24th OCA General Assembly 09-09-2005

The 24th OCA General Assembly successfully concluded in Guangzhou (China) on 9th of September 2005.   The Assembly was presided over by HRH Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah, President of OCA.    Mr. Huang Huang, Governor of Guangdong Province and Mr. Liu Peng, Minister of Sports and President of Chinese Olympic Committee also attended the opening ceremony and welcomed the Members to Guangzhou.

The highlights of the General Assembly were

1. Secretary General OCA & IOA and IOC Member and Mr. Hemasiri Fernando, President of NOC of Sri Lanka.

2. Signing of the MOU between the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (APBU) and Dentsu, the OCA Marketing Agents with regard to the television rights for the 2006 Doha Asian Games.

3. Signing of MOU between, OCA/OS and the NOCs of China, Korea, and I.R. of Iran with regard to the establishment of high level training centers in these respective countries.

4. Allotment of the 3rd Asian Indoor Games to Vietnam to be held in 2009

5. Establishment of Beach Games and the first Beach Games to be held in Bali, Indonesia in 2008.

6. Recognition of Asian Federations of Dragon Boat and Kickboxing

7. Redesigning of the OCA Brand Logo

8. Reduction in the size of the OCA Committee from 11 to 5 with one Chairman and 4 members.  The Chairman to be elected by the General Assembly and the Members to be selected by the Executive Board from the nominations made by the NOCs.