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Radio and TV Aggression Against Cuba Denounced

CUBA, 14 February, 2007.- "Radio and television transmissions broadcast illegally to Cuba from the United States are inadmissible, even more so if they are designed to promote internal subversion on the island," said Fabio Leite, Radiocommunication Bureau Director of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Leite is attending the 12th International Convention and Exposition: Informatics 2007, representing ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure. He assured that upon returning to Geneva, the venue of that international organization, he will personally denounce the radio-electronic aggression of the United States against Cuba.

The illegal US transmissions are currently up to 2,425 hours of transmission each week, broadcasted on 30 radio and TV frequencies. Radio and TV Marti have multi-million dollar budgets from the US Congress, which have been greatly increased during the Bush administration that has implemented across the board tightening of the nearly half-century blockade on Cuba.

The ITU executive emphasized that this constant US attack constitutes a violation of the organization’s Radio Communications Rules and Regulations, stating that on commercial amplitude modulated (AM) broadcasting, the frequency modulation (FM) band and television must be conceived as a national service of good quality within the geographical boundaries of the nation involved.

Fabio Leite praised the successes achieved by Cuba in the area of telecommunications despite the hostile US policy, and assured that he will personally make those results known at all executive management levels of the ITU. (Cubaminrex-Granma)

 

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