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International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
The Legal Background
The International Telecommunication
Union (ITU)
was
established by the International Telecommunication Convention
signed at Madrid in 1932. This Convention was replaced by a
subsequent Conventions. The current version of
number
of
Convention
is the
the
Telecommunication Convention
International
on
6 November
1982. Appendix
I gives
the
signed at Nairobi
up-to-date list of
of all signatories and contracting parties to
list includes all the countries with
this Convention. This
dealings concerning
telecommunications
which Hong Kong has
under the Convention. The contracting parties are bound by the
current Convention by virtue of Article 48, and signatories
which have not ratified the Convention enjoy certain benefits
by virtue of Article 45. There are still some countries which
remain bound by earlier versions of the Convention. These
earlier Conventions therefore still govern the relations
between those countries and the United Kingdom. Accordingly,
they still apply to Hong Kong.
significance of this is already small
practical
the However,
and, it is likely to
diminish. It is not known whether the countries concerned will
by 1 July 1997 have become parties to
become parties to the current Convention,
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