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IV.

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KISË NA JAJADEGON STATEKO GATANG NE

FCO/DOT Working Party on BBC External Services Classific ion of Vernacular Services 1 December 1978

1) Services which could be most easily dispensed with:

2)

3)

French (for Europe)

German

Vietnamese

Indonesian/Malay

Thai

Maltese (discontinued 31.1.81)

Services less easily dispensed with:

Greek

Turkish

Italian (discontinued 31.1.81 except for Italian Special

projects for local re-broadcast)

Bulgarian

Finnish

Burmese

Services to be dispensed with only if absolutely

necessary:

Portuguese (For Europe and Africa)

Portuguese (For Brazil)

Spanish (For Spain) (discontinued 31.1.81 except for

Spanish local projects for re-broadcasting locally)

Persian

Somali

Swahili

Hausa

French (For Africa)

Hindi

Bengali

Urdu

Tamil

Nepali

Spanish (For Latin-American)

4) Services that should not be dispensed with:

Russian

Polish

Romanian

Hungarian

Serbo-Croat/Slovene

Czech/Slovak

Chinese

Arabic Japanese

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