Greg Urwin Politician
Gregory Lawrence Urwin PSM CSI (21 August 1946 – 9 August 2008) was an Australian career diplomat and top Pacific specialist. Urwin held the post of Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, an important inter-governmental regional organisation from 2004 until 2 May 2008. Urwin had been the longest serving Australian diplomat in the Pacific at the time of his death in 2008. Urwin was also the first non-Pacific Islander to become Secretary General of the Pacific Island Forum.During his tenure as a diplomat and Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Urwin was considered to be instrumental in the rebuilding of failed states and promotion of political stability in the region - especially with the RAMSI mission in the Solomon Islands.
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- http://fijidailypost.com/news.php?section=1&fijidailynews=18209
- http://www.forumsec.org.fj/index.cfm
- http://www.pacificplan.org
- http://www.pina.com.fj/?p=pacnews&m=read&o=71304253149812d59aacb98b652f2f
- http://www.ramsi.org/node/297
- http://www.samoa.embassy.gov.au
- http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24165701-5013404,00.html