TRA announces candidacy for top council
Also calls for the membership of the Radio Regulations Board for the UAE
Abu Dhabi: The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) announced the candidacy of the UAE for a seat in the International Telecommunication Union.
TRA also called for the membership of the Radio Regulations Board for the UAE.
The authority will press its case at the ITU-R, which will take place in the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Mexico in 2010.
The membership period is from 2011 to 2015.
The announcement came during the ITU council meeting from October 26 to 30.
The UAE participated among 46 member states on the council that represents the 191 member states of the ITU.
Under the auspices of Obaid Salem Al Za'abi, the permanent representative of the UAE to the UN Office in Geneva, the TRA organised a dinner at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva, honouring the participating delegations in the 2009 ITU council meeting.
Mohammad Nasser Al Ganem, TRA director general, stressed the importance of the step taken by the UAE to become a member of the ITU Council in 2006, clarifying the reasons behind the nomination for a seat in the council for another four years, from 2011 to 2015. Al Ganem also referred to the UAE nomination for the membership of the Radio Regulations Board of the ITU-R that consists of 12 members. The UAE has nominated Nasser Bin Hammad, senior manager for International Affairs at the TRA.
The TRA presented an action plan regarding "The council's financial matters" as per decision number 158 of the former PPC that was held in 2006 in Antalya, Turkey.
