Minutes of 44th Executive Coucil
Meeting
Iris Room, Daewoo Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam
1800- 2030, 22nd October, 2003
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Agenda
Minutes
1 Opening Remarks
2 Apologies
3 Approval of 43rd EXCO Meeting
4 Matters Arising from 43rd EXCO Meeting
5 Confirmation of New EXCO members
6 Message from President
7 Message from Past President
8 Report by Past Secretary General
9 Report by Secretary General
10 Report by Treasurer
11 Report by Chairman of Publications
12 Report by Coordinator of Projects
13 Report on
12GA & Matters Arising from 12 GA
14 11ACC & 13 GA
15 The Bidding host of 12 ACC & 14 GA
16 FACS Operations Manual
17 Future EXCO Meetings
18 Other Business
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Present
Prof.Ho sy Thoang (Vietnam)President
Prof.Jung hun Suh (Korea)President-Elect
Prof.Barry Noller (Australia)Past-President
Prof.Huynh Van Trung (Vietnam) Secretary-General
Dr. San Thang(Australia) Coordinator of Publication
Prof. Masato Ito (Japan) Coordinator of Projects
Datuk Dr. Ting-Kueh Soon (Malaysia) Treasurer
Prof.Xiao-Xia Li (China) Director of ChIN
Dr.Yoshimasa Takahashi (Japan) Co-director of ChIN
Dr.Pieter Scheelings (Australia) Director of APFAN
Dr.Neil Galbraith (Australia) Observer
Dr..David Winkler (Australia) Project Director Medicinal Chemistry
Prof.Masaaki Tabata (Japan) Co-director of ANAIC
Prof.Kazuko Masumoto (Japan) Observer
Prof. Ho Chee Cheong (President IKM Malaysia) Observer
Prof. J N.O.Fernando (Srilanka) Director of ACEN
Prof.S.K.Talapatra(President,Indian Chemical Society) Observer
Prof.M.Mosihuzzaman (President, Bangladesh Chemical Society) Director, Sub-Project ANRAP
Dr Zuriati Zakaria (Malaysia) Co-Director ACEN
Professor WinchenHong Chan (HongKong)
Dr Ross Sadler (Australia) Co-ordinator ANEC
Dr. Franz Wimmer(Brunei) Observer
Prof. Chu Pham Ngoc Son (Vice President,Chemical Society of Vietnam)
Prof.Kyung Byung Yoon Korea) Secretary-General 11ACC
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Agenda
1 Opening Remarks
2 Apologies
3 Approval of 43rd EXCO Meeting
4 Matters Arising from 43rd EXCO Meeting
5 Confirmation of New EXCO members
6 Message from President
7 Message from Past President
8 Report by Past Secretary General
9 Report by Secretary General
10 Report by Treasurer
11 Report by Chairman of Publications
12 Report by Coordinator of Projects
13 Report on 12GA;Matters Arising from 12 GA
14 11ACC & 13 GA
15 The Bidding host of 12 ACC & 14 GA
16 FACS Operations Manual
17 Future EXCO Meetings
18 Other Business
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Minutes
1. Opening Remarks
Prof. B. Noller accomplished his mission as FACS President and thanked the retiring EXCO members for their service : Secretary-General Dr.San Thang and Coordinator of Publication Prof. T.J.Chow
Prof.Noller declared the 44th EXCO Meeting officially opened at 1800 on October 22nd ,2003 at the IRIS Room of Daewoo Hotel ,Hanoi ,Vietnam.
Prof. Thoang, the incoming President of FACS made his speech by extending his warm wishes to delegates attending the Meeting and then asked Prof. B.Noller to chair the first part of Agenda.
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2. Apologies
Dr.Johnsee Lee retiring Past-President and Prof.Chow retiring Publications Chairman could not attend this Meeting caused by their work commitments.
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3. Approval of 43rd EXCO Meeting (Attachment 1)
The minutes of 43rd EXCO Meeting held at Melbourne Business School on May 24th ,2003 was approved as presented.
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4. Matters Arising from 43rd EXCO Meeting
Item 7. A statement on SARS Virus was placed on the FACS web page. The decision was made to proceed with the holding of 12GA/10ACC. This information was relayed to member societies by the Secretary General.
Item 8. The KCS prepared the 1st Circular of 11AC and made this available at 10ACC in Hanoi.
Item 10. The Treasurer advised that the Russian Chemical Society had been downgraded to Observer status.
Item 13. The Secretary-General advised the 2003 awardees of their arrangements for attendances at 10ACC.
Item 14. FACS would continue to try to make contact with N Korea, Cambodia and Laos, using the assistance of the UNESCO Jakarta Office.
Item 15. The accepted changes to the FACS statutes and Award rules will be incorporated in the FACS Operations manual.
Item 16. A proposal to create an FACS Foundation is being created.
Item 17. Future EXCO meetings now set in place are 44th EXCO Colombo April 2004 and 45th EXCO Bangkok October 2004.
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5. Confirmation of New EXCO members
Based upon the decision made by 12th General Assembly on October 20,2003
Prof. Ho Sy Thoang recorded the following as New FACS Executive Committee members :
Prof. Ho Sy Thoang President
Prof. Barry Noller Past-President
Prof. Jung hun Suk President¨CElect
Prof.Huynh Van Trung Secretary-General
Datuk Dr. Ting ¨CKueh Soon Treasuer
Prof. Masato Ito Coordinaror of Projects
Dr. San H. Thang Coordinator of Publication
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6. Message from President
Prof. Ho Sy Thoang expressed his happiness with new position of President. He said that it is a high privilege and the first time Vietnam organised so big international meeting. The position of FACS President is too high while we have not so much experiences. He hopes that all EXCO ¨Cmembers and representatives of the Asian Chemical Societies including also the Chemical Society of Vietnam will help us in conducting our activities.
He believed to receive the collaboration from Past President ,Past Secretary-General, Past-past President Johnsee Lee ,Prof. Hitoshi Ohtaki Prof. Thoang also introduced the presence of new President-Elect , Prof Jung hun Suk from Korea and Prof. Chu Pham Ngoc Son, Vice President of CSV.
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7. Message from Past President
The retiring President Professor Noller thanked Professor Ho Si Thoang and the CSV committee for their hard work in organizing 10ACC and the 12th GA of the FACS.
Professor Noller gave his untiring support to the incoming EXCO and reinforced his long-term link with the CSV.
Professor Noller gave an undertaking to advance the FACS Operations Manual to include the changes adopted at the 12th GA and to begin development of an FACS Foundation.
Professor Noller undertook to compile a history of the FACS to cover the period 1991-present in time for the 25th Anniversary of the FACS in October 2004.
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8. Report by Past Secretary-General
The retiring Secretary-General Dr San Thang reported that the minutes for the 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd and 43rd EXCO had been prepared and circulated together with the minutes from the 11th GA at Brisbane. The lists of members societies had been updated and were current. Request were forwarded to member societies for nominations to the FACS awards 2003. The nominations for awards were collated and distributed to the FACS awards sub-committee of FACS. The selected awardees were endorsed by the EXCO and subsequently advised to make arrangements to attend 10ACC in Hanoi. Statements for each awardees plaque were produced and embedded.
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9. Report by Secretary general
Prof. Huynh Van Trung expressed his desire to effectively run the new position. He said that with the high position will be concerned together with hard works and many difficulties .But he believed that with strong support from all EXCO-members and other members ,especially from Past President, Past Secretary-General and with his trying, the difficulties will be overcame and the mission will be accomplished.
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10. Report by Treasurer
Dr.Soon reported on his hard job he succeeded from former treasurer, and then he gave some details of the expenses during 2003 for all projects with the attachted report on financy. He also mentioned about the protection of the budget of FACS and would find out the way to get the better solution for manage the treasure. He promissed to try to arrange the best budget for the supporting the FACS activities.
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11. Report by Chairman of Publication
Dr. San Thang expressed the highly appreciation to Prof. Chow, who is the past chairman of publication due to his really good job to keep the high quality of FACS Newsletter. During the period of Prof. Chow as the publication chaiman, the finacial problem has been overcome for FACS from the sources of offices, Australia,ect...He promised to try to get more support with his publication session in order to keep the good quality of FACS Journal.
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12. Report by Coordinator of Projects
Prof. Masato Ito presented the Summary of Projects Seed Fund Status for 2002-2003 and Recommendation of Projects for cycle 2004-2005 at the 12GA and repeated at this EXCO Meeting as following :
Asian Network for Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry (ANAIC)
Funding in 2002: To support key persons attending 10-ACC
Funding in 2003: Carried over for the activities in 2004
Asian Chemical Information Network (ChIN)
Fund in 2002-2003: Supporting the participant in the Symposium on Mach 2002 and to key persons attending10ACC
Asian Network for Environmental Chemistry (ANEC)
Fund in 2002: Supporting a scientist attending the Workshop on diarrhetic shellfish poisons funded by the Commonwealth Science Council to support the key persons attending 10ACC
Fund in 2003: nothing requested
Asian Network for Green Chemistry (ANGC)
Fund in 2002-2003
To support the participants in Symposium of 10-ACC
Asian Pacific Network for Food Analysis (APFAN)
Fund in 2002: to assist with APFAN commitments with 10-ACC
Fund in 2003: For APFAN Workshop
Asian Chemical Education Network (ACEN)
Fund in 2002-2003: Supporting the participants in Symposium of March 2002 (carried over from 2001),
in the Regional Seminar on 22 June, 2002(Colombo, Sri Lanka) and to support participants in 10-ACC Symposium
Sub Project: Low Cost Instrumentation/Microscale Chemistry(LCI/MC)
Fund in 2002: Regional Workshop in December 2002
Fund in 2003: Nothing requested
Sub Project: Low Cost Publication (LCP)
Activities in 2003: Distribution of copies of low Cost Publication to suitable participants attending Workshop in Sweden and Denmark
Fund in 2002-2003: For activities in 2002-2003
Medical Chemistry (MC)
Fund in 2002-2003: To support the participants in Symposium of 10-ACC
Sub Project: Asian Network for Research on Anti-diabetic Plants (ANRAP)
Fund in 2002: for Regional Seminar on 17 October 2003
Fund in 2003: Carried over for international Seminar in January 2004
For Cycle 2004-2005, Prof.Masato Ito submitted the following Projects
at this Meeting and requested to be adopted:
1. Asian Chemical Information Network (ChIN)(Continue)
Director: Xiaoxia Li (China)
Co-Directio: Yoshimasa Takahashi (Japan)
2. Medical Chemistry and Natural Products (MCNP) (Continue with name change).
Director: Prof. David Winkler (Australia)
Co-Director: Prof. Le thi Anh Dao (Vietnam)(not finalised)
3. Asian Chemical Education Network ACEN) (Continue)
Director: Prof.JN.Oleap Fernando (Srilanka)
Co-Director: Dr Zuriati Zakaria (Malaysia)
Supporting staffs: Prof. Nguen duc Chuy (Vietnam) and Dr.Yoichi Yamada(Japan)
4. Asian Analytical Chemistry Network (AACN)(Renewal of ANAIC)
Director: Prof. Masaaki Tabata (Japan)
Co-Director: Prof. Hasuck Kim (Korea)
5. Sub-Project Low Cost Instrumentation /Microscale Chemistry (LCI-MSC) (continue with nickname change)
Director: Prof. Winghong Chan ( Hong Kong)
6. Sub-Projects Low Cost Publication (LCP) (Continue)
Director: Prof. Krishna Sane (India)
7. Sub Project Professional Ethics in support of Chemical Disarmament (New proposal)
Director: Prof.John Webb (Austalia)
8. Asian Network for Environmental Chemistry(ANEC) (Continue)
Director: Dr. Ross Sadler (Australia)
Co-Director: Dr.Jae Oh (Korea) (not finalized)
9. Asian Pacific Food Analysis Network (APFAN) (Continue)
Director: Dr Pieter Scheelings (Australia)
Co-Director: Dr. Julia Kantasubrata(Indonesia)
10. Sub Project Asian Network for Research on anti-diabetic Plants(ANRAP)(Continue)
Director: Prof.M.Mosihuzzaman (Bangladesh)
11. Green Chemistry (GC) (Restructured)
Director and co-Director: to be nominated
12. Sub Project Bioinorganic Chemistry (New Proposal)
Director: Prof. Sue Berners ¨CPrice Australia)
Discussion and conclusion
There was a suggestion that all current projects needed approval by the EXCO. There was also some discussion regarding names and Directors and Co-Directors of Projects. Finally EXCO adopted ten projects and sub projects numbered from 1 to 10 with condition Prof. Mosihuzzaman will submited early. The other ones will be considered and adopted late at next EXCO Meeting.
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Report on 12 GA & Matters Arising from 12 GA (See Attachment 2)
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14. 11-ACC &13 GA
The 11-ACC and 13GA will be held at Seoul, Korea from 22to 24 August 2005.
The first Circular has been issued and distributed during 10-ACC &Eurasia 8 at Hanoi, Vietnam .The Web Site of 11-ACC:
http://www.11ACC.org/
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15. The Bidding host of 12-ACC & 14 GA
Hosting 12-ACC of 2007 is open for discussion. The Chemical Societies of China, Bangladesh and Malaysia expressed their enthusiasm for hosting 12ACC. The bidding was carried out by closed ballot at 12 GA. Malaysia (IKM) was winner with 7 votes under 14.
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16. FACS Operation Manual
Professor Noller gave an undertaking to update the Operations manual and circulate it.
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17. Future EXCO Meeting
45th EXCO Meeting will be held at Colombo, Sri Lanka on 28 April 2004
46th EXCO Meeting will be held at Bangkok ,Thailand on August ,2004
47th EXCO Meeting suggested to be held at Shanghai, China
48th EXCO Meeting will be held at Seoul
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18. Other Business
The FACS Award Lecture at 10-ACC of Prof. Thomas H Spurling was very useful for developing countries, so that The Meeting requested to print full paper of lecture in next FACS Newsletter.
A special vote of thanks was proposed to the retiring Past-President Dr Johnsee Lee , retiring Coordinator of Publications Professor TJ Chow and retiring Director of ANAIC Professor John Webb.
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