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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Dear colleagues</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I<span style="font-size:12.8px">t gives us great pleasure to welcome the newest OAD regional office - the European Regional Office of Astronomy for Development - into our global Astronomy-for-Development family. This will be the 10th office that we coordinate globally and the first one in the so-called "developed world". </span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The IAU yesterday released a press release announcing this significant event:</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau1801/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px">https://www.iau.org/news/<wbr>pressreleases/detail/iau1801/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div dir="auto">You can also see many more photos from the official photographer at the following link: </div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/08n58n0joqm9s30/AACME2eFnuX_oqB8wHW3porOa?dl=0" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/08n<wbr>58n0joqm9s30/AACME2eFnuX_oqB8w<wbr>HW3porOa?dl=0</a>  </div><div dir="auto">(Credit: Leiden University, the Netherlands/P. Rusch)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Kevin, Vanessa and the OAD team</div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">

<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Kevin Govender<br>IAU Office of Astronomy for Development<br><a href="http://www.astro4dev.org" target="_blank">www.astro4dev.org</a><br><br></div>
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