NP/93-1
1 March 1993
Original: English 
News Update
Membership
Three new Members have joined the ITU since the beginning of the year:
·	Georgia on 7 January 1993
·	Slovakia on 23 February 1993
·	Kazakhstan on 23 February 1993
As of 23 February 1993, the ITU has 176 Members.
Implementation of new telecommunication codes for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Moldova
The telephone and data transmission codes of Estonia (372 and 248 respectively) will enter into effect on 1 March 1993 and their telex code (537) on 1 May 1993. Latvia has indicated that their telephone code (371) has been implemented as from 1 February 1993. Lithuania has implemented its telephone code (370) as from 15 February 1993 (except with countries of the former USSR) and Moldova has put into effect its telephone code (373) as from 15 January 1993 (except with Romania and the countries of the former USSR). 
For a complete list of telephone, telex and data transmission codes assigned to countries of the former USSR, please refer to Information Note to the press NP/92-1 of 30 September 1992. It should be noted that no calendar for implementing these codes has been set. Each country informs the ITU on the date of implementation after the necessary work is carried out on each network.