General Interest

On 6 June 1946, toward the conclusion of the first PICAO Interim Assembly, Montréal, Canada was selected as the permanent headquarters of the Organization, by 27 votes. The other candidate cities at the time obtained respectively:…

At the Chicago Conference, the drafters of the Convention on International Civil Aviation had anticipated the emergence of a United Nations type of post-war organization. Accordingly, they wrote into the Convention a provision…

This year's celebrations are particularly special, since we are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation. As of this writing, numerous ICAO Member States have committed resources toward…

The  ICAO Council has appointed Mr Nabil Naoumi to a one-year renewable term as President of the ICAO Air Navigation Commission (ANC), the UN civil aviation Organization’s main technical review body. Mr Naoumi was nominated for the…

Though every year on 7 December World Civil Aviation Day is observed around the world, this year has even more significance. It has been 75 years since the signing of the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation which created ICAO…

The 36-member governing body of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the ICAO Council, has elected Mr. Salvatore Sciacchitano of Italy as its President for a three-year term, beginning 1 January 2020. He succeeds Dr.…