26th General Assembly of the Universal Postal Union representatives in the afternoon local time on September 20 in Istanbul, Turkey, the opening of more than 1,000 delegates from the UPU's 100 member countries attended the opening ceremony. Turkish Prime Minister Bi Donnelly Yildirim, Turkish Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communications Arslan, Turkey postmaster Conan, UPU International Bureau Director-General Bisha Er Hussein attended the opening ceremony. The Delegation of China State Post Bureau, China Post Group Corporation, Hong Kong Post Office and the Post Office of the Macao composed attended the opening ceremony.

The 26th General Assembly in Istanbul on behalf of the UPU opening

Bi Donnelly Yildirim conveyed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated on the successful convening of this conference, and said in his speech that Turkey is the meeting point of East and West of the world, this conference was held in Turkey has a special significance. In the face of globalization, information technology, private competition in the new situation, the UPU plays a unique role in promoting global integration and sustainable development. Turkey is a founding member of UPU. It has a long history of 175 years of Turkish Post, is by optimizing the organizational structure, improve infrastructure, adjust product mix, promote technological innovation, and actively respond to new market changes. He thanked the representative of UPU member countries in Turkey suffered during the terrorist attacks and special coup scheduled the meeting, delegates hope to share their experiences during the General Assembly, aside differences and jointly seek to achieve the sustainable development of the postal industry solutions.

Hussein in his speech to the Turkish government faced the threat of terrorism in the special period of the event sponsored by the decision and determination of deep respect and appreciation. He noted that the global postal industry is at an important transition period of innovation and development, countries need to use the postal network and global diversification of products, adapt to new market changes. UPU plays an important role in the organization and improvement of international postal services, connecting citizens, businesses, community. Postal promote social and economic development as an important infrastructure for the world's more than 1 billion population with letters, parcels and postal financial services to help member countries achieve the United Nations on global sustainable development goals. He called on governments to support the development of the national postal service, postal service continue to make social and economic development of all countries to contribute.

He held a signing ceremony and commemorative stamps issuing ceremony opening ceremony.

UPU UPU Congress is the highest authority, held every four years term. This General Assembly will consider a resolution Istanbul postal development strategies and global four-year business plan, and a series of UPU reform programs have a significant impact on the global postal development, modification UPU Constitution, the General Rules, the Universal Postal Convention and postal payment services agreement and other UPU regulations, ministerial meeting, election of the UPU international Bureau is the Deputy Secretary and members of the UPU Council of Administration and Postal operations Council members, to determine the host country of the next General Assembly. China will campaign in this Assembly UPU Council of Administration and Postal Operations Council members.