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Alfred Edward, ex-chief of protocol, Dies

New York - Alfred Edward, a former civil servant and Chief of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, died after a brief illness in New York last week.

Edward, 78, was a former Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Liberia and Sierra Leone and Special Adviser to the UNDP's Assistant Administrator for the Regional Bureau for Africa in New York.

Since 1985, he has been an adviser and later a delegate to the Holy See at United Nations. And in September 1992, Pope, John Paul II conferred on him the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great - one of the Highest civilian Papal Honours.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Edward held several key government posts, including Assistant Controller of Exchange, Assistant Director of the Department of Land Development and Assistant Controller of Establishment in the General Treasury.

In 1962, he was Deputy Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) to the United Nations, a delegate to the 15th and 16th sessions of the General Assembly and vice-chairman of the UN's Fifth Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Matters.

He is survived by his wife Nalini and his children Radhika Edwards Brown, Dr. Marini Edwards and Dr. Niloo Edwards. One of his sons Raji Edwards passed away last year.

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