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GENEVA - The Federal Telecommunications Ministry has announced that the jamming of the frequencies of Yugoslav radio and TV stations from the territories of neighboring countries represents the violation of the sovereign rights of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the head of the Yugoslav standing mission at the Geneva U.N. seat, Ambassador Branko Brankovic, said in a letter to International Telecommunications Union (ITU) General Secretary Yoshio Ucumi.
Brankovic stated that "the sovereign right of every country is to regulate its own telecommunications in keeping with international standards." He recalled that the actions against Yugoslavia "threaten the existing system of international telecommunications."
Brankovic set out that Yugoslavia respects multilateral agreements on the interstate coordination of frequencies. Broadcasts on the frequencies which have been allocated to Yugoslav radio and television stations according to international plans, or on frequencies which would jam the Yugoslav electronic media, represent the flagrant violation of the basic plan for the allocation of frequencies as set by ITU and of the media freedoms in Yugoslavia, Brankovic said.