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The Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) taking place in Busan, South Korea, announced selecting two members of the official delegation representing the United Arab Emirates to hold senior positions within the conference committees in charge of managing different activities, coordinating meetings and setting the ITU strategic plan for the next four years. Engineer Nasser Bin Hammad, Senior Manager International Affairs at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) was elected as a Vice President of the Conference and Engineer Nasser Marzouqi as Vice Chairman of the Sixth Committee responsible for overall management and administrative matters.
The Conference Vice President duty is to assist in managing the working team and coordinating efforts with the Conference President in various issues and topics of discussion listed on the conference agenda also providing support in consultations between the Conference President and deputies in case of developments and emerging issues. Engineer Nasser Bin Hammad was also elected as the official representative of the Arab Group.
The ITU Sixth Committee reviews the draft Strategic Plan and other reports and proposals related to the Strategic Plan and examines relevant reports and proposals for the Union General Management, in particular the financial and human resources aspects and submitted reports by other committees and working groups. It also prepares the draft for the financial policies and financial plan for the period 2016-2019, recommends to the Plenary all appropriate actions related to the Union’s activities, and escalade to the concerned committees matters requiring amendments to the Constitution, Convention and the General Rules.
"I am quite impressed to witness the active and dedicated participation by the members of the UAE delegation and their diligent endeavors towards winning significant positions in the world’s largest ICT policy-making conference often known as the Olympics of information communication technology. I am confident that engineers Nasser Bin Hammad and Nasser al-Marzouqi will spare no effort to strengthen the UAE’s prominent position at the ITU organization,” commented HE Mohamed Nasser Al Ghanim, Director General of the TRA and head of the UAE delegation.
“The leading position occupied by the UAE at the ITU reflects the empowerment strategy adopted by the TRA management to allow national cadres to serve their country in all possible areas and at all levels. I hope that this global platform will be an important milestone that enables us to dedicate our efforts for best serving our nation and the TRA,” said Eng. Nasser Bin Hammad.
The conference will continue over a period of three weeks and will witness important elections where the UAE competes on the membership in the ITU Council for the third time in a row and Engineer Nasser Bin Hammad is nominated for membership of the Radio Regulations Board.
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