The meetings have been pushed back in order to allow more time for delegates to arrive from last week's International Olympic Committee Session almost 15,000 kilometres away in Lima.

Proceedings will begin tomorrow with a series of OCA Committee meetings.

An OCA Executive Committee meeting will then be held here at the Olympia Hotel on Tuesday (September 19).

It will be followed by the 36th General Assembly of the continental body the next day.

It will mark the second OCA General Assembly held in Ashgabat in two years after the 2015 event also took place there.

Preparations for the Jakarta 2018 Asian Games are expected to be among the leading items on the agenda in the absence of any decisions on host cities for future events.

The sports programme is set to be finalised following numerous changes in recent years.

insidethegames reported in April that cricket, skateboarding, sambo and surfing had been axed from the programme in order to reduce the events from 493 to 431 - but it is possible this has now changed.

It had initially been thought that hosts for 2021 Asian Winter Games and the next edition of the Asian Beach Games - expected to be held in 2020 rather than 2018 - could also be announced.

Goa in India is poised to be confirmed as the location for the latter event.

But insidethegames now understands that this depends on the support of the new Government in the region.

Another issue up for debate could involve a motion on whether Oceania can participate at future editions of the summer Asian Games starting in 2022 in Hangzhou.

OCA President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah is expected to chair both the Executive Committee meeting and the General Assembly after he missed the IOC Session in order to be present here.

It has been a difficult year for the OCA during which both Sheikh Ahmad and director general Husain Al-Musallam have been forced to deny wrongdoing after being implicated in a United States Department of Justice probe into FIFA corruption in which it was alleged that money was channeled through the OCA. 

The OCA have also developed five regional headquarters rather than keep their sole home within Kuwait as a result of tensions between sporting and political bodies in the Gulf nation.

It is possible but not yet clear if these two issues will also be discussed here this week.

The meetings will all follow the Opening Ceremony of the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games taking place here today.