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Your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues!
On behalf of the delegation of the Russian Federation let me
to express our deep appreciation to the government of Portugal
for the excellent preparation of the ITU World Telecommunication
Policy Forum in hospitable Lisbon. We thank the organizers for
the kind thoughts to us, their warm attitude and goodwill to the
delegates.
It is symbolic that the present Forum takes place in a
jubilee year marked with the 150-th anniversary of
prof.A.S.Popov, whose name is written by golden letters in the
history of the mankind as the inventor of radio. The role and
the importance of this mentioned invention is steadily
increasing when the world is going forward to the global
information society with the rampant development of the
information technologies and their penetration into all spheres
of the public life. Yesterday the participants of the Strategic
Dialog not only once mentioned this.
We have heard with a high attention and with a great
interest the Report of Dr.H.Toure, the Secretary General of the
ITU. We are convinced that the discussion and the examination of
the themes which are reflected in the Report will contribute for
the International Telecommunication Union adaptation to the
todays realia, to the enhancement and optimization of its
activity as well as to the strengthening of its leading position
as a specialized UN Agency in the telecommunication and ICT
field. I use this opportunity to mention the great positive
personal role of Mr.H.Toure as a real leader of our Union which
plays now an important role among the international
organizations developing the international policy.
At the same time we think that on the question concerning
Internet-related public policy matters the ITU has much more
abilities than to discuss in ITU Council Working Groups and to
develop the general recommendations. It is necessary to develop
the mechanism to implement these recommendations. Internet has
become a global project and for its development it is necessary
to take into account the opinions of all interested parties and
first of all those of the states. ITU should play an important
role in the questions of Internet governance as it is stated in
the World Summit on Information Society final documents. However
it is necessary to ensure the integrity, accessibility,
stability and security of the Internet network operation taking
into account multilingualism.
From our point of view the ITU should develop the principles
and the mechanisms of the Next Generation Network addressing,
numbering, naming and identification resources on international
level and identify the mechanisms of these principles
realization formalizing them in the relevant basic documents of
the Union.
We fully support the proposals concerning ICTs utilization
in the campaign against climate change and for the reduction of
the ICTs negative influence on the environment. The decisions in
the sphere of the e-government, organization of the e-meetings,
the distance learning and conduct of business will lead to the
mitigation of physical movement necessity on long distances of a
sizable number of people, this will have a positive effect on
the environment protection. The development of more
sophisticated algorithms for ICTs work, the optimization of the
already existing resource-intensive software and hardware might
be considered as another way to reduce the level of consumed
energy.
In the modern world where the global ICT networks and systems
have spread in all spheres of human activity the questions of
infosecurity and cyber security have become of a special
importance. Today no country alone is able to stand against the
emerging problems. ITU as an intergovernmental organization with
the membership which also includes more than 700 representatives
of leading operators, scientific and industrial organizations,
can and should continue to solve the most actual and important
tasks in the field of confidence and security strengthening
while using ICTs.
The International Telecommunication Regulations is one of the
basic document providing the regulations and harmonization of
the international telecommunication development. During last
more than 20 years after the ITRs adoption the serious changes
have taken place in the telecommunication/ICTs sphere including
the new technologies development and implementation and the
telecommunication market liberalization. That is why on the
basis of PP-06 Resolution 146 it is necessary to conduct the
consistent work for the preparation of the World Conference on
International telecommunication in 2012 with the task to reform
the Regulations which should respond to the actual level of
telecommunication and ICTs development.
We hope that the denoted problems this Forum will find the
solutions in the final documents of this Forum.
We are sure that the results of the Forum will actuate the
impulse to the new technologies and the new relations
development directed to the information society building where
the different human needs will be satisfied with maximum
efficiency. This is a sphere of one of the priorities for the
Russian Federation Communication Administration activity and in
this field we’ll do our best to promote our cooperation with
International Telecommunication Union as well as with
Communication Administrations of all the countries-Members of
the ITU.
Thank you.
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