The 16th Plenipotentiary Conference of the Inter-national Telecommunication Union (ITU) will be hosted by the Government of Morocco in Marrakech from Monday 23 September until Friday 18 October 2002. The meeting will be the first ITU Plenipotentiary Conference to be held in the new millennium and on the African continent since 1982. In the past 20 years, ITU Plenipotentiary Conferences have been held in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The Plenipotentiary Conference, held every four years, is the top policy-making body of the ITU. It sets the organisation's general policies, adopts four-year strategic and financial plans, and also elects the top executives of the organisation. It is a key event at which 189 countries that are members of the ITU will decide on ITU's future role, thereby determining its ability to influence and affect the telecoms issues world-wide (and this includes amateur radio).
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