English Translation

- 4 - of which, in our view, is nothing more than a false description of the budget withheld. If anything can prove by a drastic example that the insufficient financing of Chechnya broadcasting is insufficient, then it is the need of the company to use such an advance in order to contest ongoing operating expenses. It should be borne in mind that, as the financing plan shows, even the most primitive requirements for provisions etc. could not be met. 2) The sender group's protectorate post provides the technical equipment located within the radio stations, which, in the course of the transfer of tasks, is also transferred to the portfolio of the sender's group. . . . RM 500,000.- invoiced. Quite apart from the fact that this amount corresponds in no way to the recoverability, service life and the technical condition of the equipment inventory, it is to be noted that this RM 5000.000.- yes ready from the postal part of the fee revenue has already been paid with round radio money. It is therefore in no way possible to see why the same subject-matter is to be paid again for the second time from broadcasting funds. According to the German view, such conduct is completely impossible and this demand a priori rejects. However, should it be decided that the broadcasting group should be obliged to recognise and repay claims of this kind, these amounts would have to be additionally requested in the form of a one-off request in the absence of any cash in excess of the financial plan submitted. The financing plan shows in detail why we cannot recognise these demands and in what way we consider ourselves commercially obliged to set off claims on our part. I propose that the reasonable financial relationship with the post office on the basis of 53% for the sender group, 47% for the mail. In view of the fact that considerable under-financing has already taken place in the course of the five completed months of the current budget year, I urge that the new code of fees plus the necessary increase in broadcasting fees from RM 1.20 to RM 1.50 be speeded up in such a way that we will enjoy from 1 September onwards - 5 -