Learn English – Focal Person Meaning

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The meeting also decided to nominate focal persons from both sides who will coordinate with officials in Pakistan and Iran for resolving issues of pilgrims during their travel from Quetta to the border and from there to holy sites in Iran.

Can someone please elaborate the term 'focal person'. I tried to run a search for it on google but could not find any mention of it on any website. What I got was the meaning of focal which does not seem to fit in this term. Thank you!

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Focal person doesn't have a special meaning apart from the literal words.

Google provides a good definition of focal:

relating to the center or main point of interest.

So focal person as it's used in your example would mean "person who is the center or main point of interest."

I get the feeling "leader" is what's truly meant/desired, but a neutral term has been used to prevent communicating that anyone has more power than anyone else. Business communication does this thing all the time across hierarchical boundaries (compare with the business-speak use of the word "partner", for example).

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