CIBJO Congress 2016 set to kick off in Armenia on October 26, agendas and related documentation now online
MILAN, ITALY: OCTOBER 12, 2016 – With the 2016 CIBJO Congress set to open in Yerevan, Armenia, in eight days’ time, agendas and related documentation for the various sessions and meetings that will take place during the event are now available online. Contained in a Digital Binder, they can be downloaded from the dedicated congress website. To download the Digital Binder, please CLICK HERE.
The schedule of the CIBJO Congress includes a series of meetings of different working groups, called sectors and commissions, each of which focuses on a different sector or field of interest in the jewellery industry. The Digital Binder includes the agendas and documentation related to each of their sessions, as well as those sessions that encompass the entire CIBJO membership.
The congress will take place at the MERIDIAN Expo Center in Yerevan, from October 26 to October 28, with pre-congress meetings starting on October 24.
Serving as the official venue for the meeting of the CIBJO Assembly of Delegates, the CIBJO Congress gathers the members of national jewellery and gemstone associations from more than 40 countries and representatives of many of the industry’s most important commercial bodies. During the event, the organisation’s Diamond, Coloured Stones, Pearl, Coral, Precious Metals and Gemmological Blue Books, which are industry’s most widely accepted directories of uniform grading standards and nomenclature, are discussed and updated.
This is the first time that a CIBJO Congress is taking place in a Central Asian country. It is being hosted by the Armenian Jewellers Association (AJA).
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The 2016 CIBJO Congress will take place in Yerevan, Armenia, October 26-28, with pre-congress meetings on October 24 and October 25. The congress will be hosted by the Armenian Jewellers Association (AJA).
The official venue for the CIBJO Congress 2016 is the Meridian Expo Centre, which is the largest conference and exhibition facility in Armenia.
The congress hotel is the five-star Armenia Marriott Hotel Yerevan.
More information is available and registration possible on the dedicated CIBJO Congress website at: http://www.cibjo.org/congress2016/.
CIBJO is the international jewellery confederation of national trade organisations. CIBJO’s purpose is to encourage harmonisation, promote international cooperation in the jewellery industry and to consider issues which concern the trade worldwide. CIBJO’s chief mission is to protect consumer confidence in the industry. Click here to go to the CIBJO website for more information.