The conference will be held from 19 to 22 July, 2004 at ICARDA headquarters in Tel-Hadya, which is 32 km south of Aleppo City on the Damascus - Aleppo Highway.
A large meeting room for all participants, equipped with the needed facilities for the workshop such as computers, data show projector, overhead & slide projectors, microphones, and recording facilities will be available during the meeting. A heavy-duty photocopy machine, fax and e-mail facilities will also be available for use, when needed.
Coffee and tea breaks will be arranged in the lobby at the front of the meeting room.
The conference will be presented in English.

Syria: ICARDA's Host Country
Syria is a unique country of startling and pleasant contrasts. An ancient land with time worn monuments and age old traditions, Syria is also a bustling, energetic Republic well along on the road of modernization and development. In Syrian cities one often sees grizzled, weathered Bedouins rubbing shoulders with highly educated professionals. Syrians are well acquainted with many ways of the West, but still cherish their own traditions and customs. It is this unique blend of old and new, familiar and exotic, continuity and change that every first time visitor senses. ICARDA hopes that during your stay in Syria, you will have an opportunity to savour this diversity and to become acquainted with the generous and friendly people who are our hosts.