(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)
The new Permanent Representative of Samoa to the United Nations, Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Dr Pa’olelei Luteru, paid a courtesy call on UN Secretary-General António Guterres today. He earlier presented his credentials to the Secretariat on 2 June (see Press Release BIO/5397).
Prior to his latest appointment, Mr. Luteru was ambassador to Belgium and the European Union and bilaterally accredited to the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. He was concurrently Samoa’s Permanent Representative and delegate to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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University of the South Pacific (USP) vice-chancellor and president Pal Ahluwalia. Photo: USP/RNZ
The University of the South Pacific council has voted to issue Professor Pal Ahluwalia with a new contract as Vice Chancellor, frustrating attempts by Fiji to remove him.
The governing body of the regional university also voted to relocate the Vice Chancellor’s office from the USP’s main campus in Suva, Fiji, to the its Alafua Campus in Apia, Samoa.
Professor Ahluwalia and his wife were forced to leave Fiji in early February after the government claimed the couple had breached provisions in their work permits.