Greece is starting up

Dr. Giacomo Spartaco BERTOLETTI, 1st Vice President of IBSSA was invited in Athlima for the works of the Pankration - Athlima, Olympic sport from 648 B.C. to 698 A.D. and recognized in 1999 by the Hellenic Olympic Committee, where he met Dr. Paul HÖGLUND, Chairman of Quality Control Department of IBSSA, who was leaving for Osaka (Japan) and Singapore to have some contacts also with Mr. Stephen CHEE, Country Representative of IBSSA for Singapore and Member of Quality Control Department.

The will of setting in motion the IBSSA was born from the meeting, after that for long time Mr. Nick A. THEOPHILOPOULOS has been an unproductive representative.
As a matter of fact some measures will be studied for

• Presenting officially the IBSSA in public, private and professional channels of security, with press conference with the presence of the Executive President, Prof. George POPPER and the General Secretary – Dr. Rony KLUGER.
• Demonstration from live of the concept of "IBSSA professional courses" with the international team that can give a precise interpretation of the high technical level achieved by IBSSA in the training and qualification of public and private cadres.
• From this first launch Mr. Nick A. THEOPHILOPOULOS will start a series of contacts in order to introduce us to the Olympic Games of 2004, also with IBSSA elements in the Olympic security cadres.

A fact is that from the general ultra-conservatism, nowadays important doors in the modern Hellas. In the same time the Iranian delegation of the Pankration Athlima Federation is very interested in examining "de visu" the courses organized in

• Budapest (25th-29th September) and in
• Italy (in Milan, 4-5-6 October-2nd and 3rd level; in Potenza, 11-12-13
  October-1st and 2nd level)

Prof. Giacomo Spartaco BERTOLETTI, KCM,
1st Vice President of IBSSA