STAMP ISSUES FROM 2015 TO 2018

Paraguay – Tribute to the Dirección Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil (DINAC)

Issue date: 10/12/2018
	Map of Paraguay and various flying routes to the surrounding countries. Emblems of ICAO and DINAC (Dirección Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil, i.e. the Civil Aviation Authority in Paraguay). Text in Spanish: NUESTRO PROPÓSITO ES EL VUELO SECURO, which is translated into OUR MISION IS (TO PROVIDE) SECURE FLIGHT. Horizontal Se-tenant pair (pair of differing stamps throughout the sheet).
Full sheet of 10 se-tenant stamps. DINACOPA 2017 in the margin.
Official First Day Cover.
Background: On 6 December 2017, at the Convention Center of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), the protocolary ceremony of the Fifteenth Meeting of Civil Aeronautics Authorities of the South American Region (RAAC/15), was chaired by Mr. Luis Manuel Aguirre Martínez, President of the National Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DINAC or Civil Aviation Authority) of Paraguay, who was accompanied by Mr. Oscar Quesada-Carboni, Acting Regional Director of ICAO’s SAM Office, Dr. Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu, President of ICAO’s Council and Mrs. Raquel Colmán de Pereira, Philatelic Director of the DINACOPA. During this ceremony, the President of the ICAO Council (left on the following picture) presented the ICAO Council President Certificate to the DINAC President, Dr. Luis Manuel Aguirre Martinez (centre), accompanied by the Acting Regional Director of the ICAO South American Office, Mr. Oscar Quesada-Carboni (right). A second Certificate was awarded to Brigadier Antonio Alarcón, the Head of Uruguay’s CAA, DINACIA. Further to the award received by the DINAC, Mrs. Raquel Comán De Pereira, DINACOPA’s Philatelic Director, announced that the Post Office planned to later issue a stamp in honor of the DINAC.