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Azerbaijan becomes member of ITSO Advisory Committee

30 March 2007 16:21 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan has become the member of the Advisory Committee of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization.
Azerbaijanâ€™s Communications and Information Technologies Ministry Officer Bakhtiyar Mammadov told APA-Economics that the decision was made at the 31st Assembly of Parties of International Telecommunications Satellite Organization held on March 20-23 in Paris.
In 1964 the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO), previously known as INTELSAT, was formed by a group of nations to join the United Kingdom in 1964 to establish a global communications satellite system. ITSO is an intergovernmental organization that establishes that communications satellites should be available to the nations of the world as soon as practicable on a global and on-discriminatory basis. It also incorporates the "Outer Space Treaty," which states that outer space shall be used for the benefit and in the interest of all countries. The highest decision making body in ITSO is the Assembly of Parties. In 2000 the Assembly approved the legal instruments and framework necessary to create a commercial and pro-competitive company named Intelsat Ltd. head quartered in Bermuda (UK Overseas Territory) and is operationally based in Washington D.C. Intelsat Ltd. providing the space segment capacity in accordance with the core principles of global coverage and lifeline connectivity and non-discriminatory access. ITSO is successful in providing high quality and reliable space segment capacity for public telecommunications services, including telephony, data, video and Internet connectivity, to more than 200 countries and territories, no matter their location, size or level of development. The current Assembly comprises 148 member countries and meets at least every two years. ITSO is headed by the Director General responsible to the Assembly of Parties. An advisory committee comprised of representatives of 19 member countries (the UK is one) provides consultative advice to the Director General. The United Kingdom and United States are the two countries selected by the Organization to manage licensing issues. /APA-Economics/