All member agencies approved the new status that regulates the issues of the organization, while ABNA-SE is also officially registered with a legal status with headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria, thus following the example of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA).
The new president of ABNA-SE has been elected Aimilios Perdikaris of the Greek news agency ANA-MPA. With the new status, the host country of the next assembly is the country where the new president comes from. Thus, Greece will organize the 31st ABNA-SE Assembly to be held next year.
Kiril Valchev, director general of the Bulgarian news agency BTA, has been elected secretary general.
Skënder Krasniqi from KosovaPress (Kosovo), Aimilios Perdikaris from ANA-MPA (Greece) and Serdar Karagöz from Anadolu Agency (Turkey) were elected members of the ABNA-SE board.
In this Assembly, it was decided that in this Association, there should be only one member from Bosnia and Herzegovina, since with the new status, a country should have only one news agency.
Until now, two news agencies from Bosnia, FENA News, as well as the news agency from the Republic of Serbia, Srna, have been part of ABNA-SE. After the opening of discussions and arguments of both agencies, as well as the word of all other agencies, it was determined only for one.