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14th January 2021 Geneva, Switzerland

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by Aidan Liddle

UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament

Disarmament in 2021

For the last couple of Januaries I’ve used this blog to look ahead to the year to come in the Geneva disarmament world. After 2020, I hesitate to be definite in predicting anything… The pandemic is far from over. For at least the first part of 2021, it’ll still be impossible to hold large-scale in-person […]

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24th August 2020 London, United Kingdom

Carole Mundell

by Professor Carole Mundell

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chief Scientific Adviser

Scientists from the first UK lab to work on live COVID-19: ‘We knew this virus was going to be different’

Over the past few months, my work has been dominated by the UK’s response to COVID-19, and how we can tackle this pandemic together internationally. I and my colleagues have been in touch with UK universities up and down the country, who are working tirelessly on researching COVID-19. We’ve heard from Andrew Davidson and David […]

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3rd July 2020 Dublin, Ireland

Robin Barnett

by Robin Barnett

Former Ambassador to Ireland, Dublin

Guest blog on UK-Ireland connections from Catherine Page, a deputy to Ambassador Robin Barnett

By endurance we conquer – what Shackleton can teach us today We have all had to find sources of inspiration to help us in the last few months. Mine came on one of many local lockdown walks in Dublin, when I passed a house with a plaque to “the Antarctic Explorer and Leader of Men”, […]

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8th May 2020 India

Nick Low, British Deputy High Commissioner to Kolkata

by Nick Low

British Deputy High Commissioner to Kolkata

Manipur to London: One Brit’s epic 8,000-mile journey from India

Whether at home or overseas, each of us will have our own memories of the COVID-19 pandemic – both personal and professional. In India, we’ll recall the fateful 24 hours in late March when FCO advised all British tourists and short-stay travellers abroad to return to the UK and the Government of India imposed what […]

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22nd April 2020 Dublin, Ireland

Robin Barnett

by Robin Barnett

Former Ambassador to Ireland, Dublin

Living in Lockdown

I wanted to reflect on the Coronavirus crisis, the tragic loss of so many lives around the world and on actions that need to be taken to defeat the virus. The enormity of what is happening is incredibly difficult to come to terms with. Just like everybody else, I have never known anything like this […]

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