General Assembly

General Assemblies are held every two years, alternately at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, and during the International Geological Congress.

A focal point of these meetings is to assess the aims of future programmes and the progress of current cartographic projects.

General Assembly 2018

The CGMW General Assembly was held on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 February 2018 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France.

Representatives of our Statutory Members, the Geological surveys of the countries and territories of the World, wereinvited to participate, together with the scientists and researchers of the academic and private institutions that collaborate in the mapping programs of the Commission. Here is the list of participants.

The .pdf version of the programme of the sessions and conferences is downloadable here.

The Resolutions approved by the General Assembly on Friday 23 February are available in its original English version and its translation into French. Download here.

Participants around the Geological Globe of the World in the entrance lobby of UNESCO Headquarters at the end of the Assembly, Friday 23 February.
(Picture by courtesy of Mr. Jorge Gomez Tapias, Colombia)

Opening of CGMW General Asssembly at UNESCO room XI. In the platform, from left to right, Professor Qiuming Cheng, IUGS President, Manuel Pubellier (CNRS-ENS), CGMW President, Teresa Ponce de Leao from Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia of Portugal and Eurogeosurveys President, Philippe Rossi, CGMW past-President, and Pierre Nehlig (BRGM-France), Secretary General of CGMW. (Photo courtesy of Kristine Asch, BGR-Germany)

Exhibition of CGMW maps in the hall of room XI at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. (Photo courtesy of Kristine Asch, BGR-Germany)

From left to right,  Jorge Gomez Tapias (Colombian Geological Survey), CGMW Vice-President for South America, Nohora Montes Ramirez (Colombian Geological Survey), Lêda Fraga (Geological Survey of Brasil-CPRM), CGMW Secretary General for South America, Carlos Schobbenhaus (CPRM), past-CGMW Vice President for South America and Kristine Asch (BGR-Germany), CGMW Vice-President for Europe. (Photo courtesy of Kristine Asch, BGR-Germany)

From left to right, Shinji Takarada (Geological Survey of Japan-AIST), President of CGMW Subcommission for Geological Hazards Maps, Bruno Vrielynck, CGMW Deputy Secretary General, Kristine Asch, Ender Sarifakioglu (Geological Survey of Turkey-MTA), Oleg Petrov (VSEGEI Director/St. Petersburg), CGMW Vice-President for Eurasia, and Igor Pospelov (Russian Academy of Sciences), Secretary General of CGMW Subcommission for Tectonic Maps. (Photo courtesy of Kristine Asch, BGR-Germany)

Panoramic view of room Salle XI l during the presentation of Marc St-Onge (Geological Survey of Canada), CGMW Vice-President for North and Central America. In the foreground, right, Peter Miles, President of CGMW Subcommission for Seafloor Maps and Advisor of CGMW Bureau. (Photo courtesy of Kristine Asch, BGR-Germany)