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Today is the last day of the 6^th World Congress of Basque Communities Abroad being held since last Wednesday at the Montehermoso-Oihaneder Palace in Vitoria-Gasteiz.  Yesterday, elections were held for three new Basque club representatives on the Advisory Council.  The council may meet in December to discuss topics that were raised during the Congress. 

Vitoria-Gasteiz.   At every World Congress of Basque Communities, there are elections for Basque club representatives for the Lehendakari’s Advisory Council, and this one was no different.  This year’s newly elected representatives are: Arantxa Anitua (president of Laurak Bat in Buenos Aires), Aitor Arruti (member of Barcelona’s Euskal Etxea) and Lorea Palacios (member of the Mexico City Euskal Etxea), along with Enrique Poittevin, President of FIVU, the Federation of Basque Institutions in Uruguay as alternate.

Here is the program for the last day of the Congress:

Friday, October 9

09:00 Assessment of the 2012-2015 four-year plan

09:30 Creation and approval of the proposed four-year plan for 2016-2019

12:00 End of the Congress

13:15 Reception at the Lehendakaritza for official delegations

14:00 Closing remarks by William A. Douglass, Professor Emeritus of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno

14:20 Closing of the Congress by the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu