CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE INTER-MINISTERIAL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING (CHOGM 2005)

CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE INTER-MINISTERIAL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING (CHOGM 2005)

The Government has appointed Ambassador Salv. J. Stellini Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which is to be held in Malta in November 2005.  Representatives from the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Investment Promotion, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry for Justice and Home Affairs will form the core membership of the Committee.  Representatives from other Ministries will also be requested to participate on an ‘ad hoc’ basis.  

Ambassador Stellini, who currently holds a part-time position of Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Investment Promotion, possesses extensive experience in the field of foreign affairs having served in this Ministry for over thirty years with overseas service ‘inter alia’ as Ambassador in Washington and High Commissioner in London .   In the late 1960’s he was posted to Malta’s Mission to the UN and during the 1970’s served on secondment for three years at the Commonwealth Secretariat as Assistant Director in the Office of the Secretary-General and in the Department for International Affairs.   During his career he was involved in three other CHOGMS, in London , Lusaka , and Durban .  Ambassador Stellini was appointed Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1996 and held this position until his retirement in 2001.

DOI  14.05.2004