1. WELCOME
President and Chairperson Dr. Sugano greeted everyone present. He noted that delegates of 5 countries or regions were represented in this meeting.
2. ATTENDANCE
The following is a list of those present. Voting members, one per member country or region as indicated.
|
Country or Region
|
Name
|
Voting
|
Korea
|
Ja-June Jang
Yong-Soon Lee |
O
|
Philippine
|
Filipinas F. Natividad |
O
|
China
|
Qin Chuan
Wei Qiang |
O
|
Thai
|
Parntep Ratanakorn |
O
|
Japan
|
Toshio Ito
Katsuhiro Fukuta |
O
|
The representative of Taiwan was absent.
Executive Board Member (Term of service: November,2003 to May,2004)
Shigeru Sugano, President
Yong-Soon Lee, Vice-President
Qin Chuan, Vice-President
Noriyuki Kasai, Secretary General
Chin-En Tsai, Auditor (Absent)
Other attendances from Japan as the members of host association for organizing the meeting: Takatoshi Kuhara, Tsutomu Miki Kurosawa, Yukihisa Matsuda, Toru R. Saito, Masayoshi Kuwahara
3. TITLE and ABSENCE of TAIWAN SOCIETY in THE MEETING
Dr. Kasai explained the problem and process of the title of Taiwan Society until now. He also mentioned the reason why delegates from Taiwan Society were absent in this Council Meeting.
The comments received included:
- need opinions from China (Korea)
- Chinese Taipei Society of Laboratory Animal Science is best (China)
- will wait the decision of Taiwan Society in the annual meeting in coming November (Thai)
It was agreed to the proposal of Dr. Kasai that the statement regarding the tiltle of the Taiwan Society will be sent to Taiwan Society as an offer of AFLAS Council meeting.
4. FINANCES and ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEE
Dr. Kasai mentioned about a balance sheet of AFLAS finance up to now. He also proposed an annual membership fee for each member. After extensive discussions, the amount of annual membership fee from the 2005 fiscal year was decided as follows
Japan $2000, China $1000, Korea $1000,
Thai $200, Philippine $200, Taiwan $1000
5. AFLAS Journal
Although we discussed about establishment of AFLAS Journal including finances such as sponsor of the Journal, it was decided that this issue will be further discussed.
6. ELECTION of MEMBERS for 2004 – 2006 YEAR’S
(1) Council members of each association or society
China: Qin Chuan
Japan: Toshio Itoh
Korea: Ja June Jang
Philippine: Filipinas F. Nativiedad
Thailand Parntep Ratanakorn
Taiwan:
(2) Executive Board Member (Term of service: May,2004 to Council meeting of 2006)
President: Yong-Soon Lee
Immediate past-President: Shigeru Sugano
Vice-Presidents: Qin Chuan
The other Vice-Presidents: The candidate will be recommended from Japan in future.
Secretary General: Noriyuki Kasai (until Taiwan issue will be solved). The candidate for next SG will be recommended from Korea in future.
Auditor: Filipinas F. Natividad
7. THE COUNCIL MEETING of AFLAS
The members confirmed the next Council Meeting of AFLAS would be held in Soul, Korea at June 2005.
The members also confirmed that The Second Congress of AFLAS (2006) would be prepared by Korea as the next organizer.
8. ANY OTHER BUSINESS
Dr. Natividad proposed that we should invite other Asian countries (Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong etc.) to join us as AFLAS members.
Registration fee of AFLAS Congress for the Council Members except Host Members could be paid from AFLAS.
