The UN Secretary-General stood up for the freedom of the media after the publication of Kiev " black list " correspondents

Secretary-General of the United Nations ban Ki-moon speaks for ensuring free access of reporters to information necessary for objective coverage of events in Ukraine, said its Commissioner Stefan Dujarric.
He explained the text of the list of authorized Russian media, denied entry to Ukraine, ITAR-TASS." the Secretary General calls for the full freedom of access to correspondents, which is extremely important for objective information transmission, " said Dujarric. In the " black list ", formed by the National Council on television and radio broadcasting of Ukraine, were 49 workers in the Russian media, and among them, Authorized guide and correspondent channels " 1st channel "RTR-planet ", VGTRK, NTV Mir, TVCI, " Russia ", " Russia-1 ", " Russia-24 ", NTV, " Petersburg 5 "REN-TV " Russia Today ", TVC, " life news ", " Star ". Remember, July 23, the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine has prepared a list of Russian correspondents, against whom it is proposed to impose punishment. Then in the list was the General Director of " First channel " Konstantin Ernst, General Director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeyev, NTV Director General Vladimir Kulistikov, manual TVC and " 5th channel ", chief editor of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan and others. In early August, after the incident at the concert Ani Lorak in Odessa, where about 200 armed with batons active participants " Right sector " and " Freedom " tore her performance, Advisor to the head of the interior Ministry of Ukraine Anton Geraschenko said that " the Department is preparing a list for the prohibition of entry into Ukraine of about five hundred Russian leaders, approved the annexation of the Crimea and Ukraine. In response, the deputies of the state Duma from the Communist party made an offer to make a black list of the same number of artists of Ukraine.

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