
The General Assembly, seen as an important step on the road to the Toronto 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games next July, was due to start on Sunday (September 7) at the Mexican beach resort Puerto Vallarta and last until the following Wednesday (September 10).
But insidethegames has learned that delegates from each of the 41 NOCs affiliated to PASO have received a letter notifying them that the meeting has been cancelled.
It is believed the ill health of the 82-year-old, who headed the Association of National Olympic Committees from 1979 to 2012, was the reason for the postponement.
No new date has yet been given for the annual meeting.

The postponement comes at a crucial stage in preparations with just 10 months to go until Toronto 2015, taking place on July 10 to 26 next year.
Other than that, ensuring the development of Pan American nations in a sporting sense can also have been expected to feature, with less than two years to go until Rio 2016, the first Summer Olympics on Pan American soil since Atlanta 1996.
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