From Walter Lippmann's CubaNews list
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations
Press Release on the radio and television aggression from the US Government against Cuba
New York, 7 May 2009
As denounced before by the Cuban Government in international fora, the successive US Administrations have resorted to their economic and technological power to undertake a true radio-electronic aggression against Cuba. First, by illegal radio broadcast, then adding television, the Cuban radio-electronic space has been permanently attacked.
Today, twenty stations broadcast to Cuba from US territory programs aimed at promoting the destruction of the constitutional order, which is a sovereign decision of the Cuban people. Three of these stations are property of the US Government: the so-called Radio and TV Martí and La Voz de las Américas. The two former receive over $30 million from the US Government budget.
At the end of March 2009, the broadcasts against Cuba reached 1 926 hours and 30 minutes a week, broadcasted by 30 frequencies using 25 stations.
In the current meeting of the UN Committee on Information, the US delegation stated they did not violate any international regulation by illegally broadcasting against Cuba. The reasons set out below prove the falseness of that statement.
These broadcasting generated from US territory directly violate the letter and infringe the spirit of several international instruments such as:
The purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and in several international instruments, including those related to the sovereign equality of all States and the non-interference in affairs of the internal jurisdiction of States.
The fundamental principles of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), expressed in the Preamble of its Constitution on the growing importance of telecommunication for the preservation of peace and the economic and social development of all States with the object of facilitating peaceful relations, international cooperation among peoples and economic and social development by means of efficient telecommunication services.
The provisions CS 197 and CS 198 of the ITU Constitution stating that all stations, whatever their object, must be effectively allocated and used in order to avoid harmful interference to communications or radio-electronic services of other member States.
The ITU Radio Regulations, in its 1990 edition and its 1994 review, stipulates in its Article 30, Section 1, numeral 2666 (current numeral 23.3 of 2004 edition), that AM for medium waves, FM or TV commercial broadcasting must be conceived as a good quality national service within the borders of the country in question.
Article 8, numeral 8.3 of the ITU Radio Regulations, establishing that the frequencies allocated and registered, recognized internationally must be taken into account by other administrations when having their own assignments in order to avoid harmful interference.
6) Article 23, numeral 23.3 of the ITU Radio Regulations, limiting TV broadcast outside national borders.
7) Article 42, numeral 42.4 of the ITU Radio Regulations, banning aircraft stations at sea level or above sea level from performing any broadcast service.
8) The ruling of the ITU Radio Regulations Board which, in its 35th meeting on December 2004, established that the US transmissions on the 213 MHz frequency resulted in harmful interference for the Cuban services and called for the US Government to take the relevant measures to eliminate them. Also, since September 2006, the ITU Radio Regulations Board has been calling upon the US Government to take measures to eliminate the interference on the 509 MHz, without receiving any response so far by the US authorities.
9) The conclusions agreed upon in the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), held in Geneva (22 October-16 November 2007), where its paragraph 6.1, item g) establishes that all radio broadcasting station on an aircraft exclusively broadcasting towards another administration’s territory without its consent, is not considered to work under the Radio Regulations.
10) The Conclusions of the ITU Radio Regulations Board held on March 2009 (Document RRB09-1/1 + Add.2), where the illegal character of transmissions from the US territory to Cuba is reiterated and the US Government is requested to take the necessary measures to put an end to this harmful interference. Specifically, last March the ITU Board concluded the following:
“The Board considered the cases of harmful interference to the broadcasting service of Cuba. Noting with regret that no progress has yet been made, the Board reiterated the relevant conclusions from its previous meeting.
With respect to the frequencies 213 MHz and 509 MHz, the Board reconfirmed its previous conclusion that the United States transmissions on these frequencies resulted in harmful interference. Noting that these two frequencies are recorded in the Master Register on behalf of the Administration of Cuba with favourable findings and are therefore protected against harmful interference, the Board instructed the Bureau to ask the United States Administration to take all necessary steps with a view to eliminating this harmful interference and to inform the Bureau on actions taken in this regard.”
Cuba, exercising its full sovereignty and independence and strictly adhering to international provisions, will continue facing this aggression against its radio-electronic space and will not give up firmly denunciating those unacceptable and illegal actions in every appropriate forum.
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WALTER LIPPMANN
Los Angeles, California
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/"Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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