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of China (PRC) is also a party to the Agreement. The
Signatory of the PRC is the Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications.
Current Participation
5.
The UK
Government consults the Hong Kong
Government on matters relating to
relating to INTELSAT
INTELSAT which affect
the interests of Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Government has
not in the past sent representatives to attend meetings of
the Assembly of Parties (Agreement, Article VII) as
members of the UK delegation. With the increasing
importance to Hong Kong of the work of the Organisation.
the time may soon come when there will be a practical need
for the Hong Kong Government to have a representative on
the UK delegation at such meetings.
reasons for this.
There are three
First, Hong Kong is developing into a
hub or centre for
international telecommunications.
Second, Hong Kong has
management of satellites
more interest in the use and
over the Pacific and Indian
Oceans than does the United Kingdom. Third, the
development by a Hong Kong registered company of a
regional satellite system in Asia with the possibility of
carrying international traffic would be likely to involve
conclusions within INTELSAT. In relation to each of these
situations the Hong Kong Government is best placed to
represent within the UK delegation Hong Kong's needs and
priorities. There is also the point that after 1997 the