27th October 2018
Skopje, North Macedonia
I was brought up in multi-cultural multi-ethnic multi-religious Manchester in the north of England. To me this meant eating different food and celebrating festivals ranging from fireworks at Divali to lighting Chanuckah candles. For my family our beliefs were very important to us but so was respect for other people’s. Article 18 of the Universal […]
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25th October 2018
Skopje, North Macedonia
This is my first blog as deputy ambassador at the British Embassy here in Skopje, and I want to use it to highlight one of the favourite parts of my job as a British diplomat: the opportunities the British government offer to fund postgraduate study at a UK university. For the past 25 years the UK […]
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14th October 2018
Skopje, North Macedonia
From 11th October to 15th October the British Ambassador’s husband Tom is driving his 1974 Austin 1800 from Birmingham, where the car was made, to Skopje where it will live for the next 4 years. He is being supported by his father Rob who worked at the factory and helped to build the car. For […]
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5th October 2018
Skopje, North Macedonia
If your travel in the southern part of Macedonia near Dojran these days you can enjoy the warm climate even in the autumn, the soft weather and the sun rays. Nothing reveals the scale of the battle here a century ago. But if you take a tour of Dojran or travel near Rabrovo you will […]
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25th August 2018
Skopje, North Macedonia
I am not sure whether Macedonia’s Head of Diplomatic Protocol has ever gone to meet a newly arriving Ambassador at the airport and been greeted first by two incredibly excited children who just had to show him all their toys, but he was so professional you would have thought it happens every time! The warmth […]
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3rd July 2018
Skopje, North Macedonia
On Wednesday I shall pack the car, drive up the road to Tabanovce and on out of Macedonia. The end of a posting prompts retrospective thoughts. And this time, leaving a country which has generated so much history in the last four years, is no different. It has been an extraordinary privilege to serve in […]
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19th March 2018
Skopje, North Macedonia
Goran Mihajlovski is one of the journalists in Macedonia that has followed closely the relations between the UK and Macedonia since their early days. As part of marking the 25 years of relationship we asked Goran to give us his experience of the early 1990s and the British-Macedonian links. Amb Garrett: How do you remember […]
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19th March 2018
Skopje, North Macedonia
Горан Михајловски е еден од неколкумина новинари кои одблиску ги покривале настаните во раните 1990-ти кога Британија и Македонија воспоставувале дипломатски односи. По повод 25 години билатерални односи Британија – Македонија го прашавме Горан да се потсети на тие денови. Амб Гарет: Какво ти е сеќавањето за воспоставувањето на билатералните односи меѓу Британија и Македонија? […]
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19th March 2018
Skopje, North Macedonia
Britania dhe Maqedonia kanë marrëdhënie diplomatike nga viti 1993. Me rastin e 25 vjetorit e pyetëm Goran Mihajlovskin për kujtimet e tij mbi fillimin e miqësisë britaniko-maqedonase. Ambasadori Garet: Ç’kujtime keni për vendosjen e marrëdhënieve dypalëshe mes Britanisë dhe Maqedonisë? Mihajlovski: Në dhjetor të vitit 1993 isha gazetar në rubrikën politike të gazetës “Veçer”. Por […]
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27th October 2017
Skopje, North Macedonia
In his BBC radio series “living with the gods”, the British historian Neil MacGregor looks back at religious items of the past. His story begins in a cave some 35 to 40 thousand years ago. In that cave a Stone Age man or woman sits with a woolly mammoth tusk in her hands. Her life and […]
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