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<p><font face="Courier"></font><font face="Univers" size="+2"></font><font face="Univers" size="+2">November 25, 1997 No. 197</font></p>
<p align="CENTER"><font face="Univers" size="+2">DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy announces the appointment of <strong>Leonard J.
Edwards</strong> as Ambassador to Japan.</font></p>
<p align="CENTER"><font face="Univers" size="+1">Biographical Note</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"><strong>Leonard J. Edwards</strong> (BA, University of Saskatchewan, 1967; MA [History], University
of Saskatchewan, 1969) joined the Department of External Affairs in 1969. He
served abroad in Saigon, Hanoi and Ankara, as well as with the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization Secretariat in Brussels and with the Permanent Mission of
Canada to the United Nations at Geneva. From 1991 to 1994, he served as Ambassador
to the Republic of Korea. In Ottawa, Mr. Edwards has held a number of positions,
including Deputy Executive Director and subsequently Executive Director, Summits
Management Office, with responsibility for the organization of the 1988 and 1995
Economic Summits and the 1987 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. He has
also served as Director General, Corporate Management Bureau (1988-91) and
Assistant Deputy Minister, Asia Pacific (1994-96). Since 1996, Mr. Edwards has
been Assistant Deputy Minister for Trade and Economic Policy, with special
responsibility, as Canada's senior APEC official, for preparing this week's APEC
Economic Leaders' meeting in Vancouver. Mr. Edwards is married to
Margaret E. McDonald and they have two children. He succeeds Donald Campbell.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier">For further information, media representatives may contact:</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Debora Brown</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">(613) 995-1851</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Media Relations Office</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">(613) 995-1874</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">This document is also available on the Department's Internet site:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca</font></p>
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