[iwar] Resolution on the Jamming of Satellite Broadcasts To Iran

[BBG.GOV]

Washington, D.C., July 15, 2003--

Whereas the Broadcasting Board of Governors' direct-to-home satellite
broadcasts of daily, televised news programs to the Iranian people
have been jammed since the approximate time of their inauguration on
Sunday July 6th, 2003;

Whereas Iranian citizens have told BBG officials that they were being
prevented from receiving intelligible reception of the Voice of
America's televised news programs;

Whereas this interference constitutes a direct and effective violation
of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights' Article
19 that guarantees individuals the right "to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Whereas this interference constitutes a deliberate effort to block the
public's access to satellite telecommunications, and as such
represents a major threat to international satellite communications;

And whereas the best information of the service provider for
transmission of televised news programming is that the source of
jamming is located near Havana, Cuba;

Now therefore, be it resolved:

That the Broadcasting Board of Governors vigorously affirms the human
rights of the Iranian people to seek and receive information and ideas;

That the Broadcasting Board of Governors strongly condemns the
deliberate and malicious interference with its legitimate effort to
impart truthful, objective, and balanced news to its Iranian audience;

That the Board of Broadcasting Governors calls upon the international
community to censure the states that have caused this interference;

That the Board of Broadcasting Governors urges such service providers
as Intelsat and Eutelsat to cease providing services to those states
that have deliberately restricted the Iranian people's access to
international broadcasting until and unless this illegal interference
with the free and open flow of international communications ends.

That the Board of Broadcasting Governors urges the Department of
State, the Federal Communications Commission and all appropriate
elements of the U.S. government to lodge an appropriate formal protest
against the government of Cuba for this unwarranted and wrongful
interference.

Adopted this 15th Day of July, 2003 by the Broadcasting Board of
Governors.

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Received on Wed Jul 16 11:35:06 2003