96th Congress DUBAI, UAE 25TH NOVEMBER, 2017 Contents Contents 3 Attendance 4 Present or Represented federations 6 Agenda 15 Validation of attendance and proxies 16 Address by the President of the FIE and address by the President 17 of the United Arab Emirates Fencing Federation Ratification of the New Federations 19 Approval of the report of the 2016 Congress held in Moscow (RUS) 20 The 2016 Report of the Executive Committee 21 The 2016 financial report, the auditors’ report, the approval of the 22 3 accounts, discharge to the Executive Committee and to the auditors Budget for 2018 23 Designation of the auditors 24 Restructuring of the FIE Rules 25 2020 Olympic Games 26 The Proposals submitted to the Congress, 28 reports of Commissions and Councils Voting to award the World Championships (J/C 2020: candidatures 48 of BUL, USA, Veterans 2019: candidature of EGY; Veterans 2020: candidatures of CRO, SLO) Nominations of Members of Honour 52 Award of the Challenge Chevalier Feyerick 53 Miscellaneous items 54 Annexes 58 Attendance The meeting opened at 10:00 am. Took place at the tribune: Mr. Alisher Usmanov (RUS) President Mr. Emmanuel Katsiadakis (MH, GRE) Secretary General Mrs. Ferial Nadira Salhi (ALG) Secretary-Treasurer Mr. Donald Anthony (USA) Vice-President Mr. Wei Wang (CHN) Vice-President Mrs. Ana Pascu (MH, ROU) Vice-President Mrs. Nathalie Rodriguez M.-H. CEO Mr. Evgeny Tsoukhlo Sport and Technical Director Members of the Executive Committee: Mr. Jacek Bierkowski (POL) Mr. Bence Szabo (HUN) Mrs. Erika Aze (LAT) 4 Mrs. Velichka Hristeva (BUL) Mr. Oleg Peskov (KAZ) Mr. Novak Perovic (RSA) Mr. Giorgio Scarso (ITA) Mrs. Isabelle Lamour (FRA) Mr. Pascal Tesch (LUX) Mr. Yuki Ota (JPN) Mr. Aldo Montano (ITA) (President of the Athletes Commission) Presidents of the Confederations: Mr. Stanislav Pozdnyakov (RUS) President of the European Confederation Mr. Vitaly Logvin (MEX) President of the Pan-American Confederation Mrs. Helen Smith (MH, AUS) President of the Oceanian Confederation Mr. Celso L. Dayrit (MH, PHI) President of the Asian Confederation Attendance Apologies received: Mr. René Roch (MH, FRA) President of Honour Mr. Mbagnick Ndiaye (SEN) President of the African Confederation Members of Honour: Mr. Samuel David Cheris (MH, USA) Mr. Peter Jacobs (MH, GBR) Mr. Stephen Higginson (MH, GBR) Mr. Bert van de Flier (MH, NED) Mr. Jenö Kamuti (MH, HUN) 5 Federations present or represented AFGHANISTAN Ahmad Tariq ROSHANGAR ALGERIA Ferial Nadira SALHI ANGOLA Domingos Pedro PASCOAL ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Ickford THOMAS ARGENTINA Victor Sergio GROUPIERRE Omar Alejandro VERGARA Julio Cesar ABATTI ARMENIA Armen GRIGORYAN Samvel ABRAHAMYAN ARUBA Represented by Uruguay AUSTRALIA Evelyn HALLS 6 AUSTRIA Ursula HINTERSEER AZERBAIJAN Mikayil JABBAROV Farkhad KASSIMOV BAHAMAS Represented by Costa Rica BAHRAIN Ibrahim Bin Salman AL KHALIFA Saleh Faraj SULTAN FARHAN BANGLADESH Islam QAMRUL BELGIUM Piet WAUTERS BELARUS Aliaksei AUSIANKIN Natalia TEREHOVA BELIZE Yolanda FONSECA Federations present or represented BENIN Jacques OKOUMASSOU BERMUDA Travis STEVENS Allison TUCKER BOLIVIA Erika BURGOS CUELLAR BRAZIL Ricardo PACHECO MACHADO Arno Perillier SCHNEIDER BRUNEI Nashriq MOKSIN Huzaimi KASSIM BULGARIA Velichka HRISTEVA BURKINA FASO Djibril ZEBA 7 CAMBODIA Sok ANG CAMEROON Marcel AMOUGOU CANADA Brad GOLDIE CHILE David MIRA JIMENEZ CHINA Haibin WANG Aihua XIAO Tong ZHAO COLOMBIA Vladimir IWANOFF COSTA RICA Luis Alberto CRUZ MELENDEZ CROATIA Marko KALLAY Reno MAROLT CUBA Alhajadis Ricardo BANDERAS MIRANDA Federations present or represented CYPRUS Antri NIKOLETTOU Panagiotis NIKOLETTOU CZECH REPUBLIC Oldrich KUBISTA Jiri BERAN Senior Jiri BERAN Junior DENMARK Jan Sylvest JENSEN DOMINICA Woodrow LAWRENCE ECUADOR Lorena ARROYO Carlos ECHEVERRIA CORDOBA EGYPT Abdel Monein Elhamy EL HUSSEINY Mohamed EL MOTAWAKEL Gamil ELZEFTAWI EL SALVADOR Gen. de Division David MUNGUIA PAYES 8 ESTONIA Margus HANSON FINLAND Terho MUSTONEN Lena TALLROTH - KOCK FRANCE Jean – Michel LUCENAY GEORGIA David SAKHVADZE Zaza MCHEDLIDZE GHANA Mohamed MAHADI EQUATORIAL GUINEA Frederico MODU EBUKA GERMANY Dieter LAMMER Claus JANKA Wilfried WOLFGARTEN Claudia BOKEL Reka SZABO Gordon RAPP Federations present or represented GREECE Emmanuel KATSIADAKIS GREAT BRITAIN Hilary PHILBIN Georgina USHER GUAM Anthony R. CAMACHO GUATEMALA Otto Rene VALLADARES BALDERRAMOS GUYANA Samuel BARAKAT HAITI Louis Dukerns JOSEPH HONDURAS Marco Antonio IZAGUIRRE RODRIGUEZ HONG KONG Alexander N.W. YEUNG Ka Leung LIU 9 HUNGARY Zsolt CSAMPA Gabor BOCZKO ICELAND Nikolay Ivanov MATEEV INDONESIA Agus SUPARMANTO INDIA Rajeev MEHTA IRAN Fazlollah BAGHERZADEH Peyman FAKHRI IRAQ Zeyad Hassan JASIM Alaa LABEEB IRELAND Nuala MC GARRITY Federations present or represented ITALY Alessandro NOTO IVORY COAST Souleymane SAKHO JAMAICA James MCBEAN JAPAN Nobusuke MIYAWAKI Mamoru SAITA Yuko KATO KADOWAKI JORDAN Khaled ATIYAT Wasim HAMMAD KAZAKHSTAN Rushidin KICHIKOV KYRGYZSTAN Osmonjan KASYMOV Ainura TEMIRALIEVA KOREA Heon Cheol SHIN 10 Wankun OH Bokyung KIM LATVIA Klinta AZE LEBANON Georges ZEIDAN Ziad EL CHOUEIRI President of the Mediterranean Fencing Confederation LITHUANIA Vytautas POLUJANSKAS LUXEMBOURG Pascal TESCH LIBYA Dhw Ali TOUMI MADAGASCAR Jackie RANDRIAMALALA MALAYSIA Rusni ABU HASSAN Ainaa FARIK Federations present or represented MALTA Represented by Italy MEXICO Jorge CASTRO REA MOLDOVA Olga COJOCARI MONACO Georges PRAT Marie Therese PRAT MONGOLIA Dashnyam GANZORIG Nomundari ZORIGTBAATAR MOROCCO Youssef FATHI MALI Zorome WAHABOU MAURITIUS Sarna RAMLOLL 11 Veena Devi GUNPUT MYANMAR Kyaw Moe NAING NAMIBIA Herman STRYDOM NEPAL Sunil Kumar SHRESTHA NETHERLANDS Etienne VAN CANN NEW ZEALAND Victoria LAMB NICARAGUA Represented by El Salvador NIGERIA Rachael SAMUEL NORWAY Represented by Denmark Federations present or represented PALESTINE Daoud Sobhi ALMITWALI PANAMA Jaime RAMOS PARAGUAY Carlos Ramiro VIVEROS BARBOZA Griselda Raquel MENDOZA GODOY PERU Rafael ZARIQUIEY NUNEZ PHILIPPINES Leah GONZALEZ Maria Leonor ESTAMPADOR POLAND Jacek SLUPSKI Tadeusz TOMASZEWSKI PORTUGAL Frederico VALARINHO Clauso NEVES PUERTO RICO Juan Carlos RAMIREZ 12 ROMANIA Laura Gabriela CARLESCU - BADEA Marius FLOREA Anca Ioana Ileana IONESCU SOUTH AFRICA Michael STAFFORD RUSSIA Alexander MIKHAILOV Ilgar MAMEDOV SAMOA Represented by New Zealand KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA Ahmed ALSABBAN SENEGAL Oumar MAIGA SERBIA Dejan RUSKI Vukasin STOSIC Federations present or represented SINGAPORE Francis Yat Ping KWONG SLOVAK REPUBLIC Tatiana DROBNA Attila ERSEK SLOVENIA Tomaz PORS Natasa MUCIBABIC SPAIN Marco A. RIOJA PEREZ Antonio GARCIA HERNANDEZ Jose Luis ALVAREZ GIL DE TEJADA SRI LANKA Ajith SIYMBALAPITIYA SWITZERLAND Olivier CARRARD SWEDEN Otto DRAKENBERG 13 Ana VALERO-COLLANTES Pierre THULLBERG SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC Ahmad ALREFAAI CHINESE TAIPEI Kovacs LIN TAJIKISTAN Azim YAKUBOV THAILAND Somded Admiral TONGPIAM Jakravudh SOMAPEE TUNISIA Zaida KHALSI Ep. DOGHRI Salah FERJANI TURKEY Murat ATALI Muminhan BILGIN TURKMENISTAN Meret MEREDOV Vyacheslav VORONIN Federations present or represented UKRAINE Vadym GUTTSAIT UNITED ARAB EMIRATES HH.ENGR.SHEIKH SALEM Sultan S.Alqasimi Huda AL MATROOSHI Ibrahim Khaled IBRAHIM Mohamed Ghanem AL-MANSOURI Hamad Abdulla Ibrahim Mohamed ALMANSOORI UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Stacey JOHNSON Carl BORACK Theodore LI Christine SIMMONS Michael MACK URUGUAY Ariel PEIRANO Lourdes TRAPOTE UZBEKISTAN Rustam SHAABDURAKHMONOV 14 VIETNAM Le Quang PHUNG VIRGIN ISLANDS Represented by Dominica YEMEN Hussain Ben Naser AL SHAREEF Mohammed AL-SALEHI AGENDA 1. Validation of attendance and proxies Address by the President of the FIE and address by the President 2. of the United Arab Emirates Fencing Federation 3. Ratification of the New Federations 4. Approval of the report of the 2016 Congress held in Moscow (RUS) 5. 2016 Report of the Executive Committee 2016 financial report, auditors’ report, approval of the accounts, 6. discharge to the Executive Committee and to the auditors 7. Budget for 2018 15 8. Designation of the auditors 9. Restructuring of the FIE Rules 10. 2020 Olympic Games The proposals submitted to the Congress, reports of Commissions 11. and Councils 12. Voting to award the World Championships · J/C 2020: candidatures of BUL, USA · Veterans 2019: candidature of EGY · Veterans 2020: candidatures of CRO, SLO 13. Nominations of Members of Honour 14. Award of the Challenge Chevalier Feyerick 15. Miscellaneous items 1. VALIDATION OF ATTENDANCE AND PROXIES Nathalie Rodriguez: We will proceed to the roll call. When I call the name of your federation please raise your hand so that we can give you the voting device. I will start with the federations that are present and then we will continue with the proxies. Afghanistan Croatia Jamaica Palestine Algeria Cuba Jordan Poland Angola Cyprus Japan Portugal Antigua and Barbuda Czech Republic Kazakhstan Puerto Rico Argentina Denmark Kyrgyzstan Qatar – is not here? Armenia Dominica Korea Romania Aruba – Aruba is not here? Dominican Republic – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia South Africa Australia Dominican Republic is not Latvia Russia Austria here? Libya Serbia Azerbaijan Ecuador Lebanon Senegal Bangladesh Egypt Lithuania Singapore Barbados – Barbados is not El Salvador Luxemburg Sierra Leone – Sierra Leone here Spain Macao – Macao is here? No. is not here? Belgium Estonia Madagascar Slovenia Benin Finland Morocco Sri Lanka Bermuda France Malaysia Switzerland Belize Gabon – Gabon is not here? Moldova Slovakia Belarus Great Britain Mexico Sweden Bolivia Georgia Mongolia Syria Botswana – Is Botswana