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3rd February 2015
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Australia UK Ministerial meeting (AUKMIN) in Sydney
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon have just been in Sydney for the 7th annual AUKMIN talks with their opposite numbers Julie Bishop and Kevin Andrews on 2 February. This is a big event, with participants also including the Chiefs of Defence and senior officials from each country. PM Tony Abbott hosted […]
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3rd February 2015 Athens, Greece
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
It’s my pleasure to welcome as guests to this blog, Robert W. Peck, Ambassador of Canada (the last country chairing IHRA), and Eszter Sandorfi, Ambassador of Hungary (the next chair). They both share their thoughts on what the International Holocaust Remembrance Day means for them personally. I’m grateful to them for contributing in this way. […]
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3rd February 2015
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Civil Nuclear Showcase
The Central European Network is a grouping of nine British Embassies stretching from Poland to Bulgaria, representing an area we describe as ‘High Growth Europe’. Each Ambassador in the network is charged with promoting one of our priority sectors for developing British trade, as part of UK Trade and Investment’s (UKTI) Export 2020 initiative. I […]
3rd February 2015 Dublin, Ireland
A small ceremony to present Professor Limon with the badge of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Last September, Her Majesty The Queen appointed Professor Jerzy Limon to be an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his valuable services to British-Polish cultural relations. On 29 January, I had the pleasure and honour to present Professor Limon with the badge of the Order at a […]
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3rd February 2015
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Helping Pope Francis
The new Holy See Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, is well-named. When earlier this week Msgr. Gallagher met the ambassadors accredited to the Holy See, the Deputy Secretary, the Maltese Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, reminded us that the name Gallagher is the anglicisation of the Irish surname Ó Gallchobhair, meaning “foreign help” or […]
2nd February 2015 Washington DC, USA
Falklands Symposium: Q&A with Dr Paul Mayewski (USA)
Following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, the first ever Pan–American Science Delegation to the Falkland Islands is participating in a week-long mission to showcase the beauty of the UK South Atlantic Overseas Territories and immense opportunities for scientific research and collaboration in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Scientists from the US, Canada, Chile, […]
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2nd February 2015 USA
Tackling Ebola: Q & A with Dr Schieffelin, Tulane University
The UK and US have been leading a coordinated international response to the Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the epicentre of the crisis. According to the WHO over 7900 have died out of 20 000 cases of confirmed, probable and suspected cases of the disease. Through collaboration with UK physicians and scientists, Dr Schieffelin […]
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2nd February 2015 London, UK
To find out about things
Ten years ago, the UN General Assembly designated 27 January the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Why? The Nazis’ murder of six million Jews, along with several million other concentration camps victims, is not the only example of humanity’s capacity for brutality on a huge scale. Indeed, sadly, […]
2nd February 2015 Bangalore, India
Business models and routes to market
Guest blog by Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam is the Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship Learning, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge The Indian biotech sector is set to grow. This has been clearly stated by the Dept. of Biotechnology and numerous agencies. Resources are being allocated for this purpose and the evidence of this can be seen when […]
2nd February 2015
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British tourists or travellers – come to Belarus!
One of the great attractions of becoming a diplomat is the opportunity to live in different places abroad. Lots of people travel abroad but, unlike diplomats, they tend only to stay for a short period. I notice there is a lot of argument in cyberspace about the differences between “a tourist” and “a traveller”: I […]
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