Telecoms treaty sunk by US with EU allies

Efforts to update international telecommunications regulations collapsed on the 13 December 2012 after six EU member states joined the US and Canada in refusing to agree a text at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Proposal for a Council Decision establishing the EU position for the review of the International Telecommunications Regulations to be taken at the World Conference on International Telecommunications or its preparatory instances http://www.europeansources.info/record/proposal-for-a-council-decision-establishing-the-eu-position-for-the-review-of-the-international-telecommunications-regulations-to-be-taken-at-the-world-conference-on-international-telecommunications/

ITU: World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12), Dubai, 3-14 December 2012. http://www.itu.int/en/wcit-12/Pages/default.aspx

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