Meeting with the delegation of "WAAF" from Russia26th October 2002, Wien / Austria

The meeting between IBSSA and WAAF took place in Wien / Austria on the 26th October 2002 and was coordinated and hosted by Dr. Michail M. VLADIMIR (RUS) - Counsellor to the Russian Embassy in Austria, Director of the Russian Cultural Institute in Wien.

Present

• Prof. George POPPER, GCKM (HUN) Executive President of IBSSA
• Dr. Alex HEVESI (AUT) Chairman of the Executive Committee of IBSSA Country Representative of IBSSA for Austria
• Dr. Levente GYENES, KCM (HUN) 1st Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of IBSSA International Coordinator of IBSSA for Europe
• Dr. Michail M. VLADIMIR (RUS) Counsellor to the Russian Embassy in Austria Director of the Russian Cultural Institute in Wien
• Ph.D. Oleg E. PAVLOV (RUS) Adviser to the Chairman of the Board of World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum (WAAF)
• Mr. Veniamin V. KASHIRSKIKH (RUS) President of Business World and Security Alliance - Business Development Security Center
• Mr. Igor B. KARAGEDOV (RUS) General Director of "Excalibur-95" Security PVT, Ltd.

At the beginning of the meeting Prof. George POPPER, GCKM (HUN) - Executive President of IBSSA congratulated to the present high-ranking Russian generals for the successful solution of the hostage-taking terror attack. After introducing everybody Ph.D. Oleg E. PAVLOV (RUS) - Adviser to the Chairman of the Board of World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum gave brief information about WAAF and Mr. Veniamin V. KASHIRSKIKH (RUS) introduced the Business World and Security Alliance - Business Development Security Center.

The purpose of the World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum (WAAF) is to create an international grouping of anticrime and antiterrorist forces. Under the auspices of the WAAF, people in power, law enforcers, scientists and scholars, businesspeople, financiers and journalists will join their effort and professional possibilities for combating the expanding criminality. The Forum's ultimate goal is to build a premise for national and international crime-combating strategies and to work out a practical program for counteracting transnational crime. After 3 and a half years of preparatory work the registration of WAAF took place on 14th February 2002 in Berlin, Germany. Also, the Board was elected and is comprised of

• Anatoly S. KULIKOV - Chairman of the Board of the WAAF (Chairman of the Subcommittee on Combating Terrorism and Transnational Crime of the Committee on Security of the State Duma of the Russian Federation)
• Rupert SCHOLZ - Deputy Chairman of the Board (Chairman of the Committee on Legal Issues, Bundestag, GER)
• Thomas A. KELLEY - Deputy Chairman of the Board (Vice President of Global Options LLC, USA)
• Andrejs VILKS - Member of the Board (Dr. of Law, Director of the Criminological Research Center of the Ministry of Justice of Latvia, and Chairman of the Committee on Security, Riga Municipal Council, Latvia)
• Patrick BRUNOT - Member of the Board (Dr. of Law, Attorney-at-Law, Paris Court of Appeal, and President of France-Russia 2000 Society, France)
• Kirill A. TROPOV - Deputy Director General for International Relations, National Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Foundation of Russia, was appointed Executive Secretary of WAAF

Prof. George POPPER, GCKM (HUN) - Executive President of IBSSA also gave thorough information about the activities and structure of the Association to the present officials.

Regarding to the obvious fact, that collaboration is possible and needed in numerous fields of security, the parties agreed and adopted mutually this kind of collaboration, which will be stated in a Cooperation contract in the near future, when the Board of Directors of both associations will adopt it unanimously. General Veniamin V. KASHIRSKIKH expressed his intentions that also the Business World and Security Alliance would like to start close cooperation with IBSSA, to create business partnership with the IBSSA Corporate members and also to join the Association.

Both parties expressed their special thanks to Dr. Michail M. VLADIMIR for the kind hospitality, who was also requested to coordinate all future meetings between IBSSA and WAAF in order to deepen and strengthen of relations.

Prof. George POPPER, GCKM (HUN) - Executive President of IBSSA invited all present officials to participate at the 2nd IBSSA World Martial Arts Championships and Festival, which will be held between 14 - 19 November in Riga / Latvia.

30th October 2002, Budapest
IBSSA HQ