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ARIRANG NEWS 20:00 Title: Headlines In the headlines... The International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference ends Friday after agreeing on a series of resolutions that will set the direction of the ICT industry over the next four years. President Park Geun-hye is set to visit Beijing on Monday for the 2014 APEC leaders′ summit... as well as bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. She′s also travelling to Myanmar and Australia for other multilateral meetings. Washington approves a possible sale of PAC-3 interceptor missiles to South Korea... which are a key part of building the Korean Air and Missile Defense system. Title: Opening Hello, everybody. Welcome to the newscast. Coming to you live from Seoul, I′m Kang Chery. Title: ITU member nations pledge to use ICT for sustainable growth The three week-long ITU Plenipotentiary Conference came to an end on this Friday with member nations seeing eye-to-eye.... on using ICT to tackle global issues and foster sustainable growth. And for host country Korea... it was an event that cemented its status as a global ICT power country. Connie Kim reports. The International Telecommunication Union was a global affair, with agreements to use Information and Communication Technology to resolve global issues and to sustain economic development. "Telecommunications and ICT can serve to improve human rights and welfare of all human kind, irrespective of region, country, gender or class." ITU Secretary-general Hamadoun Toure said he anticipates a world in which everyone benefits from easy and affordable access to ICT. Both industrialized and developing nations saw eye-to-eye on using ICT to tackle diseases such as Ebola and bolstering aviation safety by allowing global flight tracking. As the ITU conference came just before the deadline for the United Nations 2015 Millennium Development Goals, nations spoke in support of underprivileged nations setting up their own IT infrastructure to eradicate poverty. However, ITU member nations still need to find agreement on the definition of Information and Communications Technology. That has presented difficulties in deciding whether to give the UN arm more of a mandate in Internet governance. The conference gave host country Korea a venue to expand its position in the sector. Three resolutions proposed by Korea were adopted. It includes facilitating the use of the Internet of Things and making sure that more than half of global households have access to the Internet by 2020. Affirming Korea as a global ICT power nation,... Korean IT expert Lee Jae-sub was elected as director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau one of the top five decision making posts under the ITU. "Looking ahead to the 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference in the United Arab Emirates, member nations anticipate a more connected world and creating sustainable growth harnessing the use of technology. Connie Kim, Arirang News