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No.16, November 2007
Responsible
Editor: Mrs Renate
HUSSEINI, member of the Board and Coordinator.
 Editorial
Dear member of
SGBGJ,
Summer has gone by as well
as Ramadan and Eid al Fitr and November is already starting, everybody
looking forward to the break at the end of the year. But in the
meantime SGBG has several interesting events in store for you, the
details of which you will find in the section 'Future Events' below.
Here I am happy
to take the opportunity to wish a hearty welcome to the new
German Consul General, Dr. Michael Zickerick. He is coming from
Teheran, where he served as a high ranking member of the German Embassy.
I would equally
like to inform you that our chairman, Sheikh Khaled
Juffali, has been awarded the German 'Bundesverdienstkreuz' (German
decoration)
handed over to him by the German Ambassador, Dr. Krieghoff, during a
recent ceremony. Sincere congratulations to our chairman!
Future Events
Piano Concert in Sierra, 26th of November
2007, 8.00 p.m.
Pianist : Andreas Henkel
This concert is organised by the German
Consulate General and SGBG. Free entry for SGBG members and their
spouses. Tickets 100 SR.- for the general public.
Members: Please confirm your attendance by email to sgbgjrh@gmail.com. We need the
exact names of each person because we have to give a name list to the
Sierra Security people.
ANDREAS
HENKEL, born in
1967 in Germany, started piano playing with 8 years in his home town
Freiberg (Saxonia). Prizewinner at the National Youth Competition 1983
in Zwickau, birth city of Robert Schumann. Piano and piano pedagogy
study between 1984-1989 at Hochschule für Musik Dresden, diploma
with remark "very good". Major formative influences from the russian
pianist Arkadi Zenzipér in Dresden and Aquiles Delle Vigne in
Brussels.
CONCERTS
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Now based in Dresden, he performed solo recitals in many European
cities and was invited for Solo recitals in the USA in Chicago,
Columbus/Ohio, for the Chopin Society of Texas, in Japan in Tokyo and
Kobe.
• As soloist he appeared with orchestras in Germany,
Romania, Italy (Orchestra Città di Ravenna), Spain (Orquesta
Sinfonica de Galicia), Belgium (with the BASSO-Bilkent Symphony
Orchestra-Turkey at the Musici Artis Festival Brussels), Moldova
(Crescendo Festival Orchestra), Lebanon (Lebanese National Symphony
Orchestra Beirut), in the USA with the Columbus Youth Symphony
Orchestra and Westerville Symphony, Ohio.
• First concert invitation to South America in 2000 for
recitals to Buenos Aires and Montevideo celebrating J. S. Bach's
anniversary. Since 2003 annual tours with concerts in Brasil,
Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay as well as orchestra performances.
Social Gathering in the Garden of the Residence, 5th of December 2007,
8.00 p.m.
Let's get together
informally, enjoy some nice fresh air, have a chat and a bite and get
to know new people. Feel free to bring a guest, who might enjoy the
friendly and uncomplicated atmosphere of SGBG events.
Classical music
concert : Flute and piano, location not yet fixed, 15th of December
2007, 8.00 p.m.
Artists: Rudolf Döbler (flute) accompanied by Hiroaki Nakane
(piano)
Many of us will remember the beautiful concert
last year given by these artists in Sheikh Khaled's house. We are very
pleased to have them coming again and would like to thank our former
Consul General, Dr. Hubert Lang, actually German ambassador in Bahrain,
for having invited them again to the Arabian Peninsula. We hope that
most of you will still be in Jeddah and consider this concert as a
brillant closing of a very eventful year.
Highlights
of the Past
Iftar
in the al-Yasmine Restaurant of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 23.09.2007
SGBG offered to
its members a somptuous
Iftar in this very nicely decorated restaurant. Obviously quite a few
of our members were still out of the country or busy with their
families as it was the National Day, but there has still been a nice
crowd enjoying the food and the company and we had the opportunity to
meet Dr. Zickerick for the first time.
Members'
Corner:
Business News
Event
Description
The Saudi Water & Power Forum 2007 has the full support
of the Ministry of Water and Electricity of Saudi Arabia, Saline Water
Conversion Corporation, Saudi Electricity Company, Water and
Electricity Company, Electricity & Cogeneration Regulatory
Authority, SAGIA, International Desalination Association and Saudi
Council of Engineers.
German
Language Center
DEUTSCHE
SPRACHKURSE GERMAN LANGUAGE COURSES
Sprechen
Sie Deutsch?
Enrolment and information :
Please contact the office at the German International School in
Jeddah.
Phone : 02 691 35 84
E-mail : office@German-School-Jeddah.org
Office
hours: Saturday to
Wednesday from 8.00 a.m. to 1.00
p.m
A new course
session has actually started on 28th of October but please phone the
German School to be informed on the following session.
Miscellaneous: Found on
the Internet
PERSGA : Regional Organization for the Conservation
of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden;
Headquarters in Jeddah
http://www.persga.org
PERSGA's Mission: To perform
the functions necessary for the implementation of the Jeddah
Convention on a sustained and cost effective basis, aiming at rational
use of living and non-living marine
and coastal resources in a manner ensuring optimum benefit for the
present generation while maintaining the potential of that environment
to satisfy the needs and aspirations of future generations.
PERSGA
Objective 2006-2010: To improve the sustainable management
and use of the RSGA’s coastal and marine resources. Sustainable
management and use will be reflected in reduced threats to the
environment, improved livelihoods of participating coastal communities
and improved institutional, legal and financial arrangements.
The Organization:
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PERSGA,
the Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of
the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, is an intergovernmental body dedicated to
the conservation of the coastal and marine environments found in the
Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf of Suez, Suez Canal, and Gulf of Aden
surrounding the Socotra Archipelago and nearby waters. PERSGA’s member
states include: Djibouti, Egypt,
Jordan, the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
PERSGA’s legal basis stems from Article XVI of the Regional Convention
for the Conservation of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, known as the
Jeddah Convention[1], signed
in 1982: “A Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Red Sea
and Gulf of Aden Environment, the permanent headquarters of which shall
be located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is hereby established". It was not
until September 1995, however, with the signing of the Cairo Declaration[2] during the First Council Meeting in
Egypt, that PERSGA’s creation was formally announced. Falling under the
umbrella of the Arab League, PERSGA has since become recognized as one
of the leading marine conservation organizations operating in the Red
Sea region.
The development of PERSGA’s Strategic Action Plan in 1997 provides
the operational mandates governing PERSGA’s conservation activities and
programmes. Taking a step-by-step approach, the SAP was prepared on the
premise that it would be implemented in phases, each with its own set
of particular priorities and areas of focus. The first Phase of the SAP
was implemented during 1999-2005 with the support of GEF. As of 2006,
PERSGA has been conducting its work under SAP Phase
2, which concentrates primarily on sustainable development and
institutional strengthening.
PERSGA's activities focus on the following fields :
Education, Research & Monitoring, Public Awareness, Oceanography,
Habitats & Biodiversity, Living Marine Resources, Marine Protected
Areas, Persistence Organic Pollutants, Sustainable Development......
Assessment of the
Website :
These
fields are represented as specific sections of PERSA's apparently
recent Website. The Website has a pleasant lay-out and a comprehensive
structure, but suffers unfortunately from a lot of spelling mistakes,
especially in the very interesting photo library.
Moreover
there seems to be a lay-out problem, because in many sections a small
window-link covers part of the text, making reading very difficult.
In the photo section the general reader
will be puzzled sometimes about an apparently incoherent mixture of
photos of - let's say fishes - and some important people during a
meeting; under the heading "Living Marine Resources" for
instance, I found a photo of the roofs of a Jordanian city, for me this
has nothing to do with Marine Resources.......
On
the Website you will find the entire text of the so called "Jeddah
Convention", which is the basic framework for PERSGA.
The
heading "RSGA Region" displays descriptions and some typical images of
the seven member countries of PERSGA.
A "Documentation Centre" completes the Website usefully.
All
in all, the website proves to be very interesting but needs some
technical improvements.
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