The fifth General Assembly of BSANNA (Black Sea Association of National News Agencies) opened on June 13 in Baku with the support of the Azerbaijani state telegraph agency Azer TA, GHN reports.
The decision for conduction of the assembly in Baku was taken in March of 2010 on the IV General Assembly of BSANNA in Tbilisi. The chairman ship will be passed from the Georgian news agency GHN to Azer TA. President of organization - Gocha Mirtskhulava passed the Presidency to Aslan Aslanov, Director General of Azerbaijani state information agency for the period of 2011-2012 yy.
The Bureau of the Association was elected witch includes heads of news agencies from Bulgaria (BTA - Maxim Minchev), Georiga (GHN - Gocha Mirtskhulava) and ITAR-TASS Mikhail Gusman.

In the assembly: "Innovational development: transparency and modernization" heads of national information agencies of Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova Serbia, Romani, Greece and Macedonia were taking part.
From Georgia (news agency GHN) at the Assembly were represented Director General Gocha Mirtskhulava, Editor-in-Chief Teimuraz Chumburidze and International Department head Ekaterine Momtsemlidze.