On 23 May, 2016, Disabled Peoples’ International Asia-Pacific (DPI AP) Regional Assembly finished the first day, after accepting a series of reports from executives and the election.
Following the election procedure approved in the previous Regional Council meeting in 2012, election was conducted in a democratic way with full transparency. Regional Councilors nominated candidates for each position and discussed openly before voting. Finally all the Executives were elected by consensus. Among 7 positions, only 2 were re-elected.
List of new DPI AP Executives
- Regional Chairperson
- Mr. Shoji Nakanishi (Japan), re-elected
- Regional Vice-Chairperson representing Northeast Asia Subregion
- Mr. Dae Song Kim (Korea), re-elected
- Regional Vice-Chairperson representing Southeast Asia Subregion
- Ms. Josephine de Vera (the Philippines)
- Regional Vice-Chairperson representing South Asia Subregion
- Mr. Mohd Abdus Sattar Dulal (Bangladesh)
- Regional Vice-Chairperson representing Oceania Subregion
- Ms. Kesaia Domonatani Vilsoni (Fiji)
- Secretary
- Mr. Muhammad Shafiq Ur Rehman (Pakistan)
- Treasurer
- Mr. Dae Song Kim (Korea)
For inquiries, Mr. Keiichiro Tamaru, Secretariat in charge of international affairs, DPI-Japan: office_en@dpi-japan.org