Ministry: no broadcast application for Ukraine's 1st Channel received

Minister of Ukraine Information Policy, Yury Stets, stated in December that the broadcast of the Ukrainian channel in Belarus will start at the end of January 2015.

Documents for permission to broadcast the First National Channel of Ukraine have not yet come. Euroradio learned about it from the deputy head of the Ministry of Information Electronic Media Department Alyaksandr Kurylovich.

Kurylovich: "There have been no application to the Information Ministry for permission to distribute this channel by operators. However, the Information Ministry reviews all the documents quickly enough, and for our part we want to help all the new channels. Especially if such media are quite friendly to our country."

He also told Euroadio that it is some Belarusian telecommunications operator that is to submit the relevant documents to the Ministry of Information, and not the first channel: "Telecom operators come to us and for each separate channel they receive a permit. After that they can distribute it. "Ministry of Information does not know which Belarusian telecommunications operator will undertake the distribution of the channel in Ukraine and when this might happen.

Agreement to broadcast in our country the First National Channel of Ukraine was reached during the meeting between Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Poroshenko in Kiev on December 21. And on December 23 the Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine Yury Stets wrote on his page in Facebook: "Today I had a telephone conversation with a colleague from the Ministry of Information of Belarus. We agreed to solve and implement in the near future all the technical and logistical issues to start the broadcast of the Ukrainian channel in the territory of Belarus already in January."

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