Meeting Mini-Bulletin Venue The Second Meeting of the Ad Hoc Afghanistan Contingency Group (AHACG/2) meeting will take place in WoW Hotel Istanbul (http://www.wowhotelsistanbul.com/), which is very close to Ataturk Airport. An all-inclusive special rate for single room of only EUR 120 EURO is being offered to meeting participants who are able to change, which is recommended. For bookings, please contact: Mr. Erinc Tekin, TEL +90 212 468 30 30, MOB +90 530 343 67 59, [email protected]. For those participants who have a non-refundable hotel rate and are unable to change accommodation from near the previous venue, we will try and arrange some form of transportation to the new venue. A map of the venue location is below. Any enquiries on the stay in Istanbul of an administrative or support matter not directly related to hotel booking should be directed to Mr. Sven Halle, Regional Officer ATM at the Paris Office ([email protected]). Meeting The Meeting Registration will take place from 08:30 until 09:00, and the AHACG/2 will commence promptly at 09:00 thereafter. For those of you that did not attend the first meeting, please read the report of the First Meeting of the Ad Hoc Afghanistan Contingency Group at http://www.icao.int/APAC/Meetings/2014%20AHACG1/FINAL%20REPORT%20with%20att%20A%2 0and%20B.pdf. Please read the report and be prepared to participate in a key meeting that needs to progress or planning to the point where we agree on a trans-regional contingency scheme which is going to involve many nations. In particular, participants from Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey should ensure that they bring with them information on the following:  Sector capacity (this is especially important for Pakistan and Iran as the traffic flow may change quite a bit from its current disposition);  ATS surveillance coverage;  ATS Letters of Agreement (these are likely to need review to take into account an contingency operations – and the meeting will want to especially ensure that procedural separations within surveillance coverage at the transfer of control point are no longer used); and  information on communications capability/problems (both ATS unit to ATS unit – voice, data and flight plan, and air-ground – VHF, HF, CPDLC and SATVOICE). As in the AHACG/1 Meeting, there will be no Chairperson for AHACG/2. The ad hoc meeting will be primarily moderated by Mr. Len Wicks, Regional Officer ATM at the APAC Office, with the assistance of the Regional Officers ATM from the MID Office (Mr. Elie Khoury) and EUR/NAT Office (Mr. Sven Halle). The meeting’s duration will depend on what papers we receive, the intensity of discussion, and the deliverables achieved. It is anticipated that it will take a full two days from 09:00 until 16:00 on Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th November to complete discussions – and there may be a number of side meetings to resolve issues between States. A meeting report would be compiled and presented on Wednesday 19 th November, which will deliver the results of the AHACG/2 to the Asia/Pacific DGCA Conference only a few days later on 28 November in Hong Kong, China. Papers All meeting papers will be posted to the meeting website at http://www.icao.int/APAC/Meetings/Pages/2014-AHACG2.aspx. Please ensure that that any papers are sent to Mr. Len Wicks ([email protected]) by Friday 7 November if at all possible, otherwise we may have to treat the information as a Flimsy. Registrations We are anticipating about 40 – 45 people to attend. Please send any registrations to Mr. Len Wicks ([email protected]) by Friday 7 November. The registration form is available on the AHACG/2 Meeting web site.