Group of Experts on Aviation Safety, Security and Assistance (GEASA)

Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N8

To all members and participants

We have the honour to write to you as co-Chairmen of the Group of Experts on Aviation Safety, Security and Assistance (GEASA) to invite you to participate in the Sixth GEASA meeting.

This three-day meeting will be held from November 29th to December 1st 2006 at the Naval Museum situated right outside the Hotel Charleston Cartagena (Claustro de Santa Teresa), located in Cartagena, Colombia.  Information on this hotel can be found on the Internet at http://www.hotelescharleston.com/cartagena.
You may contact the Hotel by telephone at +57 (5) 6 64 94 94 or by fax at +57 (5) 6 64 94 48.   The Colombian Civil Aviation Authority will be providing English /Spanish interpretation services.

It is our hope that GEASA will benefit from your continued participation as it moves forward with its goal of contributing to the enhancement of civil aviation safety and security; modern’s times of change and challenge needs new solutions to improve and sustain air transportation under the best frame of safety and security.   Once again, we invite you to extend the invitation to industry members within your own Civil Aviation Authority.

We continue to believe that GEASA offers a fresh format that could be used to facilitate the development and funding of many civil aviation projects throughout the hemisphere.  It is our hope that at this next meeting we will have the opportunity to facilitate projects that impact your country directly.   It would be important that details of such projects be forwarded to us in advance or brought to the meeting.  Project Funding Request forms are available on the WHTI-GEASA web site at http://www.whti-geasa.org/ . 

Please confirm your attendance by November 15th, 2006 to Ms. Poppy Vineberg, Senior Advisor - International Aviation, by telephone at +1 (613) 991-4745, by fax at +1 (613) 998-4860 or vinebep@tc.gc.ca.  Please direct your agenda items and suggestions to her before November 10th.  Casual attire is suggested – no suits, no ties.

We look forward to seeing you in Colombia and having the opportunity to further develop this very important initiative with you.