New York: Cuba has accused the US of having increased funds to promote a "radio-electronic war" against the island nation.
During debates at the UN General Assembly´s information committee, Cuban Ambassador Rodrigo Malmierca noted that the US' 2006 budget allocated $37 million for anti-Cuban propaganda through its Radio-TV Marti, $10 million more than in 2004, Cuba's Prensa Latina news agency reported.
He said the US bombards Cuba with 2,107 hours of radio-TV transmissions every week via 24 different frequencies - in blatant violation of the regulations established by the International Frequency Registration Board of the International Union of Telecommunications.
Malmierca further said that of the 18 radio channels broadcasting radio programmes against the Cuban revolution, 12 were beamed directly to the island.
Of those, The Voice of America and Radio-TV Marti are owned by the US government, the ambassador pointed out.
"Despite our constant denunciations, the US continues its radio-electronic war against our country, an essential part of its unhealthy policy aimed at destroying the Cuban Revolution," stated Malmierca.
He added that in its hope to destroy the revolution, Washington had strengthened transmission power, improved antennas, invaded transmission bands and, for the last two years, used a C-130 plane as a platform to send TV Marti signals.
However, he stated that these actions had failed thanks to the skills of Cuban technicians and specialists, who successfully interfered with the TV transmissions and most of the radio broadcasts.
