ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 in photos Dignitaries at the opening ceremony From the centre (left to right): Rwanda‘s President Paul Kagame; Sierra Leone’s Vice President Alhaji Samuel Sam-Sumana; and ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun I. Touré accompanied by Geneva’s “Vieux Grenadiers” at the opening ceremony ITU News 9 | 2009 November 2009 33 ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 in photos Ribbon-cutting ceremony at the opening of ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 Dignitaries on a VIP tour of the Exhibition stop at the Azerbaijan stand President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe (left) on a VIP tour of the Exhibition on 7 October 2009, accompanied by ITU Deputy Secretary-General and Acting Executive Manager of ITU TELECOM Houlin Zhao 34 ITU News 9 | 2009 November 2009 ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 in photos From left to right: ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun I. Touré; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of China Mobile Wang Jianzhou; and ITU Deputy Secretary-General and Acting Executive Manager of ITU TELECOM Houlin Zhao Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau Valery Timofeev (right) during an interview with Telecom TV From left to right: Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau Malcolm Johnson; Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid; Chief Executive Officer of the STC Group Saud bin Majed Al Daweesh; and ITU Deputy Secretary-General and Acting Executive Manager of ITU TELECOM Houlin Zhao ITU News 9 | 2009 November 2009 35