South Asian Regional Forum 16-12-2007

The South Asian Regional Forum was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 16th and 17th of December 2007, wherein the Chef-de-Mission of the Beijing 2008 Olympics from all the 8 Member NOCs participated along with one more NOC delegate.

Apart from the Olympic Solidarity programme, the main issue discussed during the forum was the preparations for the Beijing Olympic Games 2008.  Mr. Zsigmond Nagy, IOC Expert from the Hungarian Olympic Committee presented a detailed report on behalf of the IOC/OS to the NOCs on the preparations for the Olympic Games.  Also the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing committee (BOGOC) presented a detailed progress report on the Games and informed the NOCs as to what is required to be done before their athletes arrive for the Games.

The OCA was represented by Mr. Manual Silverio, Chairman Media Committee and Mr. Husain Al-Musallam, Director General OCA.

The OCA would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Hemasiri Fernando, President NOC of Sri Lanka  for the excellent arrangements made for the forum and kind hospitality provided to the delegates.