Secretary general Gunilla Lindberg tells Around the Rings the Association of National Olympic Committees is “on track” to deliver an overhaul of its constitution as part of a wave of changes.

“I think we are fulfilling most of the promises made in Moscow,” the Swede said of the process kick-started at last year’s general assembly in the Russian capital.

Lindberg was in Kuwait over the weekend for meetings with ANOC president Sheikh Ahmad al Fahad al Sabah to talk through developments and finalize the agenda for the Council meeting in Sydney on March 5. It’s being held there to mark the inauguration of the Australian Olympic Committee’s new offices.

“He is very pleased. We are moving forward,” Lindberg said.

At the Moscow meeting where Sheikh Ahmad was elected, he vowed to lead a more transparent ANOC based on open communication and collaboration with its constituents.

Part of his “vision to reorganize, a vision to have a new constitution” appears to be bearing fruit.

Lindberg said proposals for the new-look constitution, which had remained untouched throughout Mario Vanzquez Rana’s 30 years at the helm of ANOC, were designed to “modernize and improve” the umbrella organization of the world’s National Olympic Committees.

ANOC members are being asked to provide their feedback over the coming six weeks.

The ANOC Council will rubberstamp the constitutional revamp at the Sydney meeting. An extraordinary general meeting of ANOC will meet June 15 in Lausanne to approve.

In fresh developments under Ahmad’s shake-up of ANOC operations, Lindberg revealed that new headquarters will open in Lausanne in March 2014.

She said an old church building behind the Lausanne Palace Hotel was undergoing renovations to become ANOC office space.

“We are going to be more active,” Lindberg told ATR.

“It’s important that all NOCs gather once a year,” she said of the plan to hold more annual general assemblies.

Source: Aroundtherings