(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to the United Nations’ (UN) high representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wolfgang Petritsch, RSF expressed its concern about the closing of Yugoslav state radio Radio Yugoslavia’s broadcasting centre in Bijeljina (in the North-East of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb republic). The organisation asked for an explanation for the closure. “Our organisation […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to the United Nations’ (UN) high representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wolfgang Petritsch, RSF expressed its concern about the closing of Yugoslav state radio Radio Yugoslavia’s broadcasting centre in Bijeljina (in the North-East of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb republic). The organisation asked for an explanation for the closure. “Our organisation would like to know the reasons which led the United Nations’ high representative to order the closure of the broadcasting centre of a radio station owned by the Yugoslav state,” added Robert Ménard, RSF’s secretary-general.
According to information collected by RSF, on 18 August 2000, the United Nations’ high representative ordered the closure of Radio Yugoslavia. The radio station’s transmitters were seized by UN police the next day. The centre allowed the broadcast of state radio programmes abroad, in fourteen languages.
