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Speaker commends Ambassador Thomson

July 20, 2016 9:01 pm

Speaker of Parliament Dr Jiko Luveni has congratulated the President-elect of the United Nations General Assembly and Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Peter Thomson.

Dr. Luveni is in New York in the United States for the High Level Political Forum.

She made a courtesy visit to the Fiji Mission where she commended Ambassador Thomson’s hard work and dedication which contributed to his election as President of the UN General Assembly.

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She added the appointment has lifted Fiji’s profile and made it a shining beacon of light in the United Nations.

Ambassador Thomson briefed the Fiji parliament delegation on some of the work that the Fiji Mission at UN headquarters was doing.

He also shed some light on some of the preparatory work for high level UN Conference on Oceans and Seas that will be held in Fiji in June 2017.