Claude Charland
Claude joined the Trade Commissioner Service in 1957. He served in New Orleans (1958), Lagos (1961- 62), Sao Paolo (1965-67), Brussels (1967-69), and twice in Paris, (1958- 61 and 1970-73). He was appointed an assistant deputy minister in 1973 and served in…
L’Institut canadien du service extérieur : Des fleurs ou des cochons
Fleurs ou cochons (d’Inde, bien sûr), à vous de choisir. Ou plutôt non, ne choisissez pas, puisque pendant un peu plus de trois mois, nous, les trente cinq « cobayes » de l’Institut canadien du service extérieur, avons été à la fois…
The Canadian Foreign Service Institute
The establishment of the Canadian Foreign Service Institute (CFSI) by External Affairs and International Trade Canada (EAITC) is good news. It is the manifestation of a different kind of thinking in the Department. Its very existence embodies a guarantee that the unique…
L’ONU sera-t-elle à la hauteur de la tâche?
Allocution de l’Ambassadeur Louise Fréchette lors d’un déjeûner-causerie organisé par le Conseil des Relations Internationales de Montréal (CORIM), jeudi le 25 février 1993.
Towards a New World Order
One of the more difficult problems now facing all NATO governments, individually and collectively, is how to structure national armed forces to meet the largely unknowable requirements of the decades ahead.
Habbakuk, Planet and All That
When I came to the East Block in 1938, I had no particular experience in filing nor in record keeping, though I had had a working acquaintance with many consecutive years of despatches, minutes and memoranda of C.O. series in the Public…
Sweepings from the Cutting Room Floor
“In response to the government’s call for fiscal responsibility and budgetary restraint, External Affairs and International Trade Canada (EAITC) has announced the closure of a number of embassies and the recall of Canadian diplomats. In a series of sweeping initiatives, EAITC has…
VIET NAM: Meeting Foreign Policy and Development Objectives
It was the last day of the CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) Planning Mission to Viet Nam and so we decided to enjoy our final hours in Hanoi, a once-French colonial city now slightly worse for war and wear. Rosalind knew of…
The United States in Transition
The following article was adapted from informal remarks made on 19 January 1993 in Ottawa by David T. Jones (Minister-Counsellor for Political Affairs, American Embassy) to the PAFSO Professional Committee.
Letters // Correspondance
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