Last Wednesday, 5 January 2022, at the UPU Headquarters in Bern, the new Director General, Mr Masahiko Metoki, and the new Deputy Director General, Mr Marjan Osvald, formally entered office.
At a press conference to mark the #event, Director General Metoki noted that the #UPU may be one of the oldest international organisations, but it is not an old-fashioned institution. Whereas it was once the delivery of letters and related communications that guaranteed #globalinteraction, the #challenges now faced by the 192 Member Countries of the UPU lie in managing and exploiting enhanced #digitalization, #ecommerce, and ICT to achieve this #goal.

Deputy Director General Osvald added, that facilitating “contact with the #customers” remains at the core of the postal service provision. The #development of the Posts themselves remains in the hands of their owners, the UPU Member Countries.

The new #topmanagement of the UPU reaffirmed the commitment to successfully implement the Abidjan strategy and roadmap until 2025, and the UPU’s #vision of the #postalsector as a #sustainable engine for closing gaps, building partnerships, and promoting #widercollaboration.

The priorities for the new top management were laid out at 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗨𝗣𝗨 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗯𝗶𝗱𝗷𝗮𝗻this summer: 
– Strengthening the Union and its restricted unions, 
– Working to reform the Union’s administration and postal operations, 
– Opening the Union to wider stakeholders, and 
– Preparing an extraordinary UPU Congress in 2023, dedicated to the opening of the Union. 

Deputy Director General Osvald emphasised that #businessethics, accountability and #transparency would all be #keyperformanceindicators during his term. Director General Metoki added that, in light of the Sustainable Development Goals for the UPU by 2030, the major achievements would be effective partnership and efficient collaboration with #UN organisations and all partners.