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Promoting Glasgow 2014 at Westminster
25/04/2006
Scotland's Sports Minister Patricia Ferguson will travel to London today to present details of Scotland's 2014 Commonwealth Games bid to Scottish MPs and Lords.
She will highlight the potential benefits of a successful Scottish bid and urge Scottish members to take every opportunity to promote Scotland as the ideal location to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Ahead of this evening's reception at Dover House, Whitehall, Ms Ferguson said:
"Scotland's MPs and Lords are ideally placed to help us tell the rest of the world that Scotland is the best venue for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. That's why I've come to London - to tell them what we want to achieve and how they can help.
"A successful bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games would showcase Scotland to a worldwide audience and as the bid gathers pace it is vital that as many people as possible promote Scotland whenever they get the chance."
The Commonwealth Games Federation will announce the name of the successful host city in Sri Lanka in October 2007.