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MEMBER OP THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

NIRJ JOSEPH DEVA DL FRSA MEP

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Attn.: Office of Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General By Fax: 001 212963 2155

Regarding: Meeting request for His Excellency Kofi Annan

Dear Madam/Sir,

f the European Parliament and honorary-Ambassador of Sri Lanka ^large,,wJ!LattendJhe U^ and will thus be in Newjfark from Monday, 22 September to Sunday, 28 September. Mj^Devajwpuld very much like to meet His Excellency, the UN Secretary-General, at some point during that week to discuss the post-war situations in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Iraq, and the role the European Union can play in the necessary reconstruction and rehabilitation processes. Could you please be so kind and let me know if such a meeting would at all be possible.

Thanking you in advance, I look forward to hearing from you. With kind regards on behalf of Nirj Deva, C i I

APR 1 2 2004

Marc-Andre Maukisch Political research assistant EOSG / CENTRAL

P.S.: Attached is Mr Deva's CV for His Excellency's background information.

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CONSERVATIVE NjRj JOSEPH DEVA DL FRSA MEP Spokesman for international Development and Co-operation Special Advisor to the Leader of the Conservative Party MEMBER OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FOR THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND Hon Ambassador at Large for Sri Lanka and Advisor to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

Date of Birth: H May 1948 Nationality: British Education: Loughborougli University (Upper Second Honours) Degree in Aeronautical Engineering Post Graduate: Research Fellow in Economics, European Parliament • First person in history to be bom in one continent (Asia), to be elected to the parliament of a cauntry (the UK) in another continent and then elected to represent that country (UK) as a member in a multi-national Parliament, the European Parliament. • Conservative Member of die European Parliament for the South East of England since 1999 (8 million voters) • European Parliament's Rapporteur on the WTO and Development since 2000 • Spokesman for Overseas Development and Co-operation on Development Committee which oversees the USD 18 billion annual budget since 1999 • Member European Parliament Committee on Regions Economy Transport and Tourism since 2002 • European Parliament Delegate to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly of 77 African, Caribbean, Pacific Nations since 1999 • European Parliament Delegate to ASEAN countries since 2002 United Kingdom Parliament and HM Government 1992-1997 • Conservative Member of Parliament for Brentford and Islcworth (1992-1997) • First Asian Conservative MP elected and to serve in HM Government last century • Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt, Hon Lord James Hamilton QC, MP Minister of State Scottish Office • Political Adviser to the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Transport • Chairman of DTJ7NCC Report Air-Transport De-Regulation published by HMSO (March 19S6) • Parliamentary! Committees • UK Parliamentary Committees (Ombudsman) Education • European Standing Committee B House of Commons Bill Committees: (Major Bills) Asylum and Immigration 1992; De-Regulation Bill 1994: Deputy Chairman Aviation Committee, All Party Manufacturing Group; All Party Pensions Group. International Public Appointments • April. 2002: Hon. Advisor and Ambassador at large to die Government of Sn Lanka • 1985 -present: Her Majesty's Deputy Lord Lieutenant forthe Lord Lieutenancy of , representing The Queen in London (first HM Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Asian origin) • Bow Group: Cliairman (1981), Organised First Transatlantic Conference between the Conservative Party (Bow Group)and the Republican Party/Heritage Foundation in Washington in 1981 • Fellow of The Royal Society for Arts and Manufacture (FRSA)

Publications Editor of Crossbow Magazine (premier British political quarterly) 1983-1986 Author of articles and pamphlets on Zimbabwe/Rhodesia; Enterprise zone, Chile the return to Democracy; A critique of the Brandt commission on the New World order Editorials on "Taxation, De-regulation and Economic Development"; "The Wealth of Nations part If" and most recently (2001) the booklet "Who Really Governs Britain?" and in 2002 "WTO - Trade and Development; a new architecture."

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