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28 September 2010
The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, and Rashid Khalikov, Director of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between both organizations at WCO Headquarters on 27 September 2010.
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23 September 2010
At the invitation of the Director General of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), Edouard Dayan, the WCO Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya, spoke at the UPU Strategy Conference in Nairobi (Kenya) on 22 September 2010 to enhance cooperation between Customs and Post in combating illicit trade while facilitating legitimate postal traffic.
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14 September 2010
WCO Deputy Secretary General, Sergio Mujica, visited Poland from 14-16 September 2010 at the invitation of the Polish Customs Service to take part in their Customs Service Day celebrations
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14 September 2010
On19 August 2010, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention establishing a Customs Co-operation Council with the Belgian Government.
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10 September 2010
Secretary General Mikuriya paid a visit on 9 September 2010 to Dr. SAKONG Il, Chairman of the Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, during his stay in Seoul to discuss Customs' contribution message to the G20. Dr. SAKONG Il, a former Finance Minister, is in charge of preparing the forthcoming G20 Seoul Summit as part of Korea’s G20 presidency.
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10 September 2010
At the invitation of Commissioner YOON Young-Sun of the Korea Customs Service, Secretary General Mikuriya attended the opening ceremony of the WCO Asia-Pacific Regional Training Center (RTC) at the Korea Customs Border Control Training Center (CBCTC) in Cheonan, Korea on 8 September 2010.
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10 September 2010
The food crisis, especially rising prices caused by shortages, has re-emerged as a severe global problem, in particular for developing countries.
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10 September 2010
The food crisis, especially rising prices caused by shortages, has re-emerged as a severe global problem, in particular for developing countries.
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08 September 2010
On 02-03 September, the WCO participated in a Conference called “From Vision to Reality: A new and Holistic Approach to Fighting Corruption” in Vienna, Austria
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08 September 2010
On the 8-9th of September 2010, the WCO Director of Capacity Building, mr. Lars Karlsson, visited Baku in Azerbaijan to review the progress of the establishment of the Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB)
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08 September 2010
With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York on 20-22 September to accelerate progress towards the MDGs
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07 September 2010
At the invitation of Director General Tudor Balitchi of Moldova Customs Service, WCO Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya, visited Chisinau from 3-5 September to attend Moldova’s National Customs Day celebrations that took place on 4 September. He also met Prime Minister Vladimir Filat and Minister of Finance Veaceslav Negruta to discuss Customs reform.
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07 September 2010
The Ukrainian Academy of Customs was designated as the home of the Regional Training Centre at the European Regional Meeting of Heads of Customs in Ohrid in March and the Memorandum of Understanding with the WCO was signed during the June Council Sessions
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05 September 2010
Under the auspices of the Columbus programme, the WCO conducted a mission to assist the Ecuadorian Customs administration in preparing for the development and implementation of an Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) programme in the future
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05 September 2010
From 6 to 10 September 2010, the World Customs Organization (WCO) Secretariat conducted an Integrity Self-Assessment Workshop for the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA
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04 September 2010
The 31st of August the 6th Steering Committee Meeting within the WCO-EAC Trade Facilitation and Customs Modernization project was conducted in Kigali, Rwanda. This regional project is one of the components of the SIDA Sub-Saharan contribution. The main objective of the Steering Committee Meeting was to adopt the draft regional Standard Operational Procedures for Risk Management
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