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ANCOM’s President discussed with the Director General of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), Bishar A. Hussein

28.09.2017
 
 
ANCOM’s President Adrian Diță welcomed, at the Authority’s headquarters in Bucharest, Mr. Bishar Abdirahman Hussein, Director General of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the postal sector's primary forum for global cooperation in the United Nations (UN) system.  
The discussion topics included the Union’s role in ensuring the sustainability of the universal postal service in the context of the technological developments in the postal sector, as well as the plans for rendering the UPU more efficient, and the increasingly important role of the regulators in the postal services ecosystem.
The UPU Director General remarked that, in the context of the increasing share of cross-border items in the total postal traffic, the importance of international cooperation in this field is growing and showed that the rapid uptake of e-commerce brings along new opportunities and challenges both for the providers and for the regulators. The conclusion was that technological advances may be capitalized to the benefit of the postal services sector, which can provide a link between the physical and the digital national infrastructures.
The Universal Postal Union is the primary forum for cooperation between the postal-sector stakeholders and bodies, aiming to ensure an international network of modern products and services and to promote social, cultural and commercial communication through the efficient operation of postal services.
UPU has been established on 9 October 1874, upon the signing of the Treaty of Bern, Romania being among the 22 founding countries. So far, there are 192 member countries in the Universal Postal Union, creating a single postal territory for the reciprocal exchange of letters, being the second oldest UN specialized agency after the International Telecommunication Union.
 
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