Saturday, February 24, 2007
Talks with MENA
After the announcement of the new directors - 6 out of around 20 - the atmosphere at the Official Dinner was quite emotional, therefore we postponed the meeting with the MENA countries in order to get to know to their perspective on the extensions to this evening.
We met today right between dinner and Legislation Talks where we offered the delegates to ask us in a more structured environment about the extension initiatives. In the run-up to this meeting we had been provided with some questions from MENA they would like to discuss, as well as we handed in some questions we had to them. In short the questions were about how we will cooperate with MENA, what our approaches are to build up AIESEC in Palestine and Israel as well as what is the general time line and if MENA will be the proposed GN the countries will be part of; media presence and how to communicate the difficulties with these countries for parts of the AIESEC network were also points we talked about.
It was a very good meeting, many questions were raised and the atmosphere was frank and open. E.g. Iran will get the support of most of the MENA countries.
In the Legislation Talks that just came to an end I really felt relaxed and smiled the whole time
like I didn't do for days. I guess the Legislation tomorrow will go well - at least we will have a good time. I will tell you right after the Legislation what decision was taken - so be onlien and stay tuned!
CU, good night - Africa/MENA-party this evening/night.
We met today right between dinner and Legislation Talks where we offered the delegates to ask us in a more structured environment about the extension initiatives. In the run-up to this meeting we had been provided with some questions from MENA they would like to discuss, as well as we handed in some questions we had to them. In short the questions were about how we will cooperate with MENA, what our approaches are to build up AIESEC in Palestine and Israel as well as what is the general time line and if MENA will be the proposed GN the countries will be part of; media presence and how to communicate the difficulties with these countries for parts of the AIESEC network were also points we talked about.
It was a very good meeting, many questions were raised and the atmosphere was frank and open. E.g. Iran will get the support of most of the MENA countries.
In the Legislation Talks that just came to an end I really felt relaxed and smiled the whole time
like I didn't do for days. I guess the Legislation tomorrow will go well - at least we will have a good time. I will tell you right after the Legislation what decision was taken - so be onlien and stay tuned!
CU, good night - Africa/MENA-party this evening/night.
