Belsat Again Applies for Accreditation

«This time we filed the appli­ca­tion for accred­i­ta­tion of not the whole cor­re­spon­dent point, but rather of sep­a­rate cor­re­spon­dents and cam­era­men. The doc­u­ments have been com­piled accord­ing to leg­is­la­tion, so there are no for­mal grounds to decline,» says the offi­cial rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the TV chan­nel Ali­ak­sei Min­chonak.

The chan­nel has already received three refusals to accred­it the cor­re­spon­dent point in Min­sk. It was a vicious cir­cle: last time the Min­istry of For­eign Affairs argued that the chan­nel’s employ­ees had already vio­lat­ed the law by work­ing with­out accred­i­ta­tion. 

The Bel­sat TV satel­lite chan­nel has broad­cast since Decem­ber 10, 2007. It is a unit of the Pol­ish TV, its edi­to­r­i­al office is based in War­saw, how­ev­er most mate­ri­als relate to Belarus.