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Yugoslav ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Branko Brankovic, presented a protest letter to the general secretary of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Yoshio Uchumi, protesting against the jamming of the frequencies of Yugoslav radio and television stations, especially the first program of Belgrade Radio and the first, second and third channels of the Serbian Radio and Television (RTS) out of the territory of Hungary, Croatia and some other neighbouring countries, as well as from ships and planes, the federal Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
In the letter Brankovic said that the jamming of Yugoslav radio frequencies and TV channels is contrary to top ITU documents and the International Charter on the Basic Rights and Freedoms of citizens who are entitled to free informing. The jamming of frequencies is a violation of the sovereign right of a country to define its own telecommunications, and the ITU is requested to take immediate and corresponding steps, in keeping with its established standards, and stop the jamming of the programs of Yugoslav radio and TV stations.
Brankovic added that KFOR, without explanation and contrary to UN Security Council Resolution No. 1244, has destroyed the radio and TV transmitter on Mokra Gora, in the north of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province.
Yugoslav ambassador at UNESCO in Paris, Nada Perisic-Popovic, also protested the practice of jamming Yugoslav radio and TV frequencies in a letter to UNESCO General Director Federico Mayor. She said that in question is the most flagrant example of the violation of international norms which secure the right to public informing in keeping with the UNESCO Statute and with relevant international conventions. Perisic-Popovic demanded from Mayor to act correspondingly in order to halt this practice, the federal Foreign Ministry said in a statement.