Iran Post CEO Hossein Nemati attended the Universal Postal Union Second Extraordinary Congress to vote on the proposed reforms to the structure of the organization.
Held from September 3 to 7 in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, the gathering brought together representatives from 192 member countries, reported the ICT Ministry’s official website.
On the sidelines of the event, the post company CEO attending met Bishar Hussein, director general of the UPU, Ethiopia’s Minister of Communication and Information Technology Ouba Mohammad Hussein and Turkish officials to explore enhanced collaborations.
The meeting covered a wide range of topics including restructuring the UPU, reform of the system applied to contributions by UPU member countries and brought to the fore discussions of an integrated product plan, as well as an integrated remuneration plan for the delivery of goods through the international postal network.
Every four years representatives from the Universal Postal Union’s 192 member countries come together at the Universal Postal Congress to revise the UPU’s rules and form policies for the next four-year work cycle.
Second Extraordinary Congress
According to the website Post and Parcel, an Extraordinary Congress may be requested between regular congresses with the support of at least two-thirds of the UPU’s member countries. The first time this occurred was in 1900 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the UPU in Berne, Switzerland,
During the 26th Universal Postal Congress in Istanbul in 2016, member countries decided to meet for a second Extraordinary Congress.
It was called to make decisions on issues that member countries determined needed further study, but which were too important to the development of the postal sector and the sustainability of the UPU to delay until the next Universal Postal Congress in 2020.
With a global network of over 600,000 post offices, 5.3 million staff and physical infrastructure covering 192 countries, the postal sector is a key contributor to national and international infrastructure and plays an important role in every nation’s development.
The Universal Postal Union headquartered in the Swiss Capital Berne was established in 1874 and is the third oldest international organization after the Rhine Commission and the International Telecommunication Union.
