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International Telecommunication Union
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ITU TELECOM AMERICAS 2003 Cancelled
Geneva/Buenos Aires, 13 May 2002 — In September
2001, Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, announced
the fifth international telecommunications exhibition and forum for the Americas region, ITU TELECOM
AMERICAS 2003, to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from
Tuesday 25 to Friday 28 February 2003.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, however, the Government of the Republic of
Argentina and the International Telecommunication Union have now agreed to cancel the AMERICAS
2003 event in Argentina. ITU nonetheless remains fully committed to the
organization of an ITU TELECOM event for the Americas
region and will exert all possible efforts to ensure its success. ITU will now therefore issue a
call for bids to its Member States in the region to host the event in the year 2004 or 2005, and
will select the best offer according to standard criteria including cost, the active support of
the host country, exhibitor interest, accessibility, infrastructure and security. Information
will both be posted on the ITU TELECOM website and
announced in a press release as soon as it is available.
The International Telecommunication Union organizes the world and regional TELECOM
events to promote the benefits of telecommunications and to demonstrate recent technological
advances, as a service to ITU’s Membership and to foster the transfer of this new technology
and information to less developed countries.
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Forthcoming ITU TELECOM
events
ITU will be organizing its sixth regional ITU TELECOM
event for the Asia-Pacific region, ASIA 2002,
in December. Following the enormously successful ASIA
2000 event, ASIA 2002 will also be hosted by
the Government of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong SAR, and will for
the second time be taking place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC).
The event will be held from Monday 2 to Saturday 7 December, and is expected to draw
more than 50,000 attendees.
Completing the current four year cycle will be the Olympics of
telecommunications events, ITU TELECOM WORLD
2003, which will build on the strengths of the giant TELECOM
99 + INTERACTIVE 99 event which took place in
Geneva in October 1999. WORLD 2003 will take
place at the newly expanded Palexpo venue in Geneva from 12 to 18 October 2003. |
For further information on the ITU TELECOM
events, please click here or contact:
TELECOM
Press Service
Tel: +41 22 730 6047
Fax: +41 22 730 5939
E-mail: telecom.press@itu.int
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