ITU unable to prevent illegal activity of Garabagh Telecom

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Nov 26 2004

Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary General of the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), visited Baku on Thursday to attend a conference on global
information communication technologies.

Utsumi told a news conference that he has come to Baku for the first
time and that the priority activities of the ITU, which has been
operating for over 140 years include standardization of technologies,
distribution of frequencies and regulation of related issues.

Asked about the existing problems related to the illegal activity of
the Garabagh Telecom Company in Upper Garabagh, Utsumi said that the
Union has no special mechanism to address the problem and that any
decisions are made after they are agreed upon by the ITU member states.

“ITU coordinates relationship among member countries but does not
adopt any political decisions,” Utsumi added.*