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<p><font face="Courier"></font><font face="Univers" size="+2"></font><font face="Univers" size="+2">June 13, 1996 No. 111</font></p>
<p align="CENTER"><font face="Univers" size="+2">MINISTERS CONGRATULATE 1996 FOREIGN SERVICE AWARD
WINNERS</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"></font><font face="Courier">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.</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">The award winners are: </font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"> 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; </font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"> 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;</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"> 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 </font></p>
<p><font face="Courier"> 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. </font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">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. </font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">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, <em>The Globe and Mail</em>.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier">For further information, media representatives may contact:</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">Tony Milic</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Citizenship and Immigration Canada</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">(613) 954-9006</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Debra Hulley</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier">(613) 241-1391</font></p>
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