​03 February 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : Over the past fifty years, the IARC has successfully pursued the dream of a handful of ITU radio engineers to create the world’s first international amateur radio club – a club which served as a model amateur radio station operating to the very highest standards...

​02 February 2012, Beirut, Lebanon : It is a tremendously important conference, not just for ITU, but for the global ICT sector, and I am looking forward to the debates there which will shape the next 20 years of the most exciting business in the world – the business of ICTs...

31 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : Cybersecurity and cybercrime affect each and every agency and programme of the United Nations. As we push forward the UN agenda for peace and safety, we must remember that cyberpeace and cybersecurity are part of this...​

23 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : The honour of opening ITU’s busy calendar of major events in 2012 falls to the Radiocommunication Sector, and this year’s WRC promises to be the most important and well-attended edition ever – with over 3,000 registered participants, and more than 2,000 individual proposals...​

​20 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : It is a testament to ITU’s important place in the world that the discussion surrounding UTC and the leap second has been taking place, here, at RA-12, and it will be very interesting to see how this issue is eventually resolved at RA-15 and WRC-15 – because I am convinced, with the power of ITU’s membership, that this is indeed an issue we can indeed resolve, together...

16 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : This is the first Radiocommunication Assembly under the new Director of the Radiocommunication Bureau, Mr François Rancy, and I would like to commend him and his staff for their excellent preparatory work and organization of this event...
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10 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : TSAG has an important role in steering the work of the Standardization Sector towards this honourable goal.Under the sound guidance of our excellent chairman Bruce Gracie – and chairmen past – TSAG has helped to keep ITU-T well on-course with regard to the key objectives established for the Union...​