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30 September 2014
Upon the invitation of the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Senior Director, Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, the World Bank (WB), Ms. Anabel González visited the Headquarters of the WCO on 29 September 2014. The aim of the meeting was to further develop and promote cooperation between the two Organizations.
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29 September 2014
At the invitation of African Union, Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya participated in its Sub-Committee of Customs Directors General Meeting, held in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo on 25-26 September 2014.
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29 September 2014
As part of the overseas component of the Indian Customs Administration Mid Career Training Programme (MCTP), high-level Customs officers headed by Mr. Shri Bankey Behari Agrawal, Additional Director General of the National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN), visited WCO Headquarters on 26 September 2014.
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29 September 2014
A record haul of 171.2 kg of cocaine, worth some AED 200 million (54.5 million USD), was seized by Dubai Customs at the Jebel Ali Port on 25 September 2014. The cocaine was concealed in a banana shipment coming from South America.
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29 September 2014
The ninth and tenth National Policy Dialogues (NPDs) under the Finnish funded WCO ESA Project ‘Building Trade Capacity through Customs Modernization in the East and Southern Africa Region’ was held between the 9thand 12th September 2014 in Mozambique and Rwanda, respectively.
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29 September 2014
Following National Policy Dialogues (NPDs) held in Tanzania and Botswana, the Governments of the respective countries nominated five participants each from different agencies to visit ports and borders in Finland.
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25 September 2014
Following the deployment of the nCEN application in Eastern and Southern Africa, the WCO is planning a wider launch of the application globally.
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24 September 2014
The 2014/2015 WCO Career Development Programme started in Brussels at WCO Headquarters on Thursday 18 September 2014. The Programme was launched in 2009 by the WCO in cooperation with Japan Customs and provides an opportunity for selected candidates to work at the WCO Secretariat
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23 September 2014
At the invitation of the President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI), Dr. Jaime Zabludovsky, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya spoke at a breakfast meeting in Mexico City on 18 September 2014.
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23 September 2014
The World Customs Organization's (WCO) 9th Picard Conference took place in Puebla, Mexico from 17 to 19 September 2014. The Conference, hosted by the Tecnológico de Monterrey at Puebla in coordination with the Customs General Administration of Mexico, had some 180 registrants from over 35 countries representing WCO Members, academia, international organizations, the private sector and other interested parties.
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22 September 2014
Third series of record interceptions of products that are a threat to consumer health and safety
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22 September 2014
Deputy Secretary General Sergio Mujica visited the Czech Customs Administration on 15 and16 September 2014 to discuss and support the various projects currently underway in Czech Customs.
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19 September 2014
On 18 September 2014, Guatemala deposited with the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization its instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System).
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18 September 2014
The 2nd Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Customs Trade Facilitation Forum was held from 15 to 17 September 2014 in Bengaluru, India. Senior Customs Officials from the following IORA member countries attended the Forum; Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Yemen.
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17 September 2014
The newly appointed Head of Secretariat of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), Dr. Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, and the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, met in Geneva, Switzerland on 12 September 2014.
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16 September 2014
At the invitation of the Norwegian Customs Administration the Secretariat attended the Norwegian tariff classification seminar in Trondheim, Norway, from 10 to 11 September 2014.
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16 September 2014
His Excellency the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bhutan in Brussels, Mr. Sonam Tshong, deposited his country’s instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC) on 15 September 2014, making the Kingdom of Bhutan the 96th Contracting Party to this Convention.
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15 September 2014
The Commissioner of the Papua New Guinea Customs Service (PNGCS), Mr. Ray Paul, hosted a WCO Columbus Programme Phase 3 progress evaluation from 19 to 29 August 2014.
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12 September 2014
Deputy Secretary General attends international conference organized by the Eurasian Economic Commission
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12 September 2014
A WCO Capacity Building support mission was undertaken in Praia (Cape Verde) from the 25th to the 29th of August 2014 under the auspices of the WCO West African Customs Administrations Modernization (WACAM) project, funded by Sweden.
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09 September 2014
With sponsorship of Caribbean Export (EU), a Seminar on the Harmonized System (HS), Customs Valuation and the Revised Kyoto Convention was held in the Regional Training Center "Prof. Juan Bosch" of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), from 25 August to 5 September 2014.
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09 September 2014
In August 2014 a WCO Capacity Building support mission was undertaken in Ghana. This was the final mission in a series of inputs under the auspices of the West Africa Customs Administration Modernization (WACAM) Project, a WCO Capacity Building project funded by the Swedish government.
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05 September 2014
More than 330 delegates from 13 international organizations, 28 airlines, 27 airport authorities, and many private companies associated with the air cargo industry gathered in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of the P.R. of China for the ICAO Air Cargo Development Forum, held on 2-5 September 2014.
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03 September 2014
A delegation of some 30 participants from the National Resilience Institute of the Republic of Indonesia headed by the Lieutenant General (Air Force) Dede Rusamsi, Vice Governor of this Institute, visited the WCO on 2 September 2014, as part of the Institute’s Regular Strategic Study Programme on resilience.
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01 September 2014
His Excellency the Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia in Brussels has sent the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) the instrument of accession of his country to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC).
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