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ICAO is committed to working with Member States to establish standards, specifications and best practices in all machine readable travel document (MRTD) related areas. Through our Traveller Identification Programme (TRIP) Strategy, ICAO…
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Rapid growth and continuing challenges to future system capacity were some of the key points addressed in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia last week, as ICAO’s Council President and Secretary General participated in the 54th Asia-Pacific Directors…
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Dramatic events in the past two years (Bruxelles, Istanbul, Paris, Nice, Copenhagen, Orlando, Ankara, Thalys, etc.) have shown us that even if the security threat in aviation  remains, it is shifting landside, to public areas. These public…
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The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are working together to help States achieve sustainable improvements in the field of travel facilitation and security of travel…
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With a variety of drones and unmanned aircraft set to revolutionize how lower-level domestic airspace is used for professional or recreational drone flights, consumer deliveries, and many other uses still yet to be imagined, DRONE ENABLE,…
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Physicist Niels Bohr once said, ‘prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future’. Despite the difficulties, we can safely assume advances in technology will reshape the future training programmes of aviation…
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ICAO Council President Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu bestows a Council President Certificate on the government of Bolivia, drawing attention to the State’s significant safety oversight progress during 2016. The special ICAO honorarium was…
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This morning we live streamed a Sky Talks about the Technical Cooperation Bureau. Daniel Souhami, Field Operations Officer for the TCB, discussed how the TCB is focused on empowering you as stakeholders to better adapt to the changing civil…
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Throughout an intensive series of addresses and bilateral meetings undertaken in Cuba last week, ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu encouraged Cuba’s leadership to continue pursuing and leading on pragmatic and proactive approaches to…
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At a recent bilateral meeting, the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, H. E. Yemi Osinbajo, and the President of the ICAO Council, Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, concurred on the need to heighten preparation and investment in…
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