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'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 > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the >archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html