NEWS FROM GILBERT HOUSE
Responsibilities and Rights of People and Parliaments in a Global Community is the theme of the Small Countries and 50th Plenary Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association which will take place in Canada from the 30th August to 9th September 2004.
The Falkland Islands will be represented at the conferences by Councillor Richard Cockwell (Senior Member of the British Islands and Mediterranean Region on the Executive Committee) Councillor John Birmingham and the Clerk of Councils Claudette Anderson MBE.
Councillor Cockwell will begin work in Ottawa a day before the others when the Executive Committee commences business. The Small Countries Conference will be held in Quebec City over two days and will link into the Executive by videoconferencing.
Councillor Birmingham has been asked to be Lead Speaker of the Working Group on Sustainable Tourism Resources and the Clerk of Councils will work for both Conferences and attend the Society of Clerks-at-the-Table meetings.
The 50th Plenary conference will open in Quebec City and all delegates will move to Toronto for the closing days.
Councillor Birmingham leaves the Islands on the 5th August and will be taking some holiday in England and Canada prior to the start of the Conference. Councillor Cockwell and the Clerk of Councils leave the Islands later in August.
The cost of travel and accommodation for the Falkland delegation will be reimbursed to FIG.
3rd August 2004.
Gilbert House
Stanley
