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INTERNATIONAL

Annex A

Handed over to the Chinese side on 1.2.91

LECOMMUNICATION UNION

AND CONVENTION, NICE 1999

3peaking Note

CONSTITUTI

TION

At JLG V, the two sides reached agreement on Hong Rong's continued participation after 30

June 1997 in the

International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which was

established

by

the

International

Telecommunication

Convention signed at Madrid in 1932. The current version

of the Convention was signed at Nairobi on 6 November 1982

(the Nairobi Convention),

2.

ITU, held in

A Plenipotentiary Conference of the

Nice from 23 May to 29 June 1989, decided that the Nairobi

Convention should be revised and replaced by a new

(the Nice Constitution and

into force 30 days after 55

their instrument

Constitution

and a Convention

Convention), which will enter

ITU

members

have deposited

ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

of

It is

expected that the Nice Constitution and Convention will

enter into force towards the end of 1991.

3.

The United Kingdom intends to ratify the Nice

Constitution and Convention and proposes to do SO in respect of Hong Kong.

4.

The main

and Convention are

changes found in the Nice Constitution

(a)

the

Nice Constitution

sets

out fundamental

principles whilst the Convention sets

sets out detailed

and provisions on procedural

procedural matters. This

amendments to the Constitution and to the

rules

enables

CONFIDENTAL