SL fails to obtain ITU seat

21 October 2010 05:00 am

Sri Lanka has failed to obtain a seat in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council, in Geneva. Sri Lanka lost out to Bangladesh in the Asian region.

Bangladesh got 123 votes out of 161 and acquired the sixth position, beating giants like Australia, India and Thailand, to become the member.  Sri Lanka got only 79 votes while Pakistan got 93 votes, sources said.

The membership tenure will be four years.

The ITU Council was established in 1947 under the name, Administrative Council, following a decision taken by the 1947 Plenipotentiary Conference in the US.