UNION INTERNATIONALE DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS
INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
UNIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE TELECOMUNICACIONES
 


Regional Telecommunication 
Development Conference for Asia 
and the Pacific
Singapore, 10 - 15 May 1993

CLOSING ADDRESS 

by 
Dr Pekka TARJANNE
Secretary-General of the ITU
Mr Chairman of our Conference,
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Friends


	The first Regional Telecommunication Development Conference for Asia and the 
Pacific is coming to an end.

	The Conference has adopted 15 Resolutions and 4 Recommendations - an 
excellent working ground for the next months and years. I'm happy to be able 
to state that this output is clearly action-oriented and that the totality of 
the Resolutions can be considered to be a balanced action plan.
Of course, we all have our favorites whether favorite companions, favorite 
cuisine or favorite resolutions - for some it is the strategies, the 
policies, the coordination - for others, some specific concrete projects such 
as the regional propagation measurement campaign or broadcasting technology 
transfer. For me, my favorite is the follow-up! 

	The Conference will not be worth much unless we ensure that the follow-up 
mechanisms are efficient and able to produce real results  - concrete 
telecommunications development for the people of this region. I have an 
appeal to all of you here today - to 40 countries, 14 regional and 
international organizations and more than 250 participants including many 
from private companies.

	Please don't wait for others to go ahead and implement the results. Let's 
compete in showing good example, let's push each other to make sure that all 
of us can look back at this exercise with satisfaction and pride.
In the ministerial panel yesterday, it was pointed out that the next - the 
second - Regional Telecommunication Development Conference for Asia and the 
Pacific should be prepared and organized in a somewhat different way. I 
certainly agree.
	
	With the first cycle ending now and leading to the first World 
Telecommunication Development Conference in Buenos Aires in March 1994, we 
have quite a different task ahead for the next cycle 1994-98 and in 
particular for the second Regional Telecommunication Development Conference 
for Asia and the Pacific, probably in early 1997! Potential host countries 
should start thinking seriously about this, remembering that according to 
relevant ITU decisions development conferences should be, as this one has 
been, synchronized with the corresponding Asia Telecom events, i.e. with Asia 
Telecom 97 Exhibition and its Forum. I look ahead with great enthusiasm and 
optimism. Let's decide already now to make 97 an even greater success than 
93!

	Let me conclude by expressing my warmest thanks to everybody, all of you - in 
particular our hosts: the people of Singapore, Singapore Telecom, the 
Telecommunication Authority of Singapore and the Government of Singapore. 
You, Mr Chairman, symbolize for us all of Singapore - you have led us in a 
wonderful and efficient way. That is why I am proud to offer you a token of 
our appreciation: the 125th commemorative silver medal of the ITU!