XN000022-1994-08-12 — Page 4

FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1994

2

HK TO HOST COMMONWEALTH POSTAL CONFERENCE

THE HONG KONG POST OFFICE WILL HOST THE 1994 CONFERENCE OF COMMONWEALTH POSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS (CCPA) FROM AUGUST 16 TO 20 AT THE HONG KONG CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE, THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, MR MIKE PAGLIARI, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

THERE ARE AT PRESENT 65 COMMONWEALTH POSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS, INCLUDING THE POSTAL ADMINISTRATION OF SOUTH AFRICA WHICH WILL BE ATTENDING CCPA FOR THE FIRST TIME.

MR PAGLIARI SAID THE IDEA OF HOLDING REGULAR CONFERENCE OF COMMONWEALTH POSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS WAS FIRST CONCEIVED HERE IN HONG KONG 25 YEARS AGO WHEN DELEGATES FROM THE COMMONWEALTH POSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS BROKE THEIR JOURNEY IN HONG KONG FOR AN INFORMAL MEETING PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE 1969 CONGRESS OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION (UPU) IN TOKYO.

HE

SAID THIS IDEA WAS FOLLOWED THROUGH AND THE FIRST CCPA WAS HELD IN LONDON IN 1971.

THEREAFTER,

CCPA HAS BEEN A REGULAR EVENT ORGANISED EVERY TWO YEARS IN VARIOUS COMMONWEALTH TERRITORIES.

+

IN ADDITION A CCPA HAS ALSO BEEN HELD EVERY FIVE YEARS BEFORE EACH CONGRESS OF THE UPU.

THE 21ST CONGRESS OF THE UPU WILL TAKE PLACE IN SEOUL, REPUBLIC OF KOREA, FROM AUGUST 22 TO SEPTEMBER 14, 1994 AND THE HONG KONG POST OFFICE, BEING ONE OF THE BIGGEST COMMONWEALTH

CONFERENCE OF COMMONWEALTH

WILL HOST A

ADMINISTRATIONS, ADMINISTRATIONS BEFORE THE 21ST CONGRESS OF THE UPU.

POSTAL POSTAL

FOR HISTORICAL REASONS, SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY WILL NOT RECUR.

SO FAR, ABOUT 60 DELEGATES FROM SOME 30 OVERSEAS POSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE SIGNIFIED THEIR INTENTION TO ATTEND THE CCPA IN HONG KONG.

"THESE DELEGATES COMPRISE THE TOP OFFICIALS OF THE COMMONWEALTH POSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS," MR PAGLIARI SAID.

"AT THE CONFERENCE, THEY WILL EXCHANGE VIEWS ON PROPOSALS GOVERNING THE INTERNATIONAL POSTAL SERVICES WHICH WILL BE DELIBERATED IN THE UPU CONGRESS IN SEOUL.

"THIS PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMONWEALTH POSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS TO WORK TOGETHER ΤΟ SUPPORT AND PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH QUALITY INTERNATIONAL POSTAL SERVICE AND ΤΟ EXCHANGE VIEWS ON THE VITAL ISSUES WHICH WILL BE DISCUSSED IN THE SBOUL CONGRESS, HE ADDED.

г

MR PAGLIARI ALSO REMINDED THE PUBLIC STAMP SHEETLET WILL BE ISSUED ON AUGUST 16 OPENING OF THE CCPA.

THAT A

$10 DEFINITIVE TO MARK THE OFFICIAL

/A SPECTAL