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FCO BROADCASTING PRIORITIES
ANNEX
The FCO Prescription Committee agreed ranking of priorities
of the BBC External Services in terms of importance to the
FCO and the FCO information effort at 24 April 1986:
High Priority
World Service in English
Russian
Polish
Hungarian
Romanian
Bulgarian
Czech/Slovak
Medium Priority
B
Arabic
Hindi
Mandarin
Pashto
Persian
French for Africa
Spanish for Latin America
Portuguese for Brazil
Indonesian/Malay
Swahili
Hausa
Tamil
German for GDR
Vietnamese
Cantonese
Low Priority
Urdu
Bengali
Nepali
Thai
French for Europe
(German for FRG)
Turkish
Somali
Greek
Burmese
Japanese
Portuguese for Africa
Finnish
Serbo-Croat/Slovene,
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