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M. Pandžić, Some experiences and problems... Arh. vjesn., god. 37(1994) str. 69-78 has suggessted action trying to take the initiative in helping to reconstruct TV archival material or audio-visual material from other stations in Europe and elsewhere. To gather these material for some future recovery of Sarajevo TV Archive. Since other archives could become a victim of such incidents, he proposes some recommendations to help the TV Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina which may be used as a framework for TV Archives in other parts of the world facing similar risks. These are as follows. - Lists of the AV documents containing war material from Bosnia, produced by their "parent" TV station, should be made by all archives. After the war the material should be given to the TV archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina. - Copying should be allowed free of charge after the selection of the relevant AV material. In this case the Bosnian TV archives should not sell material thus obtained. - Cassettes with recorded war material could be donated by the more prosperous TV archives. - The appropriate format would be arranged with the recipient TV archive. - Special attention should be given to the news services such as ITN, CNN, WTN, Reuters etc, whose reporters from Bosnia have produced some brilliant war coverage. Valuable assistance could be received from these companies. - The representatives of the world organisation of FIAT/IFTA could visit the archives which have suffered to ascertain ways and means of providing help judged from first hand experience. - Appeal for rescue funds should be launched and appeals made to UNESCO and the world manufacturers of video material and television equipment. - Colleagues from the affected archives should be able to attend professional seminars free of charge, organised by the more developed archives in neighbouring countries (RAI or ORE, in this case). Up to 1993, the Czech TV Archives from Prague has responded positively to appeals made by the TV Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the meanwhile a worldwide action was organized by Unesco for protection of cultural literary heritage under the title "Memory of the world". They have had a meeting in Pultusk (near Warszava), Poland in 1993, and in this year the organizer has sent to all member states of ICA a questionnaire asking for precise statistical data on all losses and damages on archival and other literary material, on whatever place it was kept, from the very beginning of 20th c. up to nowadays. Also every representative of the states has given on the meeting last year in Poland, a list with the concise data of the most precious archival literary material of highest international or national category of its value. Such a survey, on a world scale, both of the most precious archival literary heritage as well as of the heaviest losses and damages in this century, can give us the necessary perspective view of the problem, so to be in better possibility to help the governments in their pursuit of protecting their national, cultural values, naturally also of some international value and also on whatever media it can be (audiovisual and other). 75