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8.

The Cable

representatives to

and

Wireless Group

has

sent

of

Parties (Agreement,

attend meetings of the Assembly

Article VII), as part of the UK

delegation, and to Meetings of Signatories

(Agreement,

Article VIII) and the Board of Governors (Agreement,

Article IX), as part of the delegation of the UK

Signatory. The Group also sends representatives to

meetings of INTELSAT at operational level, either as a

user of the space segment, or as part of the delegation of

the UK Signatory. These include meetings of the Board's

Advisory Committees, Special Committees, Budget and

Accounts Review Committee, Operational Representatives

Conference and Global Traffic meetings. A record of

attendances is at Annex B.

9.

A user of the INTELSAT Space segment does not

need to be a Signatory. However, the first part of

Article 14(a) of the Operating Agreement provides that the

application for approval of an earth station to utilize

the INTELSAT space segment must be submitted to INTELSAT

by the Signatory designated by the Party in whose

territory the earth station is located. The second part

of the Article, which allows applications to be made by a

duly authorised telecommunications entity, is not relevant

in the case of Hong Kong because it relates only to earth

stations located in territory not under the jurisdiction

of a Party. Similarly, under the first part of Article

15(a) of the Operating Agreement,

any application for