The APT Second Preparatory Meetings for the ITU World Telecom Development Conference (WTDC-10) and Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-10) was held on December 1-4, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand.

The APT preparatory meetings are designed to consolidate the regional view on common issues that members consider to be voiced at the WTDC-10 and PP-10 as common input from the Asia Pacific region. These meetings will be a common platform for the discussion and exchange of views among various interested stakeholders and experts on the issues pertaining to the agenda of the said conferences. The meetings will attempt to start the process for developing common proposals to the WTDC-10 and PP-10.
The APT Second Preparatory meetings are organized by APT.

The key objectives of the first meetings include the following:

 

• To identify key areas of interest and common issues that needs to be discussed and proposed to the ITU WTDC-10 and PP-10.
• To discuss and formulate draft Preliminary APT Common Proposals (PACPs) / APT Joint Proposals (AJPs).
• To finalize PACPs / AJPs for the first set of input to WTDC-10 and PP-10.