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Falklands’ legislators will be meeting US and Canadian officials in Washington and Canada

MLAs Dick Sawle and Roger Edwards will meet US State Department officials

Falkland Islands Members of the Legislative Assembly Roger Edwards and Dick Sawle will be in New York June 21 to attend the United Nations Committee of 24 sessions and later will meet US and Canada officials in Washington and Ottawa.

The Special Committee on the Situation with regards to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, or C24 will listen to the speeches from both Falklands’ MLAs and petitioners regarding the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute.

While in the United States both MLAs will visit Washington for briefings/meetings with the State Department and the US Senate. Edwards and Sawle have also programmed to travel to Ottawa, Canada to meet with Parliamentarians June 22 and 23.

MLA Edwards will be arriving in the US from the Caribbean islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines where he addressed the Caribbean Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism: Goals and Expected Accomplishments Seminar.

MLA Edwards is expected back in the Falklands via Santiago, Chile on 25 June.

From North America MLA Sawle will travel on to the UK and the Small Island Games on the Isle of Wight to represent the Assembly and to support the Falklands teams. After a short holiday he will attend the Stanley Services board meeting and the Annual Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference in London from 21-28 July, returning to the Falklands on 3rd August.