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TOKYO - Japan's leading TV-TBS and TV-NHK stations recently broadcast 30-minute programmes on environmental damage caused by NATO's March 24-June 10 aggression on Yugoslavia.
A TV-TBS crew, who visited Yugoslavia in late August, stressed that NATO had used depleted uranium during the bombing of the country, highlighting its consequences on the environment and the population's health.
The TV station also ran an interview with Serbian Environment Minister Branislav Blazic.
The crew has also visited the United States to interview veterans who have developed various diseases following their participation in the Gulf War where they used depleted uranium-charged ammunition.
In its satellite news programme, the TV-NHK station said that reports on amounts of and locations where depleted uranium had been used in Yugoslavia were not available and that, consequently, this made more difficult the assessment of the damage caused.
The head of the U.N. mission for estimating environmental effects of NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia had issued a televised appeal to NATO to provide immediately all necessary information, warning against environmental pollution in several of Serbia's towns including Pancevo, Novi Sad, Bor and Kragujevac.