This document contains the following plenary speeches from the 1994 annual conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC): "Forging New Links--Focus on Developing Economies" by Sir Donald Maitland of the Independent Commission for World-Wide Telecommunications Development (United Kingdom); "The Missing Link: Still Missing? The Continuing Role of the ITU in Telecommunications Development" by Pekka Tarjanne of the International Telecommunication Union; "Forging New Links Philippine Style" by Josefina T. Lichauco of the Department of Transportation and Communications (Philippines); "Telecommunications Liberalization--The Hong Kong Model" by Alex Arena of the Telecommunications Authority (Hong Kong); "Information Technologies--Present and Future" by Warren E. Falconer of AT&T (United States); "KDD's International Cooperation Activities under a Competitive Regime" by Kunishi Nosaka of Kokusai Denshin Denwa (Japan); "Telecommunications in the Pacific" by Ieremia T. Tabai of the South Pacific Forum Secretariat (Fiji); "The Co-Ordinating Role of APT in Promoting Telecommunications in the Asia Pacific Region" by Riluvan Shareef of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity; "Compatible Roles of Government and the Private Sector in Fostering Telecommunication Development" by Derek H. Burney of BCE Telecom International, Inc.; and the abstract only of "Let's Take a Ride on the International Information Highway" by Mike Thurk of Digital Equipment Corporation (United States). The winner of the 1993 PTC research prize competition, "Telecommunications, Capabilities and Development: Towards an Integrated Framework for Development Communication" (Nikhil Sinha), is also included; this paper contains 54 references. (MES)