Portant Review Of South Pacific

Ference To Meet

[?]Anberra

Commission

The Review Conference of the South Pacific Commission will be mally opened by the Australian Minister for External Affairs at iberra, Australia, at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 30; and it is expected last until about May 8.

3 review of the past work, iresent condition and future isefulness of the Commission een arranged since the Third Pacific Conference in Suva, >ril, 1956. The opinion then xpressed that, in the light of seven years’ operation, the are and machinery of the nation should be examined.

Conference will examine all s of the organisation, includ the work programme and e, and it will review the work the South Pacific Commission, •search Council and the South 5 Conference. In addition, it xamine the relations of the Pacific Commission with international bodies. following are the delegates ch the Australian Department ernal Affairs had had advice April 4:

France

Hency M. Renaud Sivan, French Am pr in Australia. (Leader).

Lasalle-Sere, Senior Commissioner for to the S.P.C. *ons. Second Commissioner for France

S.P.C.

ipoe Benoist, Ministry of Foreign f Paris.

Netherlands

ellency Mr. A. M. L. Winkelman, ands Ambassador in Australia. (Leader), i. van Beuge, Senior Commissioner for stherlands to the S.P.C., Ministry of as Affairs, The Hague.

M. Jaquet, Minstry of Foreign Affairs, ague.

Jergsma, Second Commissioner for the ends to the S.P.C. (Adviser).

United Kingdom

Rogers, C.M.G., Under-Secretary, 1 Office. (Leader).

Id Garvey, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.0., M.8.E., Commissioner for the U.K. to the land Governor of Fiji, i Gutch, C.M.G., 0.8. E., High Com er for the "Western Pacific. . Jerrom, Principal, Colonial Office. faskess. Second Commissioner for the Mviser).

United States

N. Walmesley, Deputy Assistant Sec tor International Organisation Affairs.

M. Keesing, Senior Commissioner for 5- to the S.P.C. swles A. Ryerson, Commissioner for 5. to the S.P.C.

Mr. J. Bolard More, State Department (Adviser).

Miss E. H. Barr, State Department (Adviser).

Mr. W. L. Yeomans, Department of the Interior. (Adviser).

The delegations for Australia and New Zealand were not known on April 8. It was known, however, that Mr. W. D. Forsyth would rep resent the Australian Department of External Affairs on the Australian delegation.

Mr. Forsyth was the first Secre tary-General (1948-51) of the Com mission; and he subsequently (1951- 56) was Minister in charge of the Australian Mission to the United Nations. Another member of the

External Affairs Department, Mr.

R. A. Peachey, is the organiser of this Review Conference, and will be closely associated with its work.

The Secretary-General of the Commission, Dr. R. C. Bedell (whose headquarters, of course, are in Noumea), will be in Canberra dur ing the Conference, for consulta tion as required.