Dear Affiliated Members

I would like to congratulate all the Federations that were present in Odessa – Ukraine.

We had 54 Federations and more than 600 competitors, a good report for a World Championship.

Mr. Valeriy Kusiy made tremendous efforts for the organization of this event, congratulations for him and his team; all of us could realize the difficulties of organizing such a big event,

the World Championships, but all the participants were very happy.

The Reception of the presidents, referees and officials, before the championship was magnificent, food and drinks, dancing and warm hospitality, Mr.Valeriy demonstrated us that he was decided to impress all with a wonderful organization.

Unfortunately there were some technical difficulties that we couldn’t pass and it was impossible to use the New WUKF sytem of Competition; it will be used in Constanta - Romania during the European Championships for Children, Cadets and Juniors in September 2009.

The best of our events was the friendship between the competitors, the officials, the Executive Committee members and all of the participants. Even if there were some referee errors we can say for sure that we had a correct judgment and “the best had win”.

The increasing of the referee level could be made in time and if all the federations will bring at least 2 referees at WUKF events. The training of the referees is an important point on WUKF agenda and in Constanta 40 referees will be invited free of any cost for participating at the Special Seminar.

Like all our events there were difficulties for some countries to get VISA to Ukraine, some countries from Asia and Africa were not able to join the championship.

The special guests Master Teruo Chinen (Goju Ryu), Master Kando Shibamori (Wado Ryu)

and the World Champion Christophe Pinna were present all the days of the championship and presented nice demonstrations in the opening ceremony. They evaluated the organization of the event and suggest some very good possible changes that could increase the level of organization.

Mr. Spartaco Bertoletti Director from Samurai Magazine was our special guest too, his presence always bring shine to any Karate event. His presence was not only into the journalistic area but using his experience to help the Executive Committee to improve the organization for the next events.

During the WUKF Congress in Hotel Odessa, the Administrative Report and the Financial Report were presented to all members. The Elections for Executive Committee, programmed for this Congress were organized as the new WUKF statute imposes with secret vote for all the positions.

Mr. Osvaldo Messias de Oliveira was reelected in secret vote by unanimous of the votes of the participants at the Congress for a new mandate 2009 – 2013.

We started WUKO in 2005 with only 5 members and now WUKF has 164 Federations in all of the world, it is the result of our efforts during this 4 years.

The President Osvaldo Messias de Oliveira presented the Document of the Trade Mark Office where the Name and Logo WUKF is registered in the name of the organization and not in the name of a private person.

Mr. Liviu Crisan was elected as 1st Vice President and General Secretary, Mr. Henrique Silva as 2nd Vice President; together we will do our best for growing WUKF.