Agreement for the Establishment of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union

This Agreement provides for the establishment of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, the objectives of which are to facilitate the coordination of the planning, programming and development of intraregional communications networks to meet the immediate and future telecommunications needs of the Region; to assist the development of the national components of regional and international telecommunications networks; to promote the general awareness of the telecommunications needs of the Region and its potential for promoting the socio-economic development of the Region; and to establish linkages with the information bases of other telecommunication organizations and in particular, the Centre for Telecommunications Development at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva, among other things.