Gibraltar’s representation at the Labour Party Conference continued yesterday evening with the Gibraltar Reception hosted by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and featuring a keynote speech by the UK Minister for Europe and the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty MP.
The Minister the Environment, Dr John Cortes, and the Chief Executive for the Department of the Environment, Dr Liesl Mesilio -Torres, have been invited by the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki- Moon to attend the United Nations Climate Summit to be held at the UN Headquarters in New York today.
Gibraltar was recently represented by Mr. Ian Leyde, of Gibraltar House, London at the Merchant Navy Memorial Day in Liverpool. A service, attended by representatives of People's Republic of China, India, the Netherlands and Canada paid respect to the 60,000 Merchant Navy sailors who died during World War II. Liverpool was the main base for the Battle of the Atlantic, in which 36,000 merchant seamen died.