VOA in albanian language will be closed

Broadcasting Board of Governors , the U.S. government agency that oversees Voice of America , has published details of the budget proposal for 2015, which provides for the elimination of programs in the languages ​​of the Balkans and increases costs for Asia and Africa .

Broadcasting Board of Governors is asking Congress for 721 million budget in 2015 , a decrease of $ 10 million from this year's budget that captures 731 million dollars . Agency officials say the goal is to create software for the new generation audience of viewers through the media that global listeners and viewers are using more and more .

The budget request for 2015 includes initiatives for video broadcasting platforms for youth and digital platforms for Cambodia , Vietnam and Burma .
For China , the Board of Governors plans to increase the use of social media and programs to combat Internet censorship .
The Board is planning to create a new satellite TV channel and a radio station in the Sahel region of north-central Africa . Will open a new service in the Lingala language of the Democratic Republic of Congo .

VOA programs for learning English is expected to expand.

But the 2015 budget would eliminate language services that broadcast programs for Albania , Bosnia - Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia . Broadcasting services for Azerbaijan , Georgia , Iran , and Uzbekistan will be reduced . Even broadcasting to Cuba will suffer major cuts .
The proposal for the 2015 budget anticipates closing the VOA offices in Jerusalem and Houston .
Dave Allison , the incumbent president of the union that represents many VOA employees , said that eliminating these services , Voice of America is " withdrawn " from its historic mission that started in 1942 . He said that programs for employees Balkans eyes welled with tears as they learned that their services face elimination .