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WKF Organising Committee Chair Marton Falusi visited WKF Headquarters in Madrid on March 26, meeting with WKF President Antonio Espinós and CEO Sara Wolff to revise organisational matters for upcoming major events on the international karate calendar. This followed the signing of an agreement on March 20 between WKF President Antonio Espinós and International School Sport Federation (ISF) President Željko Tanasković in Belgrade, Serbia, hosted by the Ministry of Sport, to promote karate and school sport worldwide. Earlier, on March 9, WKF President Espinós and UNAOC Under-Secretary-General Miguel Ángel Moratinos signed a collaboration partnership agreement in Madrid, with the WKF joining UNAOC's Sport for the #OneHumanity campaign to highlight sport’s role in advancing inclusion, diversity, and mutual understanding. Previously, Guardian Girls Karate marked International Women’s Day on March 8 with a key expansion in Asia at a Tokyo event, certifying sixteen new instructors from Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Macao, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. This instructor course had opened in Tokyo on March 7, representing a significant step for the program's expansion across Asia in the coming months.
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