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Qatar to host Universal Postal Congress in 2012

Posted by | Aug 7, 2008 | |

Qatar will host the 25th Universal Postal Congress (CPU) in 2012. This was decided by a vote held here yesterday (7th August) on the sidelines of the 24th Universal Postal Congress.
More than 180 participating countries voted for Qatar for efforts being made by its delegation headed by Ali Mohammed Al Ali, Chairman and General Manager of the General Postal Corporation (Q-Post).
Qatar also for the first time joined membership of the CPU Board by election as part of the Asia and Oceania grouping.
The CPU board consists of 41 elected countries as per various regional groupings.
Following the announcement of Qatar winning the bid for hosting the coming congress, Al Ali expressed overwhelming pleasure over this achievement, saying that the Qatar bidding file was a satisfactory one and meets all conditions set by the CPU to host such a universal gathering most important of which are stability, security availability of infrastructure and services including health, transportation and housing, etc.

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Electronic money transfers: Spain and Morocco's Posts sign up

Posted by | Aug 6, 2008 | |

The Spanish Post (Correos de España) and its Moroccan counterpart (Poste Maroc) signed a reciprocal agreement yesterday to set up an electronic money transfer service.

José Damián Santiago Martín, CEO of Correos de España, and Anass Alami, Director General of Poste Maroc, announced that a service was being launched between the two countries, at a brief ceremony during the 24th Universal Postal Congress.

This service will be available at about 1,000 post offices in Morocco and 2,300 in Spain.

Around half a million Moroccan nationals live in Spain, said ALAMI.

In 2007, it is believed that Moroccans living in Europe sent around 4.8 billion EUR back to their country of origin. That figure was bound to rise considerably over the coming years, said Poste Maroc’s Director General, adding that he was very happy to be signing the agreement with Spain.

This accord follows on from the successful cooperation agreement signed between the UPU and the Spanish Government in December 2007. Its aim was that Spain would facilitate money transfers with Latin America and North African countries via the UPU’s international financial network. A goal that has been achieved in less than seven months.

This launch of exchanges between Spain and Morocco could pave the way for similar services in other North African countries.

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France’s Edouard Dayan and China’s Guozhong Huang re-elected to UPU top jobs

Posted by | Aug 6, 2008 | |

40 member countries elected to Council of Administration and Postal Operations Council Geneva (Switzerland), 6 August 2008.
The 24th Universal Postal Congress today re-elected, by acclamation, France’s Edouard Dayan and China’s Guozhong Huang to the positions of Director General and Deputy Director General of the Universal Postal Union’s International Bureau for the period 2009-2012.
First elected at the 2004 Bucharest Congress, Dayan and Huang were the sole candidates for the positions. The member countries elect the organization’s two top officials at each UPU Congress. “Between Bucharest and Geneva, the UPU has travelled far. We have embarked upon profound change. All countries, whatever their size, whatever their level of development and postal organization model, are finding in the UPU an organization which, thanks to solid experience within the United Nations family, helps them to play their part in a world postal network and a constantly changing global environment.
Around these values of universality, solidarity and unity of the world postal family, the Universal Postal Union has, in recent years, successfully embraced change,” declared Edouard Dayan immediately after his election. For his part, Guozhong Huang said: “The role played by our institution in economic development and social progress is invaluable. Nowadays, with the challenge of globalization, the role of the postal sector as a basic infrastructure is greater than ever. The UPU’s raison d’être is more and more evident. If we can move with the times, adapt to changing environments and persevere with our reforms, the postal sector will remain able to play its irreplaceable role and the UPU will be an international organization that can forge ahead with cooperation between all postal sector players worldwide.” Congress also elected the member countries of the 2009-2012 UPU Council of Administration and Postal Operations Council. The Council of Administration’s 41 member countries ensure the continuity of the UPU’s work between Congresses, supervise its activities and study regulatory, administrative, legislative and legal issues. The Council approves the biennial budget and the accounts of the Union.

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Arab countries agree to start money transfer exchanges

Posted by | Aug 5, 2008 | |

In Geneva to attend the 24th Universal Postal Congress, the postal leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen signed an agreement that will see them start exchanging money transfers electronically.
As with other regional projects, the money transfer service relies on the UPU’s IFS application and international financial network.

Launched by the Arab League and implemented by a regional steering committee chaired by Emirates Post, the project, also supported by the French Post, will allow the postal operators involved to exchange money orders on a multilateral basis from now on.

The new service furthers the UPU’s efforts to improve access to secure and reliable money transfer services through formal channels for rural populations, and especially for migrant workers.

Explains Emirate Post’s Nasser Fathi Sadiq Qaddoumi, Chairman of the steering committee: The multilateral agreement is giving the Arab region – with some countries in Asia and others in Africa – a push to provide better services to migrant workers. For example, more than 80 pct of the United Arab Emirates population of 5.8 million people consists of foreigners, and the situation in other Gulf countries is not much different, says Qaddoumi.

Other Arab countries said they would join the regional network by the end of this year.

A similar regional project is expected to start next week with countries from North Eastern Africa.

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Global monitoring system gets the green light

Posted by | Aug 5, 2008 | |

The UPU will focus its efforts on finalising a new global monitoring system for the quality of service, which is expected to become operational in 2010.
Member countries unanimously adopted a proposal to develop and implement a global monitoring system to evaluate the quality of service for incoming priority letter-post items and the quality of service link to terminal dues (what countries pay each other for processing each other’s incoming international mail). The system will also be used to evaluate how successful postal operators are in improving their quality of service through projects financed by the UPU’s Quality of Service Fund.

Independent external auditors will measure the quality of service by sending priority letter-post test items through the network of participating postal operators. Using RFID technology, the system will measure the time an operator takes to deliver test items from the time these items are handed over. The system will then compare the results with the designated UPU body’s delivery standards for incoming international letter post, which will be compatible with each designated postal operator’s published domestic delivery standards.

A pilot project to evaluate possible RFID technical solutions was conducted with three Gulf-region countries, namely Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, from March to June this year. The UPU has now launched a call for tender to identify the solution that will be used for the global monitoring system.

“The UPU has made great efforts over the years to improve the quality of service, but we must improve across the board,” said Carlos da Silva from Portugal, which fully supported the proposal. “The system will imply a great deal of investment but it is worth it, and I believe everyone should do their bit.”

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