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FCO BROADCASTING PRIORITIES
ANNEX C
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
Arabic
Hindi
Mandarin
Pashto
Persian
French for Africa
Swahili
Spanish for Latin America
Hausa
Portuguese for Brazil
Tamil
Indonesian/Malay
Urdu
German for GDR
Vietnamese
Cantonese
Low Priority
Bengali
Nepali
Thai
French for Europe
(German for FRG)
Turkish
Somali
Finnish
Serbo-Croat/Slovene
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Greek
Burmese
Japanese
Portuguese for Africa