I have pleasure in inviting you to participate, as
observer, in the Regional Preparatory Meeting for
the Arab States (RPM-ARB) for the 2010 World
Telecommunication Development Conference, to be held
in Damascus, Syria, from 17-19 January 2010 at the
kind invitation of the Government of Syria.
Regional Preparatory Meetings are organized in
response to Resolution 31 (Rev. Doha, 2006) in a bid
to achieve greater regional coordination and engage
Members in the WTDC-10 process early on. They also
seek to identify issues, at the regional level, that
need to be addressed to foster the development of
telecommunications and of information technologies,
taking into account the expression of pressing needs
facing the Member States and Sector Members of the
region.
The RPM-ARB is expected to draw up
recommendations on carefully selected top priority
areas identified as essential for the ICT
development of the countries of the region, within
which Study Group Questions, programmes, projects
and regional initiatives can be identified for
consideration by WTDC-10. To this end, to facilitate
effective preparations by the Members of the ITU
Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D), a very
focused RPM-ARB agenda based on the general
framework provided by the preliminary draft WTDC-10
agenda has been prepared and is found in Annex I.
The Meeting documents will be posted on the ITU-D
website at
