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Annex A
BBC WORLD SERVICE: FCO FRIORITIES (REVISED NOVEMBER 1988)
FCO ranking of World Service prescribed activities in terms of foreign policy objectives and priorities is sat out below. Within categories, languages are listed in alphabetical order. Changes are underlined.
TOP PRIORITY
World Service in English
HIGH PRIORITY
Arabic
Pashto
Bulgarian
Czech
Hindi
Hungarian Mandarin
Persian Polish
Romanian
Russian
English by Radio
MEDIUM PRIORITY
Bengali
Burmese
Nepali
Slovak
Swahili
Cantonese
French for Africa
German (for GDR)
Hausa
Indonesian/Malay
Tamil
Thai
Urdu
Vietnamese
Topical Tapes
LOW PRIORITY
French for Europe Finnish
German (for FRG) Greek
Japanese
Portuguese for Europe and Africa Portuguese for Brazil
Serbo-Croat/Slovene
Somali
Spanish for Latin America
Turkish
Transcription Service
Special Projects in Spanish and Italian
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