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Minutes of 7th General Assembly of Asian Confederation of Popular Sports (IVV-ASIA )

1. On February 19th 2023, the 7th General Assembly of Asian Confederation of Popular Sports (IVV-ASIA) was held at La Quinta Hotel and Suites in San Antonio, Texas USA.
2. The opening comment in letter was from IVV-ASIA-President Mr. Miyashita.
3. The greeting address was given by IVV-President Mr. Colantonio.
4. The welcoming address to the IVV-ASIA Delegates was given from Ms. Wittenberg, the chair of AVA.
5. Two delegates from IVV-ASIA, Taiwan, and Japan were present at the meeting.
　The delegates welcomed IVV-presidium members as supervisors.
6. In accordance with the statues, IVV-ASIA-Secretary Kawauchi (at the time of meeting) was nominated as the chair by Mr. Miyashita’s letter.
7. Financial report was presented by IVV-ASIA Secretary Kawauchi and approved.
8. Mr. Kawauchi M of Japan was elected as the next IVV-ASIA-President 2023-2026.
9. All the four vice-Presidents were re-elected.
　Mr. Pan-Nan Huang of Taiwan
　Mr. Vladimir Menovshchikov of Ginseng Group, Vladivostok
　Ms. Fitriani Kuroda of Indonesia
　Mr. Sang Kyu Sun of Korea (?)
10. The 6th Asianpiad 2024 was elected to be held in Suncheon Korea. The date of the event was not confirmed.
11. The final address was done by New IVV-ASIA-President Kawauchi and the congress was closed.

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　Messages from IVV-ASIA

IVV-Congress of Delegates was held on August 23th Kehl Germany.
The situation of IVV-ASIA members during COVID-19 with the slides was presented inthe Congress.
IVV Congress of Delegates 2024 in Canberra, Australia, IVV-Olympiad 2025 in Tampere, Finland and other motions are discussed and decided.
IVV-Olympiad will be held in San Antonio, Texas, USA, in February 2023. We hope we will have IVV-ASIA General Meeting over there.

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　Messages from IVV-ASIA

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　IMPORTANT NOTICE

・IVV-Asianpiad in Vladivostok 2022 was cancelled.
・IVV-Olympid in Seoul 2022 was canncelled.

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　Dear Walking Friends of IVV-Asia;
We hope you are living well, even though the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 dos e not drawing to the end. To our great regret, the 5th Asianpiad in Vladivostok was postponed to the next year.
In order to keep and develop a friendship among the countries of IVV-Asia, we w ould like to propose the positive exchange of information of walking events in e ach country via internet.
We would like to make mutual link of each Asian country’s website, so that all Asian walkers can easily get walking events information of other countries.

IVV-Asia
Table: Address of homepage of 5 countries
Japan：http://ivv-jva.com/ 　　　　 （Japanese）
:http://ivv-jva.com/img/2020JVAIVVbook.pdf （English）
Korea：http://www.walking.or.kr　 （Korea）
:http://www.walking.or.kr/agency/user/kapa/english.html（English）
Taiwan：http://www.mountaineering.org.tw/tw/ (Chinese）
:http://www.mountaineering.org.tw/en/ （English）
Indonesia：http://www.jogjaheritagewalk.com/ （English）
Russia：http://lhzh.ru/ （Russian）

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　Dear IVV-ASIA Walking Friends;
We have deicided that the new schedule of 5th Asianpiad in Vladivostok will be O ctober 23rd-24th 2021.

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　Dear IVV-ASIA Walking Friends;
We have just received the postponement notice of the ５th Asianpiad　in Vladivos tok. The alternative date will be notified later.

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　Dear IVV-ASIA Walking Friends;
We have just received the cancellation notice of the 13th Taiwan IVV Walking as below.

On behalf of CTAA's president Pan-Nan Huang, I would like to inform the IVV-Asia that the 13th Taiwan IVV WWD Walking festival, which is scheduled to be held on April 25.26, is canceled due to the COVID-19 disease in Taiwan and around the g lobe. In response to the situation, CTAA cooperates with our government to preve nt the epidemic by avoiding activities involving a large number of people.
This event always involves thousands of people. To protect the health and safety of all participants, the event is decided to be canceled. The event will be sus pended until the next year. We believe that all Asian countries will stand toget her to fight this severe disease and the situation will be getting better.
Also, We wish all the IVV-Asian friends healthy and well during this difficult t ime.

Sincerely,
黃偉峰 中華民國山岳協會, 國際組
Wei-Feng Huang, Chinese Taipei Alpine Association(CTAA), Chief of Foreign Affair s http://www.mountaineering.org.tw

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The 4th Asianpiad was held in Jogjakarta, Indonesia on 17th and 18th November 2018.

　On the previous day, 16th Friday, The IVV-ASIA Congress was held. After the congress, Inter national flag parade was with the IVV-international flag, and IVV-ASIA flag.

　More than 350 international walkers from 25 countries Visited Jogjakarta for the Asianpiad.