The Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), visited Brussels for meetings with senior officials of the European Commission and took the opportunity to also meet with Samoa’s Ambassador to the EU, H.E. Fatumanava Dr Pa’olelei Luteru. The Secretary-General reiterated UNWTO’s appreciation of Samoa’s strategic role in declaring

The ACP Council of Ministers met from 29-30 November in Brussels to consider amongst other issues the organisation’s budget for 2017 and to decide on the Group’s future post-2020. This was a landmark and defining session given the need for Council to take decisions which would guide the Group’s work

In preparation for the official launch of the International Year for Sustainable Tourism Development (IYSTD2017) on 18 January 2017, the second meeting of the Steering Committee took place at UNWTO headquarters on 21 November 2016.  The main purpose of the meeting was to share and exchange information as well as

The High Commissioner of Samoa, His Excellency Fatumanava Dr Pa’olelei Luteru, paid a courtesy call on the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth at Marlborough House in London from his base in Brussels on 15 November 2016. Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and Ambassador Luteru had a wide-ranging discussion about excellent relations between the

The QCC was launched at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting held in Malta in 2015.  It is a unique network of forest conservation initiatives which embraces all 52 countries of the Commonwealth.  It presents a rare opportunity for the Commonwealth family to play its part in saving one of

The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) received on Wednesday 26 October 2016 His Excellency Fatumanava III Dr Pa’olelei Luteru, Ambassador, who presented her with the letters accrediting him as Permanent Delegate of Samoa to UNESCO. Ambassador Luteru thanked the Director-General for the support and

In conformity with the provisions of Article 3 of the above convention, the Ambassador of Samoa to Belgium and the EU formally deposited with the Secretary-General of the World Customs Organisation the instrument of accession thereby acceding to the said convention and undertakes to perform and carry out the stipulations

The Ambassador of Samoa to Belgium and the European Union & Coordinator of the ACP Group SIDS platform, H.E. Fatumanava Dr Pa’olelei Luteru, chaired the proceedings of the ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Brussels Briefing held on 21st September 2016 on the theme, “Agribusiness development & Tourism Markets

Samoa was one of five countries that signed up to the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters on 25th August 2016. The Convention was developed jointly by the OECD and the Council of Europe in 1988 and amended in 2010 to respond to the call by the