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The Commonwealth Secretariat's Work Programme in Education
Ministers will receive a report on the
the work education of the
programme in the Commonwealth Secretariat for triennium, and will be asked to give guidance on priorities the 1987-90 for the period 1990-1993.
Other Issues
to
to
The Conference's Provisional Agenda will also allow for the raising of other important issues. You will have noted for example that the global environment, and combat the abuse of drugs,
programmes were of Commonwealth Heads
great concern of Government when they
they met
met in Kuala Lumpur last October, and you may wish to discuss the role of education in relation to these issues.
The Director of the Secretariat's Education Programme, who will be your Conference Secretary, will shortly write to invite your Government to contribute a paper on its experiences in the areas covered by the main theme. Not later than the end of May, he will again be in touch with you to outline the administrative arrangements for the Conference, including advice on travel and accommodation. I very much hope all represented at ministerial level.
governments will be
as
Commonwealth
Finally, as I approach the end of my term Secretary-General, I should like to take this opportunity thank your Government for its interest
to for its interest in and backing for Secretariat's work in education over
the over the last fifteen years. I am confident that you will give my successor, Anyaoku,
Chief the
Emeka same support. I firmly believe constitutes
that education one of the most significant binding forces in the modern Commonwealth, and one that will remain a strength to our Association
source of in future. heartened by the enthusiasm of Commonwealth countries, manifested I have been greatly in material ways in recent years, for co-operative activity in education and I trust that this process will be given further impetus by your forthcoming Conference in Barbados, for which I send you my very best wishes.
Slowball Raspel
Shridath S Ramphal
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