§ Mr. Peter AtkinsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what involvement the United Kingdom Government had in the UN's Special Committee on Decolonisation's conference Advancing the Decolonisation Process in the Caribbean and Bermuda held in Anguilla last month. [118890]
§ Mr. MacShaneThe Chairman of the UN decolonisation committee asked last year whether the Committee's annual seminar could be held in 2003 on a UK Caribbean Overseas Territory. We and the Anguillian Government agreed the request and subsequently signed an agreement with the UN covering practical arrangements.
The seminar, which took place from 20–22 May, was attended by Chief Ministers and senior representatives of a number of UK Overseas Territories. The FCO was represented by the Deputy Head of Overseas Territories Department and a representative of the UK Mission to the UN.