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THE TAMPERE CONVENTION ON THE PROVISION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESOURCES FOR DISASTER MITIGATION AND RELIEF OPERATIONS

Signatories

 

All governments are asked to sign the Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations.

 

  1. Thirty eight nations were authorized to sign on 18 June 1998 and thirty three did at the Intergovernmental Conference on Emergency Telecommunications in Tampere Finland; however, a number of signatures were not allowed. Here is the list of those who have signed as reported by the ITU as of 23 August 1999. Those that have already signed are: Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Chile, Congo, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Italy, Jamaica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mongolia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sudan, Switzerland, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
  2. The Convention was opened for signature at Tampere by all States Member of the United Nations or of the International Telecommunications union on 18 June, 1998, and thereafter at the headquarters of the United Nations Headquarters in new York from 22 June 1998 where it will remain open until 21 June 2003, in accordance with its article 12.

 

Participants

Signature

 

Benin

18 June 1998

 

Burundi

18 June 1998

 

Chile

18 June 1998

 

Congo

18 June 1998

 

Cyprus

18 June 1998

 

Denmark

18 June 1998

 

Finland

18 June 1998

 

Germany

18 June 1998

 

Ghana

18 June 1998

 

Italy

18 June 1998

 

Kenya

18 June 1998

 

Kuwait

18 June 1998

 

Lebanon

17 November, 1998

 

Mali

18 June 1998

 

Malta

18 June 1998

 

Marshall Islands

11 November, 1998

 

Mauritania

18 June 1998

 

Mongolia

18 June 1998

 

Morocco

1 December, 1998

 

Nicaragua

18 June 1998

 

Niger

18 June 1998

 

Poland

18 June 1998

 

Portugal

18 June 1998

 

Romania

18 June 1998

 

Senegal

20 November, 1998

 

Sudan

4 December, 1998

 

Switzerland

18 June 1998

 

Tajikistan

18 June 1998

 

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

3 December, 1998

 

Uganda

28 October, 1998

 

United States of America

17 November, 1998

 

Uzbekistan

6 October, 1998

 

    

 

 

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