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28 October 2009
WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited the US from 27 to 30 October 2009.
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28 October 2009
The Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Board of Executive Directors was briefed on 28 October 2009 by WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya whilst on a visit to Washington DC. Mr. Mikuriya outlined the current and future strategy of the WCO with an emphasis on Customs in the 21st Century
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27 October 2009
The 14th Annual Conference of the East and Southern Africa (ESA) Governing Council held in Harare (Zimbabwe) on 14 and 15 May 2009 tasked the Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB) and the Office of the Vice-Chair with drafting a comprehensive regional implementation plan.
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27 October 2009
At the invitation of Mr. Gagik Khachatryan, Chairman of the State Revenue Committee in Armenia, the Secretary General of the WCO, Kunio Mikuriya, visited Yervan (Armenia) on 22 and 23 October 2009
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27 October 2009
At the invitation of Mr. Andrey Belyaninov, Director General of the Federal Customs Service in Russia, WCO Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya, visited Moscow from 20 to 21 October 2009.
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25 October 2009
In October 2009 an officer from the WCO Capacity Building Directorate went to Costa Rica at the request of the Director General of Customs to develop a comprehensive Integrity Action Plan and Strategy
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20 October 2009
The 8th Asia-Europe (ASEM) Customs DGs/Commissioners Meeting was held in Heraklion, (Crete, Greece) on 15 – 16 October 2009.
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20 October 2009
With a view to implementing the regional development strategy for West and Central Africa, the first meeting of Capacity Building Contact Points was held in Abidjan from 6 to 9 October 2009.
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20 October 2009
The sixth edition of the World Customs Journal has been released by the International Network of Customs Universities (INCU)
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19 October 2009
In April 2008, the Colombian Customs Administration sent the WCO a Letter of Intent to implement the Organization’s SAFE Framework of Standards
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14 October 2009
The 50th French-speaking Fellowship Programme was launched in Brussels on Monday 12 October 2009.
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13 October 2009
The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the WCO and Spain’s Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID) and Internal Revenue Service launched an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Project for the Americas during a Workshop held in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) from 13 to 16 October 2009.
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12 October 2009
His Excellency, Ambassador Jorge Urbina, Chair of the UN Security Council 1540 Committee, visited Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya at the WCO on 9 October 2009. UN Resolution 1540 was adopted in 2004 to prevent the proliferation of WMD (nuclear, chemical and biological weapons).
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12 October 2009
Kunio Mikuriya took advantage of the presence of Pakistan’s new Director General of Customs, Mr. Munir Qureshi, at WCO headquarters for a meeting of the SAFE Working Group
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08 October 2009
Since the launch of the joint Container Control Programme (CCP) between the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) in 2005
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06 October 2009
At the Aid for Trade Facilitation Workshop on 4 October 2009 in Istanbul, held as part of the Annual Meeting of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the IMF, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya highlighted Customs modernization efforts in partnership with business, and the resource implications for capacity building.
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05 October 2009
The 24th Meeting of CPLP Customs Directors General (Portuguese-speaking countries) took place in Porto (Portugal)from 28 September to 3 October 2009. Delegations from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste attended the meeting.
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02 October 2009
On 30 September 2009, the WCO Secretary General welcomed US Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary and Head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), John Morton, and his delegation. The main purpose of their visit was to discuss the continuing cooperative relationship between ICE and the WCO.
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02 October 2009
At the invitation of Mr. Vanco Kargov, Director General of Customs in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the WCO Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya, and the Vice Chair for the WCO Europe region
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