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Commonwealth Secretariat press release

Secretary-General to visit Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana

29 April 1999

Commonwealth Secretary-General Chief Emeka Anyaoku will travel to Trinidad & Tobago from 1-6 May to attend the triennial Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting. While there, he will also meet with the Prime Minister and other senior government members, as part of his regular bilateral consultations in the run up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) due to take place in November in South Africa.

The Commonwealth Secretary-General will proceed to Guyana where he will meet the Government leaders, the Leader of the Opposition and other leading figures, to discuss developments in Guyana. While in the country, he also plans to attend a meeting of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, of which he is a member, and to visit the Commonwealth's Iwokrama Rainforest Project.

Note to Editors:
The World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development and the Iwokrama Rainforest Project Chief Anyaoku is a member of the independent World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development - a body established along the lines of the 1987 Brundtland Commission - that has completed an extensive 3-year review of global forest problems. Chief Anyaoku will participate in the launching of its final report, "Our Forests, Our Future" in Georgetown on 7 May 1999. He also plans to visit the Iwokrama International Rainforest Project, which comprises 365,000 hectares of pristine forest generously set aside by Guyana for the Commonwealth and is dedicated to demonstrating that tropical forest resources can be sustainably managed to promote human development.

Issued by the Information and Public Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat,
Marlborough House,
Pall Mall,
London SW1Y 5HX,
United Kingdom.
Tel: 0207-839 3411;
Fax: 0207-839 9081;
Telex: 27678


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