The Emirates Sports Arbitration Authority addresses the Sports Authority to freeze the Athletics Federation

The Emirates Center for Sports Arbitration sent an urgent letter to the General Sports Authority, requesting that the Board of Directors of the Emirates Athletics Federation be suspended from practicing any activity related to the Federation’s affairs locally and internationally, until the complaints received by the Center are decided on the invalidity of the Federation’s Ordinary and Extraordinary General Assembly meetings.

The center received two complaints, the first included a request to invalidate the regular meeting of the General Assembly of the Athletics Federation held on 4/4/2021, while the second included a request to invalidate the extraordinary general assembly of the UAE Athletics Federation held on 7/4/2021, after questioning what was included in both The two complaints are of legal aspects and grounds, and according to the authority of the Emirates Center for Sports Arbitration, and the procedural rules that regulate its work, and in accordance with the requirements of the public interest, the General Sports Authority has been informed of the precautionary and temporary measures necessary until the dispute is settled and decided by the President of the Primary Chamber of the Emirates Center for Sports Arbitration before which the dispute is examined. .

The measures that the Emirates Center for Sports Arbitration sent to the General Sports Authority included freezing the work of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Athletics Federation from practicing any activity related to the Federation’s affairs locally and internationally.

The procedures also included the commitment of the General Sports Authority to inform each of the chairman and members of the board of directors of the suspended federation, the head and members of the temporary committee not to make any media statements visible, read or audible, in addition to all social media at the local or international levels, until the case is finalized and the case is provided. The Center shall undertake all the measures taken in this regard, within 3 working days from its date.

The measures taken by the Emirates Center for Sports Arbitration also stipulated that the temporary committee that was selected from the majority of the members of the General Assembly of the Emirates Athletics Federation in their extraordinary meeting on 7/4/2021 would be empowered by the Federation Affairs Department and composed of Mohammed bin Humaidan Al Zaabi as Chairman, and the membership of each of Nasser Mohammed bin Ashour, Majid Sultan bin Sulaiman, Suhail Salem Al Kaabi, and his group Obaid Ali Al Shamsi, provided that the General Sports Authority hand over the committee all the administrative and financial aspects of the Emirates Athletics Federation and coordinate with the National Olympic Committee in technical affairs, within 5 days He worked as of its date through a committee headed by a representative of the General Sports Authority, and it includes a financial member from the General Sports Authority, a representative from the National Olympic Committee, and a representative from the Emirates Center for Sports Arbitration

The procedures also included a request to the General Sports Authority to prepare an administrative and financial report on all the activities of the Emirates Athletics Federation for the two sports seasons 2018-2019 / 2019-2020, provided that the center is provided with it within 10 days of its date, in addition to transferring all the final accounts of the Emirates Athletics Federation. Forces for the years 2019 and 2020 to the Audit Bureau, and to provide the center with all legal procedures in this regard.

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