new delhi international olympic committee has invited sports minister ms gill for a meeting on june 18 in switzerland to discuss the contentious tenure limitation guidelines while insisting that the regulations should not be implemented till thenfollowing our previous communications in relation to the current situation of the olympic and sports movement in india and as directed by ioc president i would like to invite you for a meeting on 18th june afternoon at the ioc in lausanne switzerland in order to discuss and review this situation with you iocs national olympic committee noc relations director pere miro wrote in his letter to gillioc member randhir singh and husain almusallam director general and technical director of the olympic council asia oca will also be present in the meeting miro said in the letterthe ioc official also made it clear that the sports ministry should not implement the guidelines meant for the sports bosses in the country till thenas already mentioned in our previous letters until we may discuss these issues openly and amicably it is our understanding that the guidelines which were issued by your ministry will not be imposed on the organisations of the olympic movement in india miro addedthe guidelines in question seek to limit the tenure of national sports federation nsf presidents to 12 years suggest that secretaries and treasurers cannot function more than eight years at a stretch and advocates a 70year retirement age for all executivesnsfs and the indian olympic association are up in arms against the guidelines which they feel is a breach of the olympic charter and an infringement on their autonomy they also have the support of both ioc and ocathe ioc in fact has threatened to take up the issue in its executive board meeting later this month with hints that implementation of the guidelines might lead to an international ban on indiaioc member and ioa secretary general randhir singh however hoped that such an eventuality is avoidedim going to the meeting in lausanne i hope better sense prevails and the olympic charter is respected and understood by all i also hope no attempts is made to infringe the autonomy of the national olympic committee or the nsfs randhir saidthe sports ministry cited laws in countries like sri lanka and malaysia to push through the guidelines even though officials there had something different to sayhemasiri fernando who has been at the helm of the national olympic committee noc in sri lanka for the last 13 years said the sri lankan sport law of 1973 which initially prescribed a twotenure limit for the sports administrators has been amended since thenin 1993 an amendment was made to the law to restrict the officebearers tenures to a maximum of two terms in 2006 that clause was dropped and there is no limit to an officebearers term here fernando saidthere is no restriction to the terms and i have been the head of the noc here for the last 13 years fernando said from colomboan