23.09.2012 - Although technology is making it easier and faster to communicate than ever before, it cannot cancel the role of the Post, said Dr Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari, Qatar’s minister of culture, arts and heritage, at today’s opening press conference for the 25th Universal Postal Congress.
( l. to r.: Q-Post
Chairman A. Al-Aqaily, Minister Dr H. Bin Abdulaziz Al - Kuwari,
and UPU Director General E. Dayan )
“These changes actually reaffirm the Post’s role and that’s why we
require a new strategy, as the theme of the Congress, ‘New world, new
strategy’, reflects,” said the minister. The Congress officially begins
tomorrow in Doha.
Al-Kuwari stressed the importance of the ministerial conference that
will take place on 8 October, saying that this will be an important step
forward in shaping the postal sector’s future orientation.
UPU Director General Edouard Dayan said the original principles that
have guided the UPU since its creation almost 140 years ago still apply
today: the UPU is devoted to building a worldwide postal territory and
creating a world without borders, giving every citizen a chance to
communicate and exchange through the postal network, as well as
organizing the free movement of messages, goods and money to facilitate
communication and trade. “Although communication has undergone a
profound transformation since the UPU was created, new technologies are
providing opportunities for the postal sector to develop and adapt to
the new realities of today,” he said.
The 25th Universal Postal Congress is expected to formally
adopt the Doha Postal Strategy, the global postal sector’s roadmap for
2013-2016, whose successful implementation relies on a regional
approach.
Dayan said the 25th Universal Postal Congress will be an
important one, given the many issues to be discussed – from adopting
postal security standards to facilitate the mail’s air transportation to
how Posts can work efficiently with customs authorities to move the
mail more efficiently and how countries remunerate each other for
processing each other’s mail. Indeed, many proposals on the rules that
govern the sending of mail across borders will be examined, explained
the director general.
Other Congress highlights include the election of new UPU management on 10 October.
The 25th Universal Postal Congress is hosted by the State
of Qatar in cooperation with Qatar Post and under the patronage of the
country’s emir, His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani.
Source : http://news.upu.int
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