RADIO UNMEE STARTS BROADCASTING IN ERITREA

UNMEE’s Public Information Office has successfully launched its first radio programme, which was broadcast over the Eritrean airwaves at 13:30 on 16 January.

The programme is produced in four languages: English, Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic.

Radio UNMEE’s programme can be heard on Channel I, 945 KHz MW, from 13:30 to 14:30 on Tuesdays, and on Channel II, 837 KHz MW, from 14:00 to 15:00. At the same times, the programme can be heard on SW, 41 meter band, Channel I, at 7100 KHz, and Channel II, at 7175 KHz. The programmes are repeated every Wednesday from 10:00-11:00 on all channels.

Radio UNMEE will feature news of the latest developments from the peacekeeping mission, and important markers in the unfolding peace process such as the prisoner of war exchange. Additionally, Radio UNMEE will focus on humanitarian issues such as the situation of internally displaced people, and keep listeners informed about the ongoing mine awareness and demining programmes.

The first programme was introduced by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ambassador Legwaila Joseph Legwaila, who is chief of UNMEE.

Radio UNMEE has always intended to broadcast its programmes in Eritrea and in Ethiopia, in English and translated into the three major national languages. Radio UNMEE is ready to broadcast a parallel programme on Radio Ethiopia, but awaits final word from the Minister of Foreign Affairs concerning UNMEE's radio access.

In Ethiopia the broadcast languages are Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya, in addition to English.

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For additional information contact the UNMEE Public Information Offices: Addis Ababa, phone 251-1-443396 (e-mail, walkera@un.org); Asmara, phone: 291-1-151908 (e-mail: kellyb@un.org)

Maintained by the Peace and Security Section of the Department of Public Information in cooperation with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. (c) United Nations 2001

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