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...biggest software company, which is desperate to move into the mobile - phone industry, with Vodafone, the planet's second biggest mobile operator? Would you guess a) a mobile phone based on a Microsoft operating system, or b) a dongle? When Microsoft boss Bill Gates jetted into Geneva's ITU Telecom World Conference last week, he came up with answer...
...tension last week Diplomats from 157 nations huddled in their seats or bantered uneasily across the room. They were awaiting the results of a secret ballot that could mean life or death tor one of the oldest cooperative agencies in the world, the United Nations-sponsored International Telecommunication Union (ITU), founded in 1865, and that could call into question the U.S. commitment...
Finally, as the tally was broadcast a palpable mood of relief swept through the hall. By a vote of 85 to 31, the delegates had adopted a British-inspired resolution that condemned Israel for its June 6 invasion of Lebanon. Far more important for the ITU, the resolution thwarted an explosive proposal, sponsored by Algeria and strongly supported by Libya, Iraq and other hard-line Arab states, that demanded Israel's expulsion from the nominally apolitical organization. The chief US representative at the meeting, Lawyer Michael Gardner, pronounced himself absolutely delighted" at the outcome Gardner had warned that passage...
...present space of the Palais des Nations; one of the Secretariat's prime responsibilities is to keep the printing presses, which turn out more than 250 million pages a year, running. Two steel-and-glass headquarters, for the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and a 1,200-car garage are also being built...
...addition to ILO and ITU, Geneva is the home of such prestigious U.N. agencies as the World Health Organization (WHO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Last week the branch of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), Paris-based since 1946, disclosed plans to move its headquarters to Geneva by next summer. Soon to come is a helter-skelter maze of smaller programs, ranging from the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to the International Bureau for Declaration of Death, which identifies victims of civil wars and natural disasters...