ABNA-SEE news agencies this year was the impact of COVID on the media. The Alliance of Balkan and Southeast European News Agencies was formed in 1995 with the aim of ensuring greater co-operation between the region's news agencies but also contributing to a climate of peace, friendship, security and co-operation in our region. The founding conference was held in Thessaloniki in 1995, as an initiative of the MPA, while the first Assembly was held in Antalya, Turkey on 15 and 16 December 1995. Regular members of the organization are: AGERPRES (Bucharest), ANA-MPA (Athens), ANADOLU AGENCY (Ankara), ATA (Tirana), BTA (Sofia), CNA (Nicosia), FENA (Sarajevo), HINA (Zagreb), MIA (Skopje), TANJUG (Belgrade) and KosovaPress (Pristina), while observers are Moldova, Slovenia, Armenia and Montenegro.