Bid submitted for 2012 postal meet

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http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/a ... rent_id=16

QATAR has formally submitted its bid for hosting the Universal Postal Union's (UPU) World Postal Congress in 2012.
Qatar's ambassador to Switzerland, Abdullah Falah al-Dossari, made the announcement at a meeting, hosted by the embassy in Berne last week.

Giving details of the meeting, Q-Post chairman Ali Mohamed al-Ali said the country's bid for hosting the 25th World Postal Congress had the backing of a large number of countries in the GCC, and Arab regions and also a number of its friends spread through out the world.

The Q-Post chairman recalled that the UAE had made an unsuccessful bid for hosting the 23rd World Postal Congress in 2004. Though it lost the race to Nairobi, ultimately Romanian capital Bucharest was the venue for the 2004 congress.

Queried if any other country had made a bid for hosting the 2012 congress, al-Ali said Australia was also in the race. To our knowledge Russia, who had entered the race earlier, is not in the fray, said the Q-Post chairman.

Asked about Qatar's chances of winning the bid, the chairman said he is optimistic Al-Ali said al-Dossari had made a presentation on the country and highlighted the number of meetings, conferences, and exhibitions that the country had played host to in the past one decade.
The chairman said the Qatar team had given a clear picture of the facilities that the country has for hosting such a major meeting, where there would be delegates from at least 191 countries.

Qatar Airways too made a presentation on the country's national carrier and its network at the meeting held in Berne.
Besides al-Ali, the Q-Post delegation comprised IT manager George Scott Campbell, public relations manager Abdullah Shlash al-Hajiri, head of Quality management centre Catina Aghyan, and head of international relations Jassim al-Malki.

A host of top officials of UPU, led by its director general Edward Dayan and deputy director general Guozhong Huang were present at the meeting hosted by the embassy in Berne.

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Billy's hanging on for this one - he's hoping to be invited as a guest speaker - with a scouse interpreter of course - anyone know arabic for awri la? - actually it sounds arabic.........