News Mails - 2008
Newsletter -No.044, 18/July/ 2008
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The First Announcement of 15th Session of Asia-Pacific Regional Space
Agency Forum (APRSAF-15), Hanoi and Ha long Bay, Vietnam, Dec 10-12, 2008
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The first announcement of APRSAF-15 has been distributed. The forum will be held in Hanoi and Ha long Bay, Vietnam, and jointly be organized and co-sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
While the APRSAF is designed to serve as an active forum to promote concrete cooperative activities to address common issues at the regional level, the APRSAF-15 will be held under the main theme of “Space for Sustainable Development” with the aim to contribute toward solving problems not only of the Asia-Pacific region but also of the entire world as well as to exploit space technology development and utilization for sustainable development of countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
The first Announcement of APRSAF-15 has been posted on the APRSAF website.
APRSAF-15 Website:
http://www.aprsaf.org/annual_meetings/aprsaf15/meeting_details.php
The 1st Announcement of the APRSAF-15:
http://www.aprsaf.org/data/aprsaf15_data/1stAnn_9July08_WEB.pdf
Welcome Messages from General Co-chairs are also posted on the APRSAF Website.
Prof. Nguyen Khoa Son, Vice President of VAST:
http://www.aprsaf.org/data/aprsaf15_data/Message_from_NKSon.pdf
Dr Hiroki Matsuo, Chairman of the Space Activities Commission, MEXT:
http://www.aprsaf.org/data/aprsaf15_data/Message_from_H.Matsuo.pdf
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