Status of International Conventions Sponsored by CITEL

1. Lima Convention

The Inter-American Convention on Amateur Service was adopted in Lima, Peru, 1987 during the Fifth Inter-American Telecommunication Conference (CITEL/RES.130 (V-87)) and was amended to facilitate the full participation of CITEL Member States during the First Extraordinary Meeting of CITEL in 1988 (CITEL/RES.141 (I/E-88)). This Convention provides for the use of the amateur radio service for nationals of a Member State in the territory of another Member State.

The Lima Convention came into force on February 21, 1990. The General Secretariat of the OAS is the depository of the original instrument, ratification and adhesions.

Signatory Countries	Date	RA/AC/AD	Date for the Instrument Deposit
Argentina	14/08/87	11/03/90 RA	06/12/90
Bolivia	14/08/87
Brazil	14/08/87
Canada		06/04/89 AP	18/05/89
Chile	14/08/87
Colombia	14/08/87
Guatemala		05/12/89 AP	22/01/90
Haiti	14/08/87
Mexico		13/03/89 AP	21/06/89
Paraguay	07/09/95	24/05/95 RA	15/09/95
Peru	14/08/87
Surinam	14/08/87
United States	14/08/87	21/02/91 AC	20/03/91
Uruguay	14/08/87
Venezuela		14/10/88 AP	30/11/88

RA = ratification
AC = acceptance
AD = adhesion

The signatures not subject to ratification, approval or acceptance: According to articles 7 (a) and 10 of the Convention these countries are parties of the convention: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Haiti, Peru and Surinam. The signatures subject to ratification, approval or acceptance according to Article 7 (b) of the convention: United States and Uruguay.

2. Inter-American Convention on the International Amateur Radio Permit (IARP)

The second meeting of CITEL’s Permanent Executive Committee in December 1994 (COM/CITEL/RES.5 (II-94) approved it. Afterwards it was adopted in Montrouis, Haiti during the twenty-fifth ordinary period of sessions of the General Assembly (AG/RES.1316 (XXV-O/95)). This convention provides for temporary amateur station operations of under its authority to persons licensed with an IARP by another member state without further review. Any member state may exclusively grant licenses to its citizens to operate in other member state. The IARP Convention came into force on February 23, 1996. The depository is the General Secretariat of the OAS for RA, AC and AD.

RA = ratification
AC = acceptance
AD = adhesion