Kyrgyz Republic hosts joint XLI
session of the Board and 16th
meeting of the Operations Committee
of the Intersputnik International
Organization of Space Communications
Steps approved to put into practice
a program for the expansion of the
Intersputnik satellite
telecommunications system; 2012
financial results approved; Vadim
Belov elected Intersputnik Director
General for a four-year term
On June 4, 2013 representatives of
most Intersputnik Member Countries
and Signatories met in the Kyrgyz
Republic on the invitation of the
Kyrgyz Ministry of Transport and
Communications for the regular joint
XLI session of the Board and 16th
meeting of the Operations Committee
of Intersputnik.
The delegates of the joint session
unanimously elected Mr. Bayish
Nurmatov, Advisor to the Director of
the State Communications Agency
under the Government of the Kyrgyz
Republic, Director of the Institute
of Electronics and
Telecommunications under Kyrgyz
Razzakov State Technological
University, Chairman of the Board –
Intersputnik’s highest governing
body. Another key issue, which is
closely related to the
Organization’s further growth, was
the election of the Director
General. For the next four years
this office will be held by Mr.
Vadim Belov, Intersputnik’s current
Director General.
During the joint session, a second
national Signatory from the Federal
Republic of Somalia, an Intersputnik
Member since early 2012, which shows
much interest in Intersputnik,
signed the Intersputnik Operating
Agreement. It is important that the
Board and the Operations Committee
approved the Agreement on
Cooperation between Intersputnik and
the International Mobile Satellite
Organization (IMSO). Closer
relations with IMSO will help both
international organizations share
their experience in the field of
satellite communications.
The Director General presented a
report describing Intersputnik’s
performance both for the period
under review since the 2012 joint
session of the Board and the
Operations Committee and for the
last eight years when Mr. Vadim
Belov headed the Intersputnik
Directorate. The results of work
done during that period are most
convincingly proven by a nearly
two-fold rise in revenues. It was
again stressed that Intersputnik was
growing at a high rate using more
satellite capacity and serving more
customers. This was confirmed by the
report of the Audit Committee on the
examination of Intersputnik’s
financial and economic performance
in 2012 and the report on the
fulfillment of the 2012 finance plan
approved by the delegates.
Much attention was paid to the
expansion of the Intersputnik
international satellite
telecommunications system as an
important task including, in the
first place, the procurement of
Intersputnik’s own satellite
resource using new satellites, and
the maximum possible use of
Intersputnik’s orbit and frequency
resource in cooperation with
interested partners. The delegates
reviewed detailed information on
progress in the implementation of
international satellite projects at
16W, 47.5W, and 78E, and potential
cooperation with respect to several
other orbital positions belonging to
Intersputnik. The delegates noted
with satisfaction that one of such
projects was planned to be carried
out in the interests of the Republic
of Belarus and Mongolia, both
Members of Intersputnik, and
requested the Directorate to take
steps to duly prepare this project.
The Ministry of National Development
of Hungary invited the Board and the
Operations
Committee to meet for their next
joint session in the second quarter
of 2014 in Hungary.
