Six A Level students will travel with the Government to the meeting of the United Nations 4^th Committee in New York next month, during which Gibraltar is a topic of discussion.

The decision follows a political commitment in the GSLP/ Liberals’ manifesto spelling out the ‘policy commitment of the Government to inform young people from the comprehensive schools as to what happens at the United Nations and the importance to Gibraltar of the deliberations of this international organisation’. This has been expanded to include the College of Further Education.

Students include Thomas Ramagge and Roger Cabral of the Gibraltar College, Ryan Robba and Thomas Blagden of Bayside Comprehensive School and Aysha Panter and Cristina Gonzalez of Westside Comprehensive.

The students were selected through an essay competition where they were asked to write 500 words on the subject of "The United Nations Committee of 24 and the importance of Gibraltar's participation in it." There were a total of 32 Sixth-Formers who entered the competition. The winning essays were very well researched and, in a few cases, very passionate.