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Qatargas to sponsor Postal Congress

Posted by | Aug 21, 2008 | |

Qatargas is to sponsor The Congress of Universal Postal Union to be hosted by Qatar in 2012. This was announced in a press conference held at the premises of Q-Post who signed a contract with Qatargas in the General Post Office, West Bay yesterday.

“As members of Qatar Gas, we are responsible to participate and help in anything that will raise the name of Qatar,” said Ghanem Mohammed Al Kawary, Director of Administration Department. The state of Qatar was elected as deputy chairman of the new administration Council of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) for Asia. This took place in a voting session in the Swiss Capital.

Qatar, for the first time, joined membership of the UPU administration council through elections in the Asia and Oceania group.

The Universal Postal Congress (CPU) board consists of 41 elected countries as per various regional groupings. Ali Mohamed Al Ali, Chairman and Director General of Qatar General Postal Corporation (Q-Post) said in a statement that the election of Qatar as deputy chairman of UPU Council of Administration represents a new achievement for Qatar which is getting ready to host the 25th UPU Congress conference in 2012.

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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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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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Q-Post confident to win postal congress bid

Posted by | Jul 21, 2008 | |

Qatar has very good chances of winning the bid to host the 25th Universal Postal Union Congress in 2012 “in view of the broad Arab and world support it enjoys and of its long and internationally-recognised experience in organising world-class gatherings and conferences”, an official source said yesterday.

The country, to host the conference, has to secure a majority of votes of the 191 member-states which are meeting for the 24th UPU Congress in Geneva from July 23 to August 13.

A delegation representing the General Postal Corporation (Q-Post) headed by its chairman and general manager Ali Mohamed al-Ali will participate in the congress in Geneva.

In an interview with QNA, al-Ali expressed confidence that “Qatar’s potentials and its long experience in hosting conferences and international events besides its well-established security and stability, are all factors that qualify Doha to host the UPU Congress”.

Qatar Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva, Abdulla Falah al-Dosari, has assured the UPU of Qatar’s preparedness to host the UPU congress in 2012 and to offer all necessary facilities to make this event a success, he said.

More than 1,500 delegates from the UPU’s 191 member-countries will attend the congress.

The UPU has the objective to develop social, cultural and commercial communication between people through the efficient operation of the postal service. As an inter-governmental institution, the UPU is called upon to play an important leadership role in promoting the continued revitalisation of postal services.

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