Status of Palestine in ITU
The Plenipotentiary Conference of the International
Telecommunication Union (Minneapolis, 1998),
recalling
a) the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights;
b) Resolution A/52/250 of the United Nations General
Assembly relating to the participation of Palestine in the work of the United
Nations;
c) Resolutions 6 and 32 of the Plenipotentiary
Conference (Kyoto, 1994);
d) Resolution 18 of the World Telecommunication
Development Conference (Valletta, 1998),
considering
a) that the basic instruments of the Union have as a
purpose to strengthen peace and security in the world by means of
international cooperation and better understanding among peoples;
b) that to achieve the above purpose, ITU needs to have
a universal character,
considering further
that many, but not all, ITU Member States recognize Palestine
as a State,
resolves
that pending any further change in the status of Palestine in
ITU, the following shall apply:
1) the provisions of the Administrative Regulations, and
related resolutions and recommendations, shall be applied to the Palestinian
Authority in the same manner as they are applied to administrations as defined
in No. 1002 of the Constitution, and the General Secretariat and the three
Bureaux shall act accordingly, in particular in relation to the international
access code, call signs and the processing of frequency notification
assignments;
2) Palestine may participate in all ITU conferences,
assemblies and meetings as an observer, with the rights that are attributed to
an observer as defined in No. 1002 of the Convention, and in treaty-making
conferences with the following additional rights:
- the right to raise points of order related to the
proceedings on Palestinian and Middle East issues, provided that the right
to raise such a point of order shall not include the right to challenge
the decision of the presiding officer;
- the right to co-sponsor draft resolutions and
decisions on Palestinian and Middle East issues; such draft resolutions
and decisions shall only be put to vote upon request from a Member State;
3) the Palestinian delegation shall be seated immediately
after Member States.
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