Qatar School Sport Association (QSA) secretary general Ali al-Hitmi said that the International School Sport Federation (ISF) officials got a positive impression about Qatar and its abilities during the 2009 Gymnastics meet.
By Sports Reporter/Doha
The convention of the International School Sport Federation (ISF) will begin in Doha tomorrow with participation of representatives from 51 countries.
The event will conclude on March 20, 2015. The convention is an indication of great trust of the ISF in the organisational abilities of the Qatar School Sport Association (QSA) and the state of Qatar.
The QSA under the leadership of Rabea al-Kaabi has completed its arrangements for the ISF convention to be staged at Doha Marriot Hotel with attendance of 81 officials in addition to the chairpersons of the Continental School Sport Federations.
The Qatari delegation will be chaired by the QSA secretary general Ali al-Hitmi and will include the QSA executive director Abdulrahman al-Muftah and the QSA assistant secretary general Nasser al-Malki.
Few hours before the international convention, the QSA secretary general Ali al-Hitmi stressed that selecting Doha to host the event was due the trust of the ISF officials in the Qatar’s abilities as the ISF members elected the representative of the state of Qatar to be a member in the ISF Executive Committee during the election held a year before.
Al-Himi said that the ISF officials got a positive impression about Qatar and its abilities during the 2009 Gymnastics meet, when the current ISF president Laurent Petrynka was a member of the ISF Executive Committee.
“Doha convention will be the first meeting for the ISF members, after the election of its new president and members a year ago,” al-Hitmi Added.
“The ISF Convention offers an opportunity to the national associations to exchange, discuss ideas and develop together as per the Vision 2030, by drafting the first strategic ideas for the future of the ISF with ISF members, experts and authorities,” said the QSA secretary general.
Al-Hitmi reaffirmed that the importance of the Doha convention is that it will lay foundation for the ISF strategy during the upcoming years.
The convention will conclude on Saturday with a meeting for the ISF Executive Committee with attendance of Qatar’s Abdulrahman al-Muftah, the QSA executive director.
Workshops and sessions on various themes in relation to world school sport development will make up the agenda. Each workshop will end up into five recommendations that will be approved by the Executive Committee in October 2015 and later on, will be adopted by the general assembly in July 2016. Moreover, a report book, addressed to all national and international federations, will be publically published in order to convey recommendations regarding school sport.