His Excellency Mesut Yilmaz Prime Minster of the Republic of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 15 October 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the jamming of transmissions from the London-based Kurdish-language satellite television station, Med TV, by the Turkish authorities. We […]

H. E. Yevgeni M. Primakov Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Moscow Russia Vienna, 13 October 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the forthcoming case of Grigori Pasko, who has been imprisoned since November 1997 in Vladivostok and will be going on trial on charges of treason on Wednesday, […]

H.E. Slobodan Milosevic President of Yugoslavia Belgrade Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vienna, 9 October 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the latest Serbian government measures against the independent media, including the order to broadcasters to stop airing foreign news programmes hostile to Yugoslavia […]

His Excellency Hafez al-Assad President c/o H. E. Ambassador Riad Siage Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic Vienna Austria Vienna, 22 September 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) the global network of editors and media executives, is most concerned about the fate of Nizar Nayyouf, a journalist and human rights activist, who is […]