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Date: February 23, 1998
 

"At the Brink with Iraq?" to be Topic of Woodrow Wilson School Lecture

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Stephen Gomersall, deputy permanent representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, will speak on "At the Brink with Iraq? A View from the Security Council" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, March 3, at 8:00 p.m., in Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.

Gomersall holds degrees from Cambridge and Stanford and has served with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the former Rhodesia and in Washington DC. He was counselor and head of the Economic Section in the British Embassy in Tokyo from 1986 until 1990. His most recent posting, before joining the U.K. Mission to the United Nations, was as head of the Security Policy Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

The Woodrow Wilson School and the United Nations Association of the United States of America are sponsoring Gomersall's talk.


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