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23rd January 2013
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Vibrant Gujarat – attracting business from India and beyond
The State of Gujarat, an hour’s flight north of Mumbai, can claim many important contributions to India. It was the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, another key leader of the independence movement and India’s first Home Minister, and Jamsetji Tata, the founder of the massive eponymous conglomerate, hails from Navsari in Gujarat. Gujarat […]
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22nd January 2013 Washington DC, USA
An Inauguration to Remember
Inauguration Day is a four-yearly highlight of the Washington calendar – and indeed, the calendar of most US citizens. It is the day when the newly elected president is sworn in for the next four years. Full of pomp and circumstance, bugles, marching bands, songs, prayers, and lots of US flags, “What are you doing […]
22nd January 2013 Yerevan, Armenia
It’s time to reflect on the achievements and look forward to coming opportunities
Welcome to 2013! Over the past couple of weeks, British Ambassadors all around the world have been writing their Annual Review of 2012 for colleagues in London. It’s a good time to reflect on the achievements we are most proud of – and the challenges and opportunities for the coming year. For us in Yerevan, […]
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22nd January 2013 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
New Year, New Skills
The following is a blog by Farhod Nabiyulloev, Press and Public Affairs Officer As part of the first week back at work in the New Year, I and some of my colleagues at the Embassy took part in several training sessions, organised by the Foreign Office’s Regional Training Centre in Dubai. We held our sessions […]
22nd January 2013
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Foreign and Defence Secretaries attend high level AUKMIN meeting in Perth
Foreign Secretary William Hague, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond and a team of senior officials and military were in Perth for the annual Australia-UK Ministerial meeting, AUKMIN, last week. They had wide-ranging discussions, including Asia, Indian Ocean and Defence reform, as well as talking about the UN Security Council, which Australia has just joined for the […]
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21st January 2013
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Turkey and the EU: Impressions from Eastern Anatolia
A guest blog by Peter Spoor, Head Press and Projects Team at the British Embassy in Ankara, Turkey My first impression on exiting the airport departure lounge is intense cold. I’m in Erzurum, where winter temperatures can drop below minus 25 degrees. I’m in town with colleagues from the Turkish EU Ministry to make the […]
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21st January 2013
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Busy January…
The first weeks of 2013 were some of the busiest ever for our Embassy. Here are just a few of the highlights, which show the wide variety of our work. G8 1st January marked the start of the UK G8 Presidency, which I blogged about last week. We created a twitter account @G8 for anyone […]
19th January 2013
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On events in Algeria
The Foreign Office’s Minister Alistair Burt called Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean earlier this evening to express the British Government’s sincere condolences on the death of a Romanian citizen who was confirmed among the casualties of the terrorist attack in Algeria. I would like to add my own heartfelt condolences to his family and to […]
18th January 2013
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How to make stuff with less energy – or, how Turkey can import less gas
This January figures were published showing that Turkish gas imports had hit an all-time high. So the timing of the UK-Turkey Knowledge Partnership Conference at the British Consulate General in Istanbul on 17 January to examine Energy and Resource Efficiency in Manufacturing could not have been better. Turkey is an increasingly important research and manufacturing […]
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18th January 2013 New Delhi, India
Understanding climate change: working together
Last week I visited the Indian Institute for Science where a distinguished delegation of academics from Imperial College London were holding a joint workshop organised by the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial and the Divecha Centre for Climate Change at IISc Bangalore. Aside from a fabulous lunch up in the trees of IISc’s […]
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