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BELGRADE - Reporters, especially those in Kosovo-Metohija, must have safety in order to provide the most objective information at home and abroad, it was noted in a meeting of Serbian and UNESCO media workers on Wednesday.
Serbian Journalists' Association President Milorad Komrakov was meeting with UNESCO media chief Klaus Schmidter and UNESCO media advisor Anti Kusi, who are evaluating the media situation in Yugoslavia, of which Serbia is a constituent part.
Komrakov stressed that the media in Serbia meet the criteria for freedom of the press, and that the Association, the biggest of its kind in the country, rallies journalists from all political parties, as well as non-party and non-governmental organisation members.
He went on to say that NATO's March 24-June 10 aggression on Yugoslavia had been accompanied by a war against the Serbian media.
NATO bombed Serbian Radio and Television, killing 16 people at their jobs, in what was the only case in the history of journalism that a media house was declared a military target, he added.
The media war against Yugoslavia has continued in some form since the aggression and, according to the Yugoslav ministry of telecommunication, Serbian radio and television frequences are jammed from abroad, especially Channels I and II, Komrakov said.