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Papua New Guinea

Author · Papua New Guinea

Vincent Eri

Died in 1993

Vincent Serei Eri was born on 12 September 1936 at Moveave, in Gulf Province, in Papua. Educated in mission schools, he taught in village schools, then in 1970 took a degree at the University of Papua New Guinea. A senior civil servant, he was consul general in Sydney and high commissioner in Canberra from 1976 to 1979, then in 1990 became governor-general and was knighted. He left this office in 1991 and died in Port Moresby on 25 May 1993.

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