Subject: [AFREF-7] RE: [AFREF-6] Rome meetting and Cooperation
From: "Kumar, Muneendra" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: "'Muftah Unis'" <[email-masked]>, Anwar SIALA <[email-masked]>, ali swassi <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], Abdelmajid CHAARI <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], Mohamed OULD BRAHIM <[email-masked]>, Ludwig Combrinck <[email-masked]>, Khier Bouchibi <[email-masked]>, Fezzani Chedly <[email-masked]>, Fethi Benhamouda <[email-masked]>, "Kumar, Muneendra" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:01:47 -0400

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AFREF Mail               13 Jun 09:17:05 PDT 2001      Message Number 7
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Author: Muftah Unis

	Dear Sir:

	It seems that somewhere the "dates" for the Rome Meeting dropped
off.

	Could you please let me know the date	

	Best regards,

	Muneendra Kumar.
	NIMA

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Muftah Unis [SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Sent:	Monday, June 11, 2001 10:12 AM
> To:	[email-masked]
> Cc:	Anwar SIALA; ali swassi; [email-masked]; Abdelmajid
> CHAARI; [email-masked]; Mohamed OULD BRAHIM; Ludwig Combrinck; Khier
> Bouchibi; Fezzani Chedly; Fethi Benhamouda
> Subject:	[AFREF-6] Rome meetting and Cooperation
> 
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> AFREF Mail               12 Jun 16:17:33 PDT 2001      Message Number 6
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> Author: Muftah Unis
> 
> Dear Professor,
> I thank you very much for your message and your kind invitation to  Rome > meeting for deepening all the sights of the installing of permanent GPS > stations in Northern Africa and for  discussing   the features of the > setting of a unified geodetic reference frame in this region.
> Reading your proposed agenda for the meeting, AOCRS is ready for > co-operation with IAG and to take its full role in this project as it > has already done in the past (e.g. the ADOS project during the 1980's).
> For several decades, the African continent has been a white patch in  > every project conducted by the international geodetic community,  you > surely know better than anyone else the urgent need of a full geodetic > program in areas such as ours.
> 
> With this respect the aims that you assign in your letter to the > proposed plan of the Italian Space Agency with the scientific support of > the IAG are indeed very attractive and deserve some more comments from > us.
> 
> 1 -The improvement and the strengthening of the ITRF, while tieing our > continent to the activities and benefits of the international geodetic > community go indeed in the staight line of an urgent priority for our > countries to set a North African  Geodetic Reference Frame, that is > NAFREF, bearing in mind that this is the first stake for the very > important project AFREF at the  continental level.
> 
>  2 - National geodetic and mapping agencies have naturally the  key and > the main  role to play within this frame. One should bare in mind also  > all the bringing of interstate institutions such as  AOCRS, and CRTEAN  > in order to  promote, coordinate, interrelate, make easier, develop, > strengthen, smooth and damp the activities and relations between the > countries of the region them selves  and in Africa, in conformity with > there definition, vocation and  role. 
> 
>  For all these reasons, I am again glad to renew all my pleasure for > your initiative to gather in Rome participants from concerned countries > and institutions to discuss the preliminaries for such a wide project, > state of the arts and needs, the locations of the new permanent stations > and zero-order points, the equipment and the manpower available, the > planning and the schedule  of the various steps of the project. AOCRS is >  determined to help towards the good success of these activities .
> 
>  Last but not least, the AOCRS and the IAG can develop and maintain > fruitful relations and cooperation especially if we keep in mind that > the IAG has a long tradition since its creation in promoting  geodetic > activities oriented  world wide and towards the developing countries.
> 
> I would like to point out heer that AOCRS was selected with South  > Africa to co-chair the Africa sub-commission of IAG Commission XIV > "Crustal Deformation"  we hope that IAG can find in AOCRS a good > regional and continental counterpart from this side of the Mediterranee.
> 
>    With my best regards
> 
>  Muftah Unis,
> 
>  Secretary General