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25th January 2013 London, UK
Managing the Foreign Office's overseas digital presence
As organisations have increased their use of digital media in recent years they have had to find ways to manage those channels, finding the right balance between making best use of digital to communicate and engage…
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25th January 2013 Cape Town, South Africa
WWF secondment helping develop new policy area
Guest Blog from Suzanne Carter, Climate Change Officer Many UK staff take a secondment into another government department over the course of their careers as civil servants but is there a way to replicate this exposure (on a smaller scale) for Locally Engaged Staff? My line manger thought it was at least worth a try! […]
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25th January 2013 Windhoek, Namibia
British support to Namibian campaign to tackle ‘baby-dumping’
A front page story of a tragic case of “baby-dumping” – the abandonment of newborn babies often in isolated locations – marked a sad start to the new year in Namibia. Whilst reporting of such heart-breaking cases appears to be on the increase in local papers, no one can provide precise figures as neither infanticide […]
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25th January 2013 New Delhi, India
Healthy Indo-UK research relationship!
Last week was Health Week for the British Deputy High Commission in Bangalore, with four separate delegations in Bangalore, all with a health interest. First we had Anna Soubry MP, the UK Minister for Public Health. She was in India (visiting Delhi, Trivandrum, Bangalore and Chennai) to explore opportunities for increased collaboration on primary healthcare […]
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25th January 2013 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Scourge of Terrorism Returns…
For one Malaysian family, 2013 has started in the worst possible way. Mr Chong Ngen Chung and many others, including from the UK, have become the latest victims in what our Prime Minister has rightly described as a ‘…generational struggle against an ideology which is an extreme distortion of the Islamic faith, and which holds […]
24th January 2013 Yerevan, Armenia
To the Haggis
On Saturday the Armenian British Business Chamber (ABBC) is holding the annual Burns Supper in Yerevan, a tradition now for many years (please see Burns Supper – there are still a few tickets available!). We are looking forward to this tremendously and are very grateful to the ABBC for its hard work in organising it […]
24th January 2013 Paris, France
The future of the EU and the UK’s relationship with it
There is a lot happening in the world, and I wanted to talk today a bit about our support to France on Mali, and then a bit about Britain and Europe. Britain has fully supported the French military operation in Mali from the start. We entirely share France’s analysis that we can not allow Mali […]
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24th January 2013
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
Training Diplomats to Understand Religion
Earlier this week, I was in London to attend and address the first ever course run by the Foreign Office on religion and foreign policy. The particular focus was on the issue of freedom of religion or belief, but the wider goal of the course is to help British diplomats understand better the importance of […]
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24th January 2013 Dublin, Ireland
PM Cameron’s speech on Britain and the EU
You will of course be aware that David Cameron, our Prime Minister, delivered a major speech on Europe in London on 23 January. It has received a lot of coverage in the Polish media and Foreign Minister Sikorski commented on it on 24 January. The speech is a very clear commitment to keeping the UK […]
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24th January 2013 Dublin, Ireland
Przemówienie premiera Camerona o Wielkiej Brytanii i Unii Europejskiej
Na pewno są Państwo świadomi, że nasz premier David Cameron wygłosił 23 stycznia w Londynie ważne przemówienie na temat Europy. Polskie media poświęciły temu przemówieniu dużo uwagi, a 24 stycznia przemówienie skomentował minister spraw zagranicznych Radosław Sikorski. Przemówienie to w bardzo jasny sposób mówi o przywiązaniu do koncepcji pozostania Wielkiej Brytanii w Unii Europejskiej, w […]
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