The Policy and Resources president will be accompanied by P & R chief executive Bill Ogley, Education, Sport and Culture director Tom McKeon and States IT director Steven Chiang.
The summit is being held in St Fagans, Wales, on the theme of ‘indigenous, minority and lesser used languages’.The meeting is the fifth since the council was established in 1998, and it is being held at the Museum of Welsh Life.Senator Walker said that although the subject might not seem a pressing one, the council meeting gave him and senior civil servants the opportunity to meet counterparts from other jurisdictions.He added that he would have the opportunity to give part of a speech in Jèrriais for the first time at the council meeting because of the theme of the conference.
‘There has been a tremendous surge in interest in learning Jèrriais among schools and more mature people, so the conference comes at an opportune time,’ said Senator Walker.’As with all these conferences, potentially the real value is in discussions on the margins over dinner or lunch or whatever.
Clearly, if I get the opportunity to reaffirm messages from Pierre Horsfall to Tony Blair at the meeting in Jersey last year then I shall do so.’
