Dear Patrick,

Thank your for your message which is quite clear concerning the 
General Assembly.
We, from Uruguay, can?t attend. this time What proxy would be 
available?

Sincerely yours,
                                       Alvaro Casal Tatlock
                          President of the Uruguayan Committee

>----Mensaje original----
>De: [log in to unmask]
>Fecha: 07/04/2008 12:43 
>Para: <[log in to unmask]>
>Asunto: Re: 23e ASSEMBL=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9E_G=C9N=C9RALE_?= ANNUELLE 
DE L&#39;ICOM
>
>Dear Roger,
>
>Re yours (below):
>
>It's far from an "obscure French law": and can you name ANY country 
in the
>world that DOESN'T demand yearly approval by the ultimate governing
>authority of a charitable or similar body - in our case the General
>Assembly - of the audited accounts and annual report of the Executive 
and
>Secretariat?
>
>No special meeting or costs are involved: all that is to happen (and
>should in fact always have happened) is that in years when there is 
no
>General Conference the annual meeting of the Advisory Committee sits 
as a
>short General Assembly (with proxies avaiable for those bot ttending 
in
>person).
>
>
>Patrick Boylan
>Chairperson, ICOM Legal Affairs Committee
>
>====================
>
>On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Roger Smith wrote:
>
>> How ridiculous...an obscure French Law dictates that an 
international
>> organisation has to spend time, effort and money meeting for no 
other real
>> purpose than to satisfy a statute!
>>
>> Isn't it about time that ICOM considered moving its HQ to a more
>> accommodating country.  The whole thing is totally bizarre.
>>
>> Roger
>
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