Diplomatic Visitors from Uruguay

31 August 2010

Alvaro Barba, Consul General of Uruguay in Sydney, Alberto Fajardo, (left) Ambassador of Uruguay to Australia, Stepan Kerkyasharian, Chair, CRC

The Ambassador of Uruguay in Australia, Alberto Fajardo, and the Consul General of Uruguay in Sydney, Alvaro Barba, visited the Commission to hold talks with the Chair, Stepan Kerkyasharian.

Discussion ranged over community issues, community harmony and discrimination issues.

Ambassador Fajardo expressed a special interest in the maintenance of the Spanish language in the third generation of immigrants from his country and other Spanish speaking nations and the formal teaching of Spanish to other Australian children as a major world language.