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<b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> press-releases-bounces@lists.spc.int [mailto:press-releases-bounces@lists.spc.int]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>SPC Media<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 13, 2017 12:57 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SPC-News] PACIFIC COMMUNITY CONGRATULATES 'UTOIKAMANU ON HIGH LEVEL UN APPOINTMENT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt">MEDIA RELEASE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:17.0pt;line-height:115%">Pacific Community congratulates ‘Utoikamanu on high level UN appointment
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">13 April 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Noumea, New Caledonia</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> – The Pacific Community (SPC) offers its congratulations
on the appointment of the Kingdom of Tonga’s Fekita ‘Utoikamanu to the esteemed position of United Nations High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States by the United Nation’s Secretary-General,
Mr <span style="background:white">Antonio Guterres</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">SPC Director-General, Dr Colin Tukuitonga congratulated ‘Utoikamanu, a former SPC Deputy Director-General,
<span style="background:white">with assurances of SPC’s support in carrying her duties forward and the important work of the global multilateral body.</span>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">“<span style="background:white">SPC joins the global community in unified voice and common agenda for sustainable development. From the Pacific, climate
change and sustainable environmental management is especially pressing, and it brings us great pleasure that Ms ‘Utoikamanu has been appointed to champion these and other efforts of global concern,” Dr Tukuitonga said.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;background:white">“Utoikamanu is an accomplished and well respected diplomat, and we are confident that she will lead her office and their important
programmes of work with great vision, integrity and resolve,” he concluded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Ms ‘Utoikamanu was SPC’s Deputy Director-General from 2009 to 2015. Prior to that, she served as Tonga’s Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the United Nations, United
States of America, Cuba and Venezuela and High Commissioner to Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">SPC is a Permanent Observer to the UN since 2014, following the adoption of a resolution by the UN General Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Media contact:
</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Inga Mangisi-Mafileo Acting Director, Communications and Public Information, SPC
<a href="mailto:fonongam@spc.int">fonongam@spc.int</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">
</span> or +679 337 9451<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">About Us:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">SPC is the principal scientific and technical organisation in the Pacific region, supporting sustainable development since 1947. It is an intergovernmental development organisation owned and governed
by its 26 country and territory members.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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