United Nations Radio

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The United Nations Radio (UN Radio) is a radio program of the United Nations . It was founded on February 13, 1946 by a resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations and is now available worldwide in several languages ​​(including the official languages ​​of the UN).

The League of Nations had already broadcast programs under the name Radio Nations from 1929 on the Dutch short-wave transmitter PCJJ and then from 1932 to 1939 via its own transmitter in Prangins on Lake Geneva . In 1943/44 a station called United Nations Radio broadcast from Algiers , the editing of which was with the American Office of War Information and the British Political Warfare Executive and which had no connection to the (not yet founded) UN.

In November 2011, the General Conference of UNESCO declared February 13th World Radio Day to commemorate the founding of the station .

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  1. ↑ A / RES / 13 (I) , Annex I, 10.
  2. ^ Joseph Avenol , Jan Christiaan Smuts : The future of the League: broadcast messages given over Radio-Nations, the League of Nations broadcasting station . Geneva 1938.
  3. ^ Conrad Pütter: Radio against the "Third Reich" . Munich 1986, pp. 248-250.
  4. ↑ World Radio Day: UNESCO emphasizes the importance of community radios . German UNESCO Commission, February 2012.