Updates on drafting AIT New Charter
On 14 February 2007, Prof. Said Irandoust, AIT President, met with Dr. Tej Bunnag, Chairman of the Board, and H.E. Mr. Laurent Aublin, Chairman of the Executive Committee, accompanied by Mr. Thierry Schwarz, his Regional Counsellor for Cooperation, to further discuss the course of action to be taken with regard to the latest version of the draft AIT Charter received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Thailand.
MOFA Thailand plans to bilaterally arrange meetings, initially with the foreign ministers of Indonesia and Vietnam, the two countries where AIT has established centers, requesting them to become the Institute's signatories to the new charter so that the desired intergovernmental organization status could be acquired in the shortest time. Before such action can be conducted by MOFA Thailand, the endorsement by the AIT Executive Committee and approval of the AIT Board of Trustees need to be sought on the draft AIT Charter.
To have the final draft of AIT Charter approved as soon as possible, it was subsequently agreed to prepone the meeting of the 28 March 2007 meeting of the Executive Committee to either 2 or 6 March 2007 and meeting of the 28 May 2007 Board of Trustees Meeting to 28 March 2007.
AIT would be able to attain full international organization status as soon as it has obtained intergovernmental organization status and the Geneva II act is promulgated.