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DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

CANBERRA

FOR THE PRESS

PR 64

24th April, 1968.

AUSTRALIAN DELEGATION TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Australian delegation to the resumed Twenty—Second Session of the

United Nations General Assembly was announced today by the Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Paul Hasluck.

The resumed session opens in New York on 24th April. The 'items on its agenda are the report of the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee and in particular the draft treaty on the non—proliferation of nuclear weapons; the Middle East situation; and the question of South West Africa.

The delegation is as follows:

Representatives

Mr. Patrick Shaw, C.B.E.9 Australian Ambassador to the United Nations

Mr. W.B. Pritchett, Assistant Secretary, Department of External Affairs, Canberra.

Alternate Representatives

Dr. A.R.W. Wilson, Australian Atomic Energy Commission

Mr. G.F. Cawsey, Department of Supply

Mr. J.R. Kelso, Australian Permanent Mission, New York,

Advisers

Mr. M.J. McKeown, Australian Permanent Mission, New York.

Mr. D.W. E,Vans, Australian Permanent Mission, New Yorke

Mr. W.G.T. Miller, Australian Permanent Mission, New York.

Press Officer

Mr. I. Hamilton, Australian News & Information Bureau, New York.

