RTRS - Australian MP John Langmore formally resigns .
CANBERRA 1996-12-06
Australian parliamentarian John Langmore has formally resigned from his lower house seat , the office of House of Representatives speaker Bob Halverson said on Friday .
" Halverson announced that he had received today from Mr John Vance Langmore , a letter resigning his place as member of the House of Representatives for the electoral division of Fraser in the Australian Capital Territory , " his office said in a statement .
Halverson was considering possible dates for the by-election , his office said .
Langmore , 57 , announced in November that he intended to resign from parliament to take up a position as Australia 's senior representative at the United Nations headquarters in New York .
He played an active role at the U.N. social development conference in Copenhagen last year and has co-authored articles with U.N. development programme officer Inge Kaul .
Langmore , a persistent campaigner for interventionist economic policy , has been Labor member for Fraser since 1984 .
He was senior private secretary to the employment and industrial relations minister from 1983 to 1984 and was economic advisor to then treasurer Paul Keating in 1983 .
His previous posts include assistant director of the national planning office of Papua New Guinea from 1969 to 1973 .
-- Canberra Bureau 61-6 273-2730