Malta Taekwondo Federation reaction to world body statement

Reference is made to the article that appeared in the Times of Malta (March 29, 2020) titled “World body appoint interim board to carry Malta reform”. Glorianne Pace, Pierre Genuis and Jonathan Vella, as Executive Committee members of the Malta Taekwondo Federation (MTF), categorically deny that they met with the “high delegation, led by the vice-president of World Taekwondo (WT), (which) visited Malta in mid-December 2019”. They also deny that “the delegation met the Maltese Olympic Committee (MOC), SportMalta and the MTF Executive (Committee) except its Treasurer”. The aforementioned Executive Committee members were not invited to, or informed of this meeting.  As a matter of fact, these Executive Committee members of the MTF had requested to address the concerns they had submitted to the MOC in November, including mishandling of funds and a complete disregard to due processes, with the WT in an amicable manner. However, such request was unfortunately not wholly embraced by the WT, who in turn only met up with the president of the MTF. The suspension that has been imposed by WT on the MTF solely prevents the MTF from attending and participating in any WT event. The MTF has not...