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The Regular Meeting of the CITEL Assembly is held
every four years to serve as a Forum in which the
highest telecommunications authorities of the CITEL Member States will
share opinions and experiences and make appropriate decisions to
direct their activities towards achieving the CITEL objectives of
facilitating and promoting, by all means available to it, the
continuing development of telecommunications in this hemisphere.
These Assemblies allow to, among others:
- Establishing the policies for achieving the objectives and
functions set out for CITEL
- Electing the members of COM/CITEL.
- Establishing the Permanent Consultative Committees.
The Fourth Assembly of CITEL will be held in San
José, Costa Rica, February 20 to 23, 2006.
Recognizing that the Assembly of CITEL is an
ideal occasion to serve as a forum to conduct dialogue among the
different telecommunication players to establish the frameworks
required by new telecommunication services and technologies and to
examine any other general policy matter, the XV
meeting of COM/CITEL approved to hold a Special Meeting of the
Assembly comprised of representatives of governments and the
private sector on the afternoon of February 20, 2006. This
Special Meeting will discuss matters of common interest in the area of
telecommunication regulation, with a view to producing a series of
recommendations intended to direct CITEL’s future work.
Also, the XV meeting of the Permanent Executive
Committee of CITEL (COM/CITEL) indicated that it is advisable
for Ministers of State and highest authorities with responsibility for
telecommunication policy in each Administration to meet in order to,
based on examination of the telecommunication environment, contribute
their visions and policies for the future. It was
then decided to hold, on the morning of February 21, 2006,
a roundtable of high authorities with responsibility for
telecommunication policy in each Administration.
COM/CITEL approved the
draft agenda and
calendar taking into account what was just explained.
The Chair of COM/CITEL, in coordination with
the Vice Chair of COM/CITEL, the Chairs of the PCCs and the Chair of
the WG on the Strategic Plan of CITEL, are
preparing draft agendas for the Assembly’s
Special Session and roundtable of high authorities, taking into
account such suggestions as may be received from the Member States.
Each Member State is entitled to send a delegation to the CITEL
Assembly. Also, the following may be
represented by observers at a meeting of the CITEL Assembly with the
right to voice but without vote:
- Permanent Observers to the Organization.
- Subject to COM/CITEL's approval, those American States which are
not Members of the Organization and which have asked to participate
in the meeting.
- Subject to COM/CITEL's approval, those Non-American States that
are Members of the United Nations or its specialized Agencies and
which have asked to participate in the meeting.
- Inter American specialized organizations and entities of the
Organization, and Inter-American intergovernmental regional
organizations.
- The United Nations and its specialized agencies.
- International and national organizations that are parties to
agreements or arrangements establishing relations of cooperation
with the Organization, with its organs, organizations or agencies,
when such agreements or arrangements provide for participation of
observers.
- Subject to COM/CITEL's approval, those international, regional,
subregional and national agencies and organizations that are
involved in telecommunications activities in the region and which
have asked to participate in the meeting.
- The Associate Members of the Permanent Consultative Committees.
Subject to COM/CITEL's approval and in consultation with the
government of the host country, other persons or institutions as may
be deemed advisable, may attend the CITEL Assembly as special guests,
as defined in the Regulations.
The XXXV meeting if the OAS General Assembly (June
2005, United States) took
note
with satisfaction of the progress made with
preparations to organize the fourth regular meeting of the CITEL
Assembly and requested to ensure
participation at this event by the highest
governmental telecommunications authorities.
The next numbers of info @ CITEL will have more information of the
progress in the preparation.
Clovis Baptista
Executive Secretary
CITEL
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