the fore the key issue which may have to be faced in international negotiations regarding orbit availability for GEOSAT-s. Insofar as frequency for microwave power transmission is concerned, the most crucial issue pertaining to ITU is whether it would have competence to deal with such transmission. To determine this, it is necessary to scrutinize the International Telecommunication Convention (ITC) which defines the purposes of ITU. 3.2.1.1 Purposes of ITU The current basic instrument of ITU was signed at Malaga- Torremolinos in 1973 and entered into force on January 1, 1975. Under its provisions the purposes of the Union are: (a) to maintain and extend international cooperation for the improvement and rational use of telecommunications of all kinds; (b) to promote the development of technical facilities and their most efficient operation with a view to improving the efficiency of telecommunications services, increasing their usefulness and making them, so far as possible, generally available to the public; (c) to harmonize the actions of nations in the attainment of those ends.(Emphasis added). If one scrutinizes the avowed purposes of ITU, it appears that the maintenance and extension of international cooperation by ITU must relate to the improvement and rational use of "telecommunications of all kinds" and to the "improvement of the efficiency of telecommunications services". Thus under subparagraphs (a) and (b) "telecommunications" is the keyword and subparagraph
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