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 RE: ITKF urgent general meeting

Dear Eyal:

Approved Constitutional amendments is updating the Constitution.  So the Constitution has been updated in the last ten year and all amendments were circulated to all National Federation members and Constitutionally approved.  What the ITKF did not do was consolidate them in a written form, i.e., a “Constitutional Booklet”  That is a completely different matter than “not updating the Constitution” – which in your statements made throughout your world-wide emails, you infer there was no Constitution of ITKF.

I spoke to Mr. Machado immediately following the conversation that you had with him and wasn’t given the impression that he was “updating” the Constitution.  He confirmed his task to be to confirm and cross-reference the Constitution and amendments in order to provide to the members with absolute certainty, the existence of a viable and fully enforceable Constitution.  This was important to confirm through someone other than the ITKF Chairman in order to refute claims to the contrary and false information and unsubstantiated accusations that have been circulated.  He has completed that cross-reference and verification, confirming all facts that have been stated by the ITKF Chairman.

Thus, the individuals attacking the ITKF can no longer use the lack of a ITKF Constitution to justify attendance at a meeting that has been called in the name of the ITKF without any authority of the organization with the sole purpose to destroy the legitimate ITKF organization.  The ITKF has always had a viable and enforceable Constitution and it will enforce its Constitutional authority with those who would attempt to destroy the organization.

“Strong supporters” of ITKF follow the Constitution.  The ITKF Constitution is democratic in its nature.  The current problems are created by those who do not like the fact that the majority does not agree with them.  That suggests very strongly that they do not like democracy.

Sincerely,

R. Jorgensen, Chairman

International Traditional Karate Federation