The ITU‑R Radio Assem­bly (RA) met dur­ing the week before the World Radio Con­fer­ence in Dubai. The IARU par­tic­i­pat­ed in the meet­ing and con­tributed to the devel­op­ment of the draft ITU‑R Rec­om­men­da­tion for 23cm band ama­teur oper­a­tions along­side the co-fre­quen­cy radio nav­i­ga­tion satel­lite ser­vice (RNSS). This has fol­lowed a dif­fi­cult devel­op­ment process in the ITU‑R study groups but the RA achieved a pos­i­tive out­come with final­i­sa­tion of ITU‑R Rec­om­men­da­tion M.2164. A sum­ma­ry report detail­ing the meet­ing activ­i­ty and some of the ten­sions dealt with dur­ing the meet­ing is avail­able here.