2018 Annual General Assembly – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Website now available

This year, the ICOMOS Annual General Assembly and Advisory Committee will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 4-8 December 2018, on the generous invitation of ICOMOS Argentina.

Official website

Consult the site http://adcom2018.icomos.org.ar/en/ for all practical information – registration, hotels etc. (versions of the site in French and Spanish are also available). Registration will be open until 19 October 2018. Before registering - please consult in particular the page "Information for Delegates" and after registering - please carefully read the information provided by the Conference Organiser and keep an eye on the updates on the website.

You will find the programme available in pdf at the following links: French, English and Spanish.

The agenda of the Annual General Assembly, on 6 December (9:00 - 11:00 am) will focus on receiving the reports of the ICOMOS President and Treasurer on the management by the Board and the health and financial situation of the association; approving the annual report and accounts and discharging the Board, as well as voting next year’s budget. (ref. ICOMOS e-News n°156 of 27 April 2018).

All other matters such as adoption of doctrinal texts, elections of the Board and officers, conferring of Honorary membership, voting the ICOMOS General Programme and budgetary guidelines for the next triennium, as well as proposing resolutions for adoption by ICOMOS will be dealt with by the next triennial General Assembly (2020, Sydney, Australia).

All members shall have the right to attend the General Assembly and may be designated to be a voting member at the General Assembly within the conditions set out in Articles 9-a and 13-d-4 of the Statutes. Please note that additional Committee observers and voting members (beyond the Committee Presidents or their designated representative) are asked to contribute a registration fee.

Working documents

The Preliminary Agenda for the Annual General Assembly is now available in English, French and Spanish.

The Preliminary Agenda for the Scientific Symposium is now available in English/Spanish and French.

The Preliminary Agenda for the World Heritage Information Session is now available in English, French and Spanish.

The other working documents (e.g. financial report) will be posted on the General Assembly’s website (here) and circulated via the ICOMOS e-News.

Remote participation at the meetings

The Annual General Assembly and Advisory Committee meetings will be made available as video recordings or via streaming to ICOMOS members – via the ICOMOS website. More information will be posted closer to the meeting date.

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