And to progress the best is to don’t forget some interesting points already defined in the previous emails.

One factual point is to have locally a mature and stable organization that can manage Visas and related problems with visas.

So, instead of speaking about dictatorships, the best is to stress this point.

Kind regards

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From: Asaf Bartov
Sent: 03 July 2017 04:43
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

DaB.: Wikimania has already been held in a military dictatorship (Egypt, 2008), without particular problems.

But I suggest that this thread is not helped by personal opinions of countries. I applaud Mykola for introducing actual data into the discussion.

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 6:48 PM cs <cs@edubkk.org> wrote:

Do you have any idea what you are talking about? I’ve lived here for nearly 20 years along with a million other Western expats. Or would you prefer SA with its extremely high crime rate and a history of bigotry that still lingers to this day. Now that’s a place I won’t be gong to.

Kudpung
> On 3Jul, 2017, at 04:19, DaB. <wp@dabpunkt.eu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Am 02.07.2017 um 13:37 schrieb cs:
>> a country like Thailand where I live
>
> you mean a country which is currently a military dictatorship (for the
> second time in 10 years)? A country that was THIS close to a open civil
> war? And if not a civil war, maybe a real war with Cambodia?
>
> Visa problems are problematic, but it is 10 times better than to give
> the Wikimania to an instable country – we are not the FIFA.
>
> Sincerely,
> DaB.
>
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