A Challenge for the new age
Modernisation, communications and innovation are now a reality and an integrated
part of our everyday life at the office of the FCI. In response to the many solicitations
that reach us daily from every part of the globe, we supply information and try
to provide the best possible services to our member countries and to the world of
organised dog-related activities.
In fact we continuously strive for excellence.
Suddenly the world has gone global in many respects and all of us feel the need
to be in full and immediate contact at all moments. Consequently, the need to communicate
within the major areas of our activities has increased and so have the demands for
immediate responses. For this reason also, the requests that are forwarded to our
Organisation at management level have increased tremendously and almost instantly.
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Carla Molinari
Treasurer of the FCI
Recent passage of anti-gay laws in Russia
A high number of members of the dog lovers community has reported to the FCI offices
to have been deeply shaken by the recent passage of anti-gay laws in Russia and
by their enforcement during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The FCI General Committee
regretfully learned that these laws created large discussions on a very broad scale
all over the World.
The FCI General Committee would like to express its deep concern about this situation
and about the way it will affect the future of the canine world in Russia.
Moreover, we want to firmly reaffirm the FCI’s identification with the Olympic values:
- excellence: to do one’s best
- friendship: women and men at the heart of the bridging between people, standing
together to build a peaceful world
- respect: for oneself, for others
More than hundred-year-old FCI has been supporting the well-being of all dogs worldwide,
in a family spirit with its now 87 members (i.e. 87 countries), taking responsibility
for safeguarding canine health and international dog activities to enhance the relations
between dogs and humans.
Dogs are inspiring and teach us a lot, but right now let’s focus on this: they do
not discriminate. They always love us and accept us AS WE ARE.
The FCI General Committee and - as far as we know - dog owners, exhibitors, breeders
and handlers, we all strive to organise and participate in events in a world where
we would be treated like dogs treat us, without any discrimination. This has been,
is and will be one of our supreme mottos.
The FCI General Committee