| sivadnai@gmail.com 2005-08-09, 8:31 pm |
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Sam Sloan wrote:
quote:
> On 9 Aug 2005 02:35:47 -0700, sivadnai@gmail.com wrote:
>
> No. They will not be allowed to join.
>
> FIDE is already upset at these little parts of the British Empire
> joining FIDE and placing an ever increasing burden on organizers.
> Examples are the Inland of Jersey, Island of Guernsey and the British
> Virgin Islands.
>
> Suggestions have been made that Gibralter and the Island of Sark
> should be allowed to join FIDE.
>
> If Northern Island wants to join FIDE they can of course petition, but
> I can guarantee that it will not be allowed, and certainly not without
> a fight..
>
At the AGM it was suggested that the precedent of others joining
ensured Northern Ireland being able to join. In the past other World
Bodies have been forced to accept such applications. Are you really
certain about this?
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