RTS condemns Nikolić threats

RTS chiefs have condemned threats from Tomislav Nikolić that the SRS will obstruct the broadcaster’s work.

Izvor: Tanjug

Friday, 25.07.2008.

12:17

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RTS chiefs have condemned threats from Tomislav Nikolic that the SRS will obstruct the broadcaster’s work. In a statement, the state broadcaster’s directors say that the Serb Radical Party (SRS) deputy leader has threatened the company twice in the last two days. RTS condemns Nikolic threats The first threat was that the “Bastille”, as the national broadcaster was dubbed by the opposition back in the days when the SRS were close to the government, would be set fire to. The second was the party’s call to its supporters not to pay the license fee. RTS directors say that they will not succumb to any form of pressure , be it from the government or the opposition. “It is clear to every citizen that Nikolic, like many of those who have called for a boycott of the license fee, is not in conflict with the RTS, but with the millions of viewers who confirm that RTS is their most trusted broadcaster ,” says the statement. RTS is the Serbia’s public service, and, like all European public services, it is completely independent. "Has this not been proven by the RTS’s decision to broadcast the Hague trial of SRS leader Vojislav Seselj?” the RTS statement reads. At an SRS press conference, Nikolic criticized RTS’s work and called on it to “open itself to all Serbian citizens,” because, as he put it, RTS belonged to at least “half of the population that were not pleased by the arrest of Karadzic.” Nikolic added that if this did not happen, the SRS would “do everything to stop RTS’s work.” When asked what he meant by that, Nikolic said: “It won’t be hard… You all saw what happened to ‘Bastille’.” Tomislav Nikolic (FoNet, archive)

RTS condemns Nikolić threats

The first threat was that the “Bastille”, as the national broadcaster was dubbed by the opposition back in the days when the SRS were close to the government, would be set fire to. The second was the party’s call to its supporters not to pay the license fee.

RTS directors say that they will not succumb to any form of pressure , be it from the government or the opposition.

“It is clear to every citizen that Nikolić, like many of those who have called for a boycott of the license fee, is not in conflict with the RTS, but with the millions of viewers who confirm that RTS is their most trusted broadcaster ,” says the statement.

RTS is the Serbia’s public service, and, like all European public services, it is completely independent.

"Has this not been proven by the RTS’s decision to broadcast the Hague trial of SRS leader Vojislav Šešelj?” the RTS statement reads.

At an SRS press conference, Nikolić criticized RTS’s work and called on it to “open itself to all Serbian citizens,” because, as he put it, RTS belonged to at least “half of the population that were not pleased by the arrest of Karadžić.”

Nikolić added that if this did not happen, the SRS would “do everything to stop RTS’s work.”

When asked what he meant by that, Nikolić said: “It won’t be hard… You all saw what happened to ‘Bastille’.”

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