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	CITEL / IARP

	What is CITEL	Inter-American Telecommunications Commission
	What is IARP	Inter-American Convention on an International Amateur Radio Permit

	CITEL Member States (35)	Antigua & Barbuda; Argentina; Commonwealth of Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bolivia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Commonwealth of Dominica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Grenada; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Dominican Republic; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent the Grenadines; Suriname; United States of America; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay; Venezuela. By resolution of the Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (1962) the current Government of Cuba is excluded from participation in the Organization of American States (OAS).
	IARP - Article 4	A State Party may decline to honor, suspend or cancel the operation of an IARP, in accordance with the laws in that State. When transmitting in the visited country, the IARP holder must use the call sign prefix specified by the visited country andthe call sign of the home license separated by the word "stroke" or "/." The IARP holder must transmit only on frequencies specified by the visited State Party and must abide by all the regulations of the visited State Party.