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BELGRADE -- The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) protested strongly on Wednesday over the conduct of the U.N. Civilian Mission in Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) in the sphere of informing charging it of preventing in the most drastic way the work of Serbian-language media.
The sole Serbian-language paper with a 55-year tradition, Jedinstvo, was evicted from the Press Centre in Pristina, for example, while the business facilities from which all property belonging to Panorama and Jedinstvo was looted, were handed over the the newly-founded Alabanin-language Dardanija Press and the School for Journalists, also in Albanian.
According to UNS, instead of creating the necessary conditions, with the aid of UNMIK, for the work of Jedinstvo and enabling the unimpeeded work of this paper, in conditions when the lives and property of journalists are not safe and after they have been evicted from their apartments in Pristina, Serbian-language papers are seriously being threatened and the freedom of information is being prevented in this part of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Such conduct, as well as the jamming of radio and television signals from the other parts of Serbia, are proof more that UNMIK does not intend to secure equal conditions for the information of all inhabitants of Kosovo and Metohija, but intends to completely reject the basic principles of the U.N. Charter and to grossly violate U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija.