NEWS RELEASE
International Amateur Radio Union
P.O. Box 310905
Newington, CT 06131-0905 USA
FAX: +1 860 594 0259
E-Mail: iaru@iaru.org
10 December 2002

For immediate release

By vote of the present member-societies of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), two new members -- Association des Radio Amateurs du Cameroun (ARTJ) and Assoçiãcao dos Radioamadores de Macau (ARM) -- have been admitted to the IARU effective 9 December 2002.

ARTJ was founded in 1998. Its official address is Ecole Nationale Superieuse des Postes et Telecom, B.P. 6132 Yaounde, Cameroun. There are 14 members of ARTJ, seven of whom are licensed.

ARM was first formed on 15 June 1992 by seven founding members and now has 85 members. Its official address is Box 6018, Macau SAR; Email arm@macau.ctm.net. The Chinese Radio Sports Association expressed its firm support of the application, stating that "according to the basic law of Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, CRSA will respect all the decisions by ARM and will never interfere in its internal affairs."

The IARU, founded in 1925, is a worldwide federation of national amateur radio societies with members in 153 countries and separate territories. In addition to becoming members of the worldwide IARU, ARTJ and ARM become members of IARU Region 1 and IARU Region 3, respectively.

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