Subject: Contact of CEB and PBA.
Following our last communication about the meeting with M. Mr Heijinn Lee, CEO of PBA, we received written proposals on the 25th of June, by e-mail, which was forwarded to Federations and UMB on the 26th of June. Despite the World Cup and the Coupe d'Europe in Porto, we have dealt intensively with this email and had an information exchange with the UMB too.
From our point of view, they are few concrete proposals, but rather general discussion bases for further talks. Most of the roughly outlined solutions cannot be solved at the level of a continental federation. Agreements on lifting suspensions, transcontinental media contracts, adjustments in the international calendar cannot be concluded by a continental federation.
As already explained, any agreement can only be at the global level, with the agreement of UMB and all the Confederations.
For this reason, the direct contacts between CEB and Mr Lee are now closed.
We have asked the UMB to a hand-over to continue further discussions with the PBA, also on behalf of and in consultation with the Continental federations. UMB reacted immediately positive! For UMB the door is always open for constructive discussion for a better future of billiards although the PBA is not a sports federation. Nevertheless, talks with this for-profit, private company, without any recognition in the international sports community (IOC, WADA, ...), can lead to good solutions. We would like to see such results, but taking in account the needs of the Federations, which are the basis of international billiards.
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