British Foreign Secretary William Hague has issued a reassurance about the future of BBC World Service broadcasts to Burma. He told the Foreign Affairs Select Committee that the BBCWS could not expect to escape the cost-cutting being imposed across Government and would not rule out the possibility that some services would be lost. But he insisted that targeting Burma would “not be a very good way of saving money” and that the impact of a particular service on promoting human rights would be a factor in identifying savings.
(Source: Broadcast)
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