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NEWS RELEASE For immediate release Three New Members Admitted to IARU
By vote of the present member-societies of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), three new members -- National Association Radioamateurs of Georgia (NARG), Federation of Radiosport of the Republic of Armenia (FRRA), and Vietnam Amateur Radio Club (VARC) -- have been admitted to the IARU effective 4 April 2003. NARG was founded on 21 September 2000. It has 156 licensed radio amateurs as members out of a total of 485 in the country. Its mailing address is Agamashenebeli Av. 70, Tbilisi, Georgia. The President of NARG is Mamuka Kordzakhia, 4L2M. FRRA was founded on 14 January 1999 and has 84 of Armenia's 128 licensed radio amateurs as members. The President is George Badalian, EK6GB, and the mailing address is 87 Arshakuniats Ave., Yerevan 375005, Armenia. VARC was founded as a national organization in July 2002 under the Vietnam Radio-Electronics Association. From February 1996 to July 2002 the VARC was chartered in the Ho Chi Minh City area. Five of its members participated as observers in the 1997 Region 3 Conference in Beijing. The President of VARC is Eng. Nguyen Bac Ai, XV2A/3W6AR, and the mailing address is 49 Ben Chuong Str., District I. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The IARU, founded in 1925, is a worldwide federation of national amateur radio societies with members in 156 countries and separate territories. In addition to joining the worldwide IARU, NARG and FRRA become members of IARU Region 1 and VARC becomes a member of IARU Region 3. __________
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