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M229 18 December 1992

DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT: KENYA

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Senator Gareth Evans, today  announced the appointment of Mr Lawry Herron as Australia's High  Commissioner to Kenya.

Senator Evans said that Mr Herron would begin his appointment at a very  important time in Kenya's history, immediately after the country's first multiÂ­ party elections for 10 years on 29 December.

"Australia welcomes and is committed to supporting the recent trend towards  multi-party democracy in Africa, of the which the Kenyan elections will be the  latest example," Senator Evans said.

Mr Herron's accreditations from Nairobi will include Somalia where, for the  first 17 weeks in 1993, more than 900 Australian troops will be helping to  provide security for the distribution of humanitarian relief.

Mr Herron will also be accredited to Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

Mr Herron is a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and  Trade whose last posting was as Australian's Ambassador to Poland,  Czechoslovakia and the former German Democratic Republic from 1987-91.  He was Legal Adviser at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna  from 1979-83.

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