APDF Ex Co Meeting
13:30-16:30, June 14, 2004
at UNCC, Bangkok, Thailand
Draft Minutes
Attendants
Ms. Judy Wee, Chairperson of APDF
Mr. Shoji Nakanishi, Vice Chairperson of APDF
Mr. JB Munro, Vice Chairperson of APDF
Mr. Frank Hall Bentick, Treasurer
Mr. Ryosuke Matsui, Secretary General
Mr. Monthian Buntan, Chair of Working Committee on the Convention
Mr. Topong Kulkhanchit, Co-chair of Working Committee on Research andDevelopment
Mr. Joseph Kwok, Chair of Working Committee on Information
Ms. Supattraporn Tanatikan, Chair of Working Committee on Gender Issue
Mr. Godfrey Ooi, Chair of Working Committee on Fund Raising and Sponsorship
Observers
Mr. A.H.M. Norman Khan, Center on Development and Disability, Bangladesh
Mr. Nazhul Bari, Center on Development and Disability, Bangladesh
Mr. Khandakee Jahaml Alam, NFOWD, Bangladesh
Mr. Ngy San, Disability Action Council, Cambodia
Mr. Robert Lin, Eden Social Welfare Foundation, Chinese Taipei
Ms. Emma Lee, Eden Social Welfare Foundation, Chinese Taipei
Mr. Kim Yong Chol, KASD, DPR Korea
Mr. Kim MunChol, KASD, DPR Korea
Mr. Jo To Jin, KASD, KASD, DPR Korea
Mr. Ri Pang Chun, KASD, DPR Korea
Mr. Kang Yun Dok KASD, DPR Korea
Ms. Gunilla Hogling, SHIA, Sweden
Ms. Betul Yalcin, Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, Turkey
Ms. Lasapan Toomsawasdi, APCD, Thailand
Ms. Jirat Wachirasereechai, APCD, Thailand

1Mr. Akiie Ninomiya, APCD, Thailand
Ms. Naoko Ito, APCD, Thailand
Ms. Anne Holopainen, ILO, Thailand
Ms. Kay Nagata, UNESCAP
Ms. Penny Price, Rehabilitation International
Ms. Etsuko Ueno, Secretariat of APDF

Draft Minutes
Ms. Judy Wee, Chair, welcomed the participants to the meeting.
1 Adoption of the minutes
The minutes of the previous online meeting held on Feb. 29, 2004 was approved.
2 Membership
Preliminary members’ status will be confirmed upon their payment of membership feesby the end of Sept. 2004.

Secretariat is to send reminder letters to all the potential

members to pay membership fees in time.
It was confirmed that any interested local disability NGO could become a member ofAPDF, and that one national member organization should not necessarily represent all
the local disability organizations in a country.
It was agreed that a constitutional issue involved in individual membership orassociate membership is to be discussed at next Ex Co meeting.
3 Financial report for Nov. 2003/May 2004
The financial status report for Nov. 2003/May 2004 was approved.
4 Report on the developments of Working Committees
4-1 Information Committee
It was agreed that Information Committee is to ask Rehabilitation Alliance Hong Kongto make research to find low cost solutions to support web-based meetings.
4-2 Gender Issues Committee
It was suggested that the Committee is to expand the network activities to the Pacificarea in partnership with ESCAP, and to promote TWGDC and APDF partnership tosensitize mainstream women’s organizations and women rights advocate organizations
as well as Gender Section of ESCAP.
4-3 Research & Development Committee
It is suggested that the Committee is to encourage and articulate proposals relating to2

the BMF, and to follow up BMF implementation, and to further pursue thecollaboration with APCD, and that it is to make research on existing publishedresearches/bibliography by the BMF priority areas in collaboration with Information
Committee so as to make its findings available on the web.
4-4 Convention Committee
The latest developments on the UN Disability Convention was reported.
4-5 Fund Raising and Sponsorship Committee
Some ideas on fund raising were discussed at the meeting.
5 ESCAP’s Proposal on a Joint Workshop with APDF
It was unanimously approved to organize ESCAP/APDF Regional Workshop on the UN
Disability Convention, 11-12 Oct. 2004 to follow up the 3rd and 4th Sessions of Ad HocCommittee in conjunction with ESCAP’s Monitoring Workshop on the BMF, 13-15 Oct.
2004.
6 Next APDF Conference
It was decided to organized next APDF conference in Melbourne, Australia in late Nov.
2005.
7 Others
A session on collaboration with APCD, organized in the morning of 14 June, wasreported.
It was decided to organize next Ex Co meeting in Bangkok on 10 Oct. 2004 inconjunction with the ESCAP/APDF joint workshop on the UN Disability Convention,
11-12 Oct.
Representative of Eden Social Welfare Foundation expressed their gratitude for theparticipation in the meeting as observers.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.

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