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						<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="btxblack">SG ILO Pacific 30th anniversary 15Dec05<br/>  </span><span class="btxblack"><br/>  INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION<br/>  PUBLIC LECTURE<br/>  Holiday Inn, Suva, Fiji, 15 November 2005<br/>  <br/>  REGIONALISM AND THE PACIFIC PLAN<br/>  Greg Urwin, Secretary General<br/>  <br/>  Ladies and gentlemen: first, I would like to take this opportunity to join others and congratulate the ILO on its 30 years of work in the Pacific region since its establishment in Suva in 1975. The region has been much the better for it and you have our best wishes for the future.</span>
					
				
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