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Report of the General assembly of the FMJD 2013 September 23,2013, Wageningen, Netherlands page 1 Present: Members of the Executive Board : Harry Otten President, Jacek Pawlicki Tournament Director also representing Poland and a mandate for Hungary, Frits Luteijn Treasurer, Frank Teer General Secretary and President Technical Committee, Johan Demasure Tournament Director Youth also representing Belgium, Vladimir Langin President Section 64 Russian/Brazilian, Ingo Zachos representing the Section Checkers, Janek Mäggi President of the European Draughts Confederation, Jean Marc Ndjofang representing the African Draughts Confederation also representing Cameroon, World Champion Alexander Georgiev. New Executive board member, replacing Alexander Georgiev as players representative : Harmen Wiersma. Johan Bastiaannet FMJD Bureau director Members of committees and sections : Mouhamadoul Moustapha Diop , President of the Ethical Committee, also representing Senegal, Adama Gueye Senegal, representing the Medical Committee, with mandate for Mali, Aare Harak, President of the Financial Committee , Rima Danileviciene, member of the Technical Committee and member of the Board of EDC, Alexander Nikiforov member of the Board of the Section 64 Russian/Brazilian. Translators: Richard Przewozniak , translator French-Russian, also representing France , Vitalia Doumesh , translator English-Russian and Harry Kolk translator English-French, Representatives of federations : Boris Mushailov for Azerbaidjan, Anatoli Gantvarg for Belarus, Eli T. Padonou for Benin, Guibrine Sawadogo for Burkina Faso, Jinjuan Xia , Secretary of the federation of China and Cindy Li Kaimin , translator English-Chinese, Tarmo Tulva for Estonia with a mandate for Latvia , Jan Zioltkowski for Germany, Carlo Bordini Vice President FID for Italy , Edmond Beugre for Ivory Coast, Airat Nurgaziyev for Kazakhstan, Edvard Bužinskij for Lithuania, Marcel Kosters for the Netherlands with a mandate from Brazil, Oleg Dashkov for Russia, Ali Kadir Benzer for Turkey, Anatoli Yatsenko for Ukraine, Igor Rybakov for the USA, Yunus Amindjonov for Uzbekistan. A total of 22 federations is present and 4 more have given a mandate. They all fulfilled their financial obligations so all 26 have voting right. Assistants: Viktoria Lehtmets , director of the bureau of the EDC, Ivan Shovkoplias for Ukraine, Alisher Artikov for Uzbekistan, Atse N’cho Joel for Ivory Coast, Irina Pashkievich for Belarus, Dasmané Ouedraogo and Adama Kone for Burkina Faso, Antonina Langina for the Section 64 Russian/Brazilian, Tom Mankowski for Germany, Farhad Huseynov for Azerbaijan, Petro Kravets for Ukraine, Hans Vermeulen and Johan Haijtink for Netherlands, Hassan Yigittürk for translation Turkish-Dutch, Julien Affaton for Benin. 2. Opening and Welcome The President Mr. Otten opens the meeting at 10:05 with a welcome in the 750 year old town of Wageningen after the successful World Cup tournament that was won by the young talents Roel Boomstra from the Netherlands and Natalia Sadowska from Poland. The General Secretary mentions the federations which are present. All federations present have voting right. Report of the General assembly of the FMJD 2013 September 23,2013, Wageningen, Netherlands page 2 He called all of these countries: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, which has given a mandate to Netherlands, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy , Cote d’Ivoire, Kazakhstan, Latvia which has given a mandate for Mr. Mäggi from Estonia, Lithuania, Mali has given a mandate to Senegal, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Turkey, Ukraine, United states of America, Uzbekistan and there is a mandate for Poland from Hungary. So there are 26 federations present here or represented via a mandate. So if we are going to vote the maximum number of votes can be 26. The president gives a special welcome to our new members Turkey and Benin and to Italy that wants to be more active in FMJD the coming years. The president wants to go to point 3 and asks for additional items on the agenda. Oleg Dashkov, Russia: When have the federations of Turkey and Benin become member of FMJD, which General Assembly has approved their membership? Frank Teer, General Secretary FMJD: Turkey has become member in March 2013 and Benin in 2012 during the Championship of Africa. The special welcome as new members was also meant to be asking your approval of course. If you do not approve please say so. Anatoli Yatsenko, Ukraine , proposes to add to the third point of our agenda a small introduction of Turkey and Benin as federations; what do they want of FMJD and what are people thinking about that and then vote for them. President Otten invites Turkey and Benin to tell something about their plans for their membership of FMJD. Ali Kadir Benzer, Turkey: The Turkish Draughts Federation was created in February 2013 and asked for membership of FMJD in March 2013, received provisional membership and paid the membership fee. In Turkey we are developing two kinds of draughts: the major kind of draughts is Dama (Turkish Draughts) and we also want to introduce the 10 * 10 game. We have professional plans to develop Dama (Turkish Draughts) and international draughts with lessons on schools and educating trainers with the help of the Turkish Government. Elie Padonou, Benin: Benin participated in the World Championship teams in Dakar 2006 and in the African Championship 2012. We are member of the African Confederation since 2006. 3. asking for additional items on the agenda or changing the order of the agenda. Anatoli Gantvarg, Belarus: I ask for an additional point on the agenda: We came from very far to participate in the General Assembly in a legal manner I see in this agenda points of the FMJD board. The FMJD board came not together from 26.10.2011 until August 2013 and according to the rules FMJD board should come together 4 times a year. We propose to cancel all points from the FMJD Board on the agenda. Mr. Otten asks if this is a proposal for the agenda? I don’t want to let this meeting be lead by you. We have to stick to the agenda. If you have other points you have to do that when it is in order. When you want to talk about the board there is a special point on the agenda for it. Anatoli Gantvarg, Belarus: because FMJD board did not come together 4 times a year all its decisions are illegitimate. So my proposal for the agenda is that all points of the FMJD board should be cancelled. President Otten: do you want to cancel the whole agenda and close the meeting, is that what you want? Report of the General assembly of the FMJD 2013 September 23,2013, Wageningen, Netherlands page 3 Mr. Otten asks for a vote about the proposal of Mr. Gantvarg to remove all points of the FMJD board from the agenda. Mr. Gantvarg: you cannot vote statutes, you have to understand. Mr. Otten asks for a vote and concludes that nobody in favor so the proposal is rejected. We will come to the board of FMJD in a later agenda point. I give the word to Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso: To be able to have a good meeting we want to propose that the point of the section 64 is to be treated at the end of the Agenda and not in point 9 or 10 to get a more orderly agenda. Harry Otten, President FMJD formulates the proposal in English. Oleg Dashkov, Russia: Maybe this point should be treated at the General Assembly 64 and not here. Otten: Section 64 Russian/Brazilian is part of FMJD, so we can treat proposals of our federations in this meeting. Who is in favor of the proposal of Burkina Faso about the points of section 64? Vladimir Langin, President Section 64 Russian/Brazilian: Mr. Langin speaks very long in Russian, not giving opportunity to the translators to translate his words correctly. It is not normal that points of section 64 are going to be discussed on the FMJD General Assembly and that he has not been invited for meetings of the FMJD Executive Board. Russia is one of the most important countries in financial matters etc. The proposals about the section 64 should be treated before the elections at point 9. Russia, Dashkov: We agree with this Vladimir Langin, president section 64 Russian/Brazilian: Section-64 issues should be addressed to the country's where draughts 64 is developed. For Benin: In St. Petersburg in 2013, representatives of seven African countries took part at the World Championships. In Zambia in 2014 will be the first championship-64 of Africa. President Otten: yes, but that is not on the agenda now, on the agenda now is if we should discuss the points of section 64 at the end of the agenda. It is my decision that we talked enough about it now and we will vote about it now. Who is in favor or against the proposal of Burkina Faso. There are 19 votes in favor and 6 votes against. So the point Section 64 is moved to the end of the agenda. Jacek Pawlicki speaking for the Polish federation (in Russian language and in English): Mr Langin says that Russia is one of the most important federations in the world for some criteria. I was asking him very kindly: let’s try to be as friendly as possible and I don’t think that Russia is the most important federation in the world. We are all equal and we are all friends, also the Polish federation, Benin, Burkina Faso , Netherlands, Hungary, we are all the same. There is no most important federation here. Oleg Dashkov, Russia: We organize many tournaments and spent enormous funds. Only in 2013 we spent about 500,000 euros. If they say we are equal to Benin we do not agree with that. President Otten: I understand your point but in FMJD there is not one country that is more important than the other countries.

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