Busan: Two members of the official UAE delegation taking part in Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Busan, South Korea, have been selected to hold senior positions.
Engineer Nasser Bin Hammad, Senior Manager International Affairs at the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) was elected as a Vice-President of the Conference and Engineer Nasser Al Marzouqi as Vice-Chairman of the Sixth Committee responsible for overall management and administrative matters.
The conference Vice-President duty is to assist in managing the working team and coordinating efforts with the conference President in various issues and topics of discussion listed on the conference agenda also providing support in consultations between the Conference President and deputies in case of developments and emerging issues. Hammad was also elected as the official representative of the Arab Group.
“I am quite impressed to witness the active and dedicated participation by the members of the UAE delegation and their diligent endeavours towards winning significant positions in the world’s largest ICT policy-making conference often known as the Olympics of information communication technology. I am confident that engineers Nasser Bin Hammad and Nasser Al Marzouqi will spare no effort to strengthen the UAE’s prominent position at the ITU organisation,” said Mohammad Nasser Al Ganim, Director General of the TRA and head of the UAE delegation.
The conference will continue over a period of three weeks and will witness important elections where the UAE competes on the membership in the ITU Council for the third time in a row and Hammad is nominated for membership of the Radio Regulations Board.
