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III. Forthcoming IFU events
� 2012 IFU event
The “10 th International symposium on Vaccinium and other Superfruits” is a
joint ISHS-IFU event which will take place at “MECC Maastricht” June 17-22,
2012 Maastricht, Province of Limburg, The Netherlands. The Symposium will
cover a 4-day program: 1 day of site visits to allow participants to experience
and enjoy the local harvesting and productions scenes and 3 days of scientific
and business presentations, discussions in the field of horticulture, health
aspects, business and technology and trade exposition.
The IFU annual Assembly of Delegates and Commissions meetings will take
place 19-20 June 2012 at Maastricht University in conjunction with the “10 th
International Symposium on Vaccinium and other Superfruits”.
� 2013 IFU event
At the Executive Committee meeting held on 19 th October 2011 in Parma, the
decision was taken to organize the 2013 IFU annual meetings combined with
an IFU Workshop in June 2013 in Russia at the kind invitation of the Russian
Union of Juice Producers (RSPS).
The following possible venues were suggested by Natalia IVANOVA,
President of the Russian Union of Juice Producers at the meeting with the
Secretary-General of IFU on 29 th February 2012 in St Petersburg, Russia:
� Sochi, a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated just north of Russia’s
border with Abkhazia on the Black Sea coast near the Caucasus
Mountains. Sochi will host the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI
Paralympic Winter Games in 2014.
� Kazan, the capital and largest city of Tatarstan. It lies at the confluence
of the Volga and Kazanka rivers in European Russia, 720 kilometers
East of Moscow.
� Nizhniy Novgorod is situated in the centre of East European valley
where Oka river joins with Volga. It is 400 km far away from Moscow.
The final decision regarding venue and timing of the 2013 IFU event will be
taken during the IFU internal meetings to be held 19-20 June 2012 in
Maastricht and communicated in the July issue of IFU News (Issue 29).
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