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Friday, January 13, 2006
City honors Angeleño diplomat
THE City Council of Angeles is set to pass a resolution commending journalist and former Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Consular Officer for Central Luzon Elmer Cato for "his outstanding performance as a member of the Philippine delegation to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)."
Cato is now the third secretary and alternate representative of the Philippine Mission to the United Nations.
Vice Mayor Ricardo Zalamea said: "An Angeleño in the name of Elmer G. Cato, former journalist and regional consular officer of the DFA in Central Luzon was appointed as third secretary at the Philippine Mission to the United Nations in New York and given the rare distinction of being a member of the Philippine Delegation to the Security Council as alternate representative."
Zalamea said Cato's participation as alternate representative and press officer during the two-year membership of the Philippines in the UNSC and as Philippine delegate to the fourth committee of the United Nations General Assembly has brought pride and honor not only to Angeles City, but the Philippines.
He said Cato, as alternate representative, was instrumental to the series of diplomatic coups scored by the Philippine Mission to United Nations, under the leadership of Ambassador Lauro L. Baja Jr., permanent representative. These include President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's presiding over a historic UNSC summit meeting in September 2005.
The summit was attended by leaders of 15-member countries including Presidents George Bush of the US, Tony Blair of the United Kingdom; Jacques Chirac of France; Vladimir Putin of Russia; and Hu Jintao of China.
The event made President Arroyo the first Asian leader and the first woman head of state to chair what is only the third UNSC Summit in the history of the United Nations.
As Philippine Delegate to the fourth committee, Cato was overseer of the expanded Philippine participation in UN peacekeeping operations that made the Philippines as the 25th largest troop contributing country with more than 500 military and police personnel deployed to seven UN missions in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.
"These above-mentioned feats of our fellow Angeleño and former comrade in journalism, among his other tasks and duties, are worthy not only of emulation but also of recognition," said the vice mayor. (DMF)
(January 13, 2006 issue)
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