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International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation

(INTELSAT)

Background

agreements, which entered into

The two basic

force on 12 February 1973 are :

(1) Agreement Relating to

the

International

Telecommunications

Satellite

Organisation

"INTELSAT" (the "Agreement").

(2) Operating Agreement Relating to the International

Telecommunications

Satellite

Organisation

2.

"INTELSAT" (the "Operating Agreement").

construction,

The Agreement established the International

Telecommunications Satellite Organisation (INTELSAT)

(Agreement, Article II(a)). Its main purpose is to

continue and carry forward on a definitive basis the

design, development,

establishment,

operation and maintenance

maintenance of the space segment of the

global commercial telecommunications satellite system, as

originally established under the provisions of the Interim

Agreement and the

the Special Agreement of 1964 (Agreement,

Article II(a)). INTELSAT's primary objective is

objective is further

defined as "the provision, on a commercial basis, of the

space segment required for international public

of high quality and

reliability to be available on a non-discriminatory basis

telecommunications

services