Al Ali: Ready to support and back the federation under Al Hamad’s leadership to achieve
the yellow continent’s ambitions
HE Salah bin Ghanem Al Ali, Minister of Youth and Sport, opened the proceedings of the Asian Athletics Association’s 78th annual board meeting in the conference hall of the InterContinental – City
Doha, attended by Major General Dahlan Jumaan Al Hamad, president of the Asian and Qatari athletics federations and IAAF vice-president, along with all board members and Ukrainian Sergey Bubka, vice-president of the IAAF. During the meeting many files and topics on the agenda were reviewed, most notably approving the minutes of the 77th meeting held in China last September, and reports on recent continental championships were also reviewed, namely the Asian Indoor Championships held in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, and the cross country championship held in Japan last month, in addition to discussing the calendar of upcoming championships to be organised by the federation this year, 2014, and next year, 2015, and the federation’s financial report, and the strategic plan was reviewed along with discussion of a proposal for a Grand Prix meeting
A heartfelt address
HE the Minister of Youth and Sport, Salah bin Ali Al Ghanem, had
opened the meeting’s proceedings with a heartfelt welcoming address at the Asian sporting gathering, praising in it the wonderful and positive Asian attendance for gathering in the city of sport and peace to discuss the horizons and future of the mother of sports in Asia and to set a roadmap, wishing the assembled success in the annual meeting of the Asian family of the mother of sports, so as to translate ideas and proposals into work and results that contribute to moving the sport forward, and expressing his personal readiness to offer any support and backing that the Asian athletics family, led by brother Dahlan Al Hamad, president of the Asian and Qatari federations, sees fit, to contribute to the wheel of development and to programmes for advancement, expressing his hope once again that Asian athletics achieves its intended goals
A Qatari invitation to Asians
His Excellency took the opportunity of the Asian gathering to invite the Asian family to attend the Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence today to take part in the brainstorming meeting on Qatar’s sports strategy and future, considering their presence a gain and an opportunity to learn from everyone’s experience and ideas in serving sport
Al Hamad thanks the minister
On behalf of the Asian Athletics Association family, Major General Dahlan Al Hamad extended deep thanks and gratitude to Minister Al Ghanem for honouring and sponsoring the proceedings of the Asian federation’s annual meeting, which gave a shining picture of our wise leadership and the state officials’ awareness of the role of sport and its importance in building bridges of connection, friendship and affection between nations and peoples
