Kiev Hosts XXXVI
Session Of The Board And 7th Meeting Of The Operations Committee Of
Intersputnik
(23 April 2008) In response to an
invitation from the National Space Agency of Ukraine, the Board and the
Operations Committee met in Kiev on April 21-23 for their XXXVI session and 7th
meeting attended by delegations of the Organization's Members and
Signatories.
The Board session was opened by Mr. Dimitar
Stanchev, Representatives at a session of the Board from the Republic of
Bulgaria, Deputy Chairman of the State Agency for Information Technology and
Communications (SAITC). Mr. V.G.Komarov, Ukraine's Representative in the Board,
First Deputy Director General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine, was
unanimously elected Chairman of the Intersputnik Board for the next
tenure.
The 7th meeting of the Operation Committee was chaired by Mr.
V.L.Glebskiy, Chairman of the Operations Committee, counsellor of the Permanent
Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Communities. As proposed by
the Russian Satellite Communications Company - Intersputnik Signatory from
Russian Federation, the Committee elected Mr. Yevgeny Buydinov, citizen of
Russian Federation, Investment Projects Director of the Russian Satellite
Communications Company Chairman of the Committee for a term of three
years.
The meetings addressed a wide range of issues related to current
operations and development plans of the Organization.
A report on the
activity of Intersputnik after the previous meetings was presented by Mr.
V.E.Belov, Director General of Intersputnik. The Board and the Operations
Committee appreciated the Directorate's efforts during the period under review.
Also, a report was presented on the performance of Intersputnik's subsidiary
Intersputnik Holding Ltd. and its group of companies. The delegates noted that
the group's earnings had been steadily growing.
When discussing plans
aimed at filing Intersputnik's own orbit/frequency resource and providing its
international legal protection, the Board expressed appreciation to the
Telecommunications Administration of the Republic of Belarus for agreeing to
continue acting as a Notifying Administration with respect to Intersputnik's
planned satellite networks. The Board authorised the Telecommunications
Administration of the Republic of Belarus to perform the functions of the
Notifying Administration on behalf of the Administrations of all Intersputnik
Member countries and in the interests of the entire Organization.
The
Operations Committee reviewed Intersputnik's financial and economic performance
and the results of the audit of the Organization's financial and economic
indicators in the period from January 01 to December 31, 2007. Given the
positive growth trends, it was decided to pay extra dividends to the Members
and Signatories of the Organization.
For the next term of three years,
the Operations Committee elected members of Intersputnik's Audit Commission
representing Intersputnik Signatories from Socialist Republic of Vietnam,
Republic of Poland and Czech Republic.
The Board reconfirmed the
resolution of the 6th meeting of the Operations Committee to approve amendments
to the Intersputnik Operating Agreement and approved the amended version of the
Intersputnik Operating Agreement.
The next 8th meeting of the Operations
Committee will be held in November 2008 in Moscow, Russian Federation. The next
XXXVII session of the Intersputnik Board will take place in April 2009 in Baku,
Azerbaijan Republic.
About Intersputnik
Founded in 1971 under the
intergovernmental Agreement on the Establishment of an Intersputnik
International System and Organization of Space Communications, Intersputnik is
an international intergovernmental organisation headquartered in Moscow,
Russia. The Organization's mission is to contribute to the strengthening and
development of economic, scientific, technical and cultural relations by
communications as well as by radio and television broadcasting via satellites;
co-operation and co-ordination of efforts of the member-countries in designing,
establishing, operating and developing an international satellite
communications system. Intersputnik can be joined by the government of any
state which shares the Organization's principles of activity. Presently,
Intersputnik has 25 Member-countries.
Intersputnik's core business is to
lease to telecommunications operators, broadcasters and corporate customers the
required frequency and power resource of geostationary satellites under
agreements with partner operators and to offer, through its 100 % subsidiary
Intersputnik Holding Ltd., full-scale services aimed at installing and
operating satellite telecommunications networks.
Intersputnik is an
all-purpose supplier of satellite resource and technical solutions. Its
customers can choose from a variety of satellite systems' resources available
in the global marketplace.
Under a long-term partnership with Russian
satellite operator RSCC, Intersputnik offers its customers satellite resource
on Express-A-, Express-AM-series satellites. The Organization is also the
official distributor of satellite resource and services of the European
satellite operator Eutelsat S.A., offers capacity on the Intelsat satellites
and provides services on the ABS-1 spacecraft (former LMI-1). Intersputnik's
customers are governmental and private companies in over forty
countries.
(source: Intersputnik)
