Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear friends and colleagues,

I this solemn moment I would like to express my great delight and thanks for election for this responsible function. I hope, I'll fulfill the expectation of our environment and my activity will be rewarding for all AETF members.

The assumption of this office in European Taekwon-Do is an honor and a source of personal satisfaction and contemporary guarantee of democratic operating continuation.

I will take every effort to live up to this exceptional token of trust.

Taekwon-do is our common passion. There is respect for different opinions and views. We can take different roads to ensure that the asset of our organization will be developed.

I will ensure that organizational, instructive, promotion and didactic asset is developed and multiplied.

In the last years there was great deal achieved. Our organization and her democratic structure was widely strengthened. These achievements should make us proud, satisfied and happy. However, from the perspective of this same period I must admit that a number of problems have not been solved.

I count on all members to take an active and cooperative role.

I count on cooperation in reaching our common goals. Let me present the draft of conception for AETF evolution in next years.

Organizational aims:

• to register of AETF as European Taekwon-Do Association and AETF constitution in court and to obtain the lawful protection,

• to organize organization structure, legal-organizational and structural matters,

• to rebuild unity of AETF,

• to lead large communicatory politics about AETF activity and her achievements,

• to reform the communication between member countries,

• to actuate AETF website,

• to collect archives of documentation.

Teaching aims:

• to continue regularly Continental Senior and Junior Championship,

• intensify technical courses and seminars regard differentiating for advance level,

• competitions on high organizational and sport level should have cup system "Grand Prix".

Didactic aims:

• to start publications of trainings Taekwon-do

• to initiate scientific research concerning Taekwon-do

Promotion aims:

• to undertake the action to contributing the promotion of Taekwon-Do in media,

• to undertake the action to get support from sponsors,

• to produce a Taekwon-Do manufactures,

• to put efforts to make Taekwon-Do competition more attractive for publicity through visualization of the results for spectators and increase the organizational and technical level.

Tadeusz Łoboda