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Minutes of the 7th ECOSAI Governing Board Meeting (June 25, 2002), Ankara. 1- The seventh Meeting of the Governing Board of ECOSAI was convened at Ankara on the 25 of June 2002. The venue was the new building of the TCA. Mr. Mehmet Damar, The President Turkish Court of Accounts welcomed the heads of the SAIs and delegates from the member SAIs to the convention. The delegations of the ECOSAI consisted of the following: Seyed Kazem
Mirvalad, President of ECOSAI and Supreme Audit Court of Iran 2- Mr. Soner Vehbi, President of the Court of Audit of the Muslim Turkish community in Cyprus (TRNC) attended the meeting as an observer. 3- In his welcome address the President of the TCA wished the participants a successful convention. After this the President of ECOSAI, Mr. Seyed Kazem Mirvalad addressed the meeting. He expressed his thanks to Mr. Mehmet Damar for the excellent arrangement. He also thanked the Secretary General Mr. Manzur Hussain for the Secretariat's efforts to develop the organization. He delved into the training plans of the ECOSAI and mentioned the need for participation of all the members of ECOSAI through bilateral meetings. He wished for recognition by INTOSAI of ECOSAI and desired that effort be made in this regard. 4- Meeting then moved to consider the agenda suggested by the host and adopted the same. 5- Secretary
General ECOSAI, Mr. Manzur Hussain presented his report to the BoG.
He observed that the ECOSAI was a result of aspirations of member countries
of the region to develop ties of cooperation in State Auditing. It was
he felt, gradually maturing into a viable organization. He recounted
the desire of the 6th BoG meeting for strengthening the ECOSAI. In carrying
out some of the planned activities by the Secretariat, the Secretary
General reported on the Conduct of the first ECOSAI Training Seminar
at Lahore during March 2002. Financial assistance by the Islamic Development
Bank in holding the seminar was acknowledged. The training seminar was
a success in terms of the feedback received from the participants as
well as evaluators. He appreciated the cooperation of the member states
in making the training advent a success. He informed that only half
of the Islamic Development Bank grant had been expended on the first
seminar and the balance had been refunded to the Bank. However he proposed
to request the Bank for approving the refunded balance to hold the next
course so that member states that could not avail of the first one could
benefit. 7- Next the financial statements and accounts \...ere presented by the Pakistani delegation along with the budget for three years. There were no observations hence these were adopted. 8- Next item of discussion was regarding contributions from members of ECOSAI. There were some arrears due from most members and it was decided that they may bring these contributions up-to-date. Secretary General raised two issues at this point 1) Preparation of accounts and election of an audit committee, 2) Association of non-active members. The Secretariat had received a formal request from Afghanistan to be included in the ECOSAI. Article 12.1 of the Charter allows membership through the Assembly. President of TCA wished acceptance of Afghanistan in the ECOSAI and also supported appointment of an audit committee. Mr. Fakhraddin Ismayilov of Azerbaijan conveyed the respect of the Chairman of his Chamber of Auditors of Azerbaijan to ECOSAI and thanked the President of TCA for help and support. Mr. Jafar Hasanov of Azerbaijan then took the floor. He informed that his organization would now be representing Azerbaijan in the ECOSAI. Mr. Taalaibek Nurmanbetov took the floor on the subject of the Kyrghyzstan's efforts to establish new contacts with non-active members. He suggested names of countries that could be contacted by the members. He reported of his contacts, especially Uzbekistan. Regarding participation of Afghanistan, he welcomed it. Stressing the ECOSAI's not being a political organization but a professional one, Mr. Soner Vehbi of TRNC expressed his wish to become a full member. Mr. Abdullahi of the Iranian delegation then spoke. He discussed the possibility of Afghanistan's participation in the ECOSAI and welcomed it. He requested an annual report of ECOSAI for the ECO Council of Ministers. He proposed to place the issue of participation to the ECO Council of Ministers in line with article no 7, Para 7.2, sub Para e of the ECOSAI Charter. The Secretary General thanked and appreciated the efforts of SAI Kyrghyzstan to contact non-active members. Regarding the full membership of TRNC the matter was to be reconsidered by the assembly. He discussed the role of the secretariat in obtaining participation from non-active members. He spoke of the technical problems in tagging ECOSAI with the ECO Secretariat. Mr. Damar of TCA felt that ECOSAI should not be under ECO. ECOSAI should be independent. After discussions, reconsideration of the matter to motivate other countries through Council of Ministers of ECO was postponed. 9- Next the Secretary General gave suggestions for action plan for the current year. In terms of the 6th BoG Meeting, the Secretariat suggested the following action plan of the ECOSAI during the year 2002:- a) Holding
a second course on Performance Audit by SAI Pakistan especially for
those ECOSAI member countries who were unable to attend for some reasons
during March 2002. Auditors from all member states would however, be
welcome. This would be subject to availability of funds from the Islamic
Development Bank Jeddah and who will be approached for the purpose.
Ms Gulsun Canova of TCA gave details of the training plan. In May 2003 course on budget procedures will be hosted by TCA with IDB assistance. Similarly, SAI Iran will hold a course on performance management auditing funded by IDB during October 2002. The Secretary General requested for the proposals so that IDB could be informed. He proposed meeting of the training committee in Islamabad. This was endorsed by the President. Action plan was approved. 10- For agenda item no 10 President SAI Iran briefed on holding 3rd International Seminar and 4th Congress of ECOSAI in May 2003 at Tehran. He stressed attendance of all members and presentation of country papers. The selected topics are: •
Good governance and, Secretary General requested for the country papers at an early date (six months prior to the Seminar). Pakistan would write on good governance. 11- After discussions of the high cost of construction of a web site by the Secretariat, the SAI Turkey offered to host an ECOSAI home page under TCA web page; Feasibility will be reported. Mr. Nurmanbetov stressed the need for a web site irrespective of cost. 12- Discussing other matters, the BoG approved an interim Auditing Committee consisting of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan to audit accounts of the ECOSAI. President SAI Iran informed of holding the 8th BoG in Tehran with the connection of the Assembly in 2003. 13- With the above, the meeting was brought to close with expression of gratitude from the President to all participants and the host. 14- We, the undersigned have read the minutes of 7th BoG and find them to our agreement. Mr. Seyedf
Kazem Mirvalad Mr. Manzur
Hussain, Mr. Fakhraddin
Ismayilov, Taalaibek
Nurmanbetov, Mr. Mehmet
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