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MINISTERS CONGRATULATE 1996 FOREIGN SERVICE AWARD WINNERS
June 13, 1996 No. 111
MINISTERS CONGRATULATE 1996 FOREIGN SERVICE AWARD
WINNERS
Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, Minister for International Trade Art
Eggleton and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Lucienne Robillard today
congratulated the four winners of the 1996 Canadian Foreign Service Officer
Awards.
The award winners are:
Kerry Buck, Second Secretary at the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United
Nations in New York, for her significant contribution to Canada's leading role at
the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women at Beijing in September 1995;
Eduardo del Buey, Counsellor in Charge of the Cultural, Media and Academic
Relations Section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City, for his outstanding work
to enhance cultural and academic relations between Canada and Spain and Canada and
Mexico;
Dominic Scott, an Officer with the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei, for his role
in planning, developing and implementing "Festival Canada," a six-week integrated
series of business, cultural, educational and immigration-related activities, in
Taiwan in April-May 1996; and
Anne Arnott, Deputy Director, Eastern Europe Division, International Region,
Citizenship and Immigration, in recognition of her consistent and exceptional
performance in delivering Canada's immigration programs throughout her career.
The Canadian Foreign Service Officer Awards were instituted in 1990 by the
Professional Association of Foreign service Officers (PAFSO) to acknowledge
exceptional achievements by career foreign service officers.
Judges for this year's Awards were Georges H. Blouin, formerly Chief of Protocol
for the Canadian Government and Ambassador to the Netherlands, Spain and Cameroon;
Meriel V.M. Bradford, Vice-President of Government and Regulatory Affairs,
Teleglobe Inc.; Mark Drake, President of the Alliance of Manufacturers and
Exporters Canada; D. Ian Glen, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Operations), Privy
Council Office; and Jeff Sallot, Diplomatic Correspondent in the Parliamentary
Bureau, The Globe and Mail.
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For further information, media representatives may contact:
Media Relations Office
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(613) 995-1874
Tony Milic
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
(613) 954-9006
Debra Hulley
Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers
(613) 241-1391
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