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FIGO's busy year
Having just celebrated its 20th anniversary since its establishment in 1983, the Falkland Islands Government Office in London is embarked on a busy year.
Following upon last year's anniversary commemoration of Falklands liberation from Argentine invasion and the veterans' mass pilgrimage to the Islands, a series of photographic exhibitions illustrating Falklands life have again been organised ? at the Royal Highland Show (June 19-22), the Royal Show (June 29-July 2) and, it is hoped, in Guernsey, prior to the Island Games, from June 28 to July 4th, to which the Falklands will be sending a team of sports people.
Two Councillors, Richard Cockwell and Stephen Luxton, are attending the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association seminar in London from June 15th to 20th. Councillors Mike Summers and John Birmingham will be putting the Falklands case in the annual debate of the United Nations (Decolonisation) Committee of 24 in New York, around June 11th.
The Falklands Government Representative, Sukey Cameron, will be attending the Party Political Conferences in the United Kingdom lobbying support for the Islands.
FIGO staff changes Two staff changes will be made in the Falkland Islands Government Office in London in July. Jenny Smith will be involved in extensive travel representing the Falklands Government in Brussels as well as in Stanley and London in her new appointment as External Development Assistance Programme Officer, responsible for accessing European Union funding.
Debbie Ford, who has been based in London for several years, is returning to the Falkland Islands as Travel Representative to the Falkland Islands Tourist Board, based in Stanley. She played an important part in the pilgrimage by more than 200 Falklands 1982 South Atlantic Medal Association veterans last year, accompanying the ex-servicemen on their trip to the Falklands.
The Falkland Government has appointed a different firm, Edelman, to provide advice on political affairs in London and in Brussels. The Falklands account director at Westminster Strategy, Susan Eastoe, has joined Edelman.
Deputy Governor posted appointed to Montserrat The Foreign Office official, Mr Russ Jervis, First Secretary at Government House and also Deputy Governor, is leaving the Falklands Islands after six-and-a half years. He has been appointed First Secretary to the Caribbean Island of Montserrat.
His replacement in the Falklands Islands will be Harriet Hall, who worked in the South Atlantic and Antarctic Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1992 to 1994, and a for a few months in Stanley in 1995.
Harold Briley, (MP) London
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