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Report on APDF Executive Committee meeting

1.Executive Committee meeting

APDF Executive Committee was organized on June 1 and 2, 2009 by e-mail.

All members attended and exchanged opinions. Main topics were the activities towards the end of the Second Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons and beyond 2012. The result of the meeting will be discussed at the informal brain storming which will be organized by UNESCAP during the ESCAP Expert Group meeting from June 8-10, 2009.

Please see the minutes of the e-mail meeting and if you have any idea or proposal on the activity until 2012 and beyond, please inform the secretariat.

Please see the minute from : http://www.normanet.ne.jp/~apdf/index.html

The colleagues of Vietnam started to prepare for the 4th APDF General Meeting and Conference to be held in 2010. We will wait for a formal announcement.

Korea will host the end-year APDF Conference in 2012.

2.Call for a Co-chair of APDF Working Committee of Children and Youth with Disability

If you are interested in nominating an appropriate person to the Co-chair of this committee, please send application with your resume to the secretariat by no later than June 30, 2009.

You will also see the reports on the following relevant events from the same website.

1.The First Asia Pacific CBR Congress, Feb.18-20, 2009, Bangkok

2.Report on International Accessible Tourism 2009, April 23-25, 2009, Singapore

3.Report on IDA (International Disability Alliance) and GPDD(Global Partnership for Development and Disability)

4.Preparatory meeting on APDF 2010 in Vietnam

5.Preparation of APDF 2012 in Korea

For your information the Accessible Tourism Conference will be held from November 24-26, 2009 in Takayama city, Japan by UNESCAP and Takayama city.

For more information, please contact Ms. Oniyama. takayamatyo@m6.dion.ne.jp

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