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11th April 2012 London, UK
Turkey and the UK – prosperity, security and stability
Last Wednesday, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee published its report into UK-Turkey relations and Turkey’s regional role. Select Committee reports are very important for the Government and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as they provide external scrutiny by parliamentarians that allows us to identify whether or not our policy is working and highlight opportunities for […]
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11th April 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
Doing business in Namibia
I launched a new business guide funded by the British High Commission called Doing Business in Namibia yesterday at the latest lunch meeting of the British Business Group (BBG) in Windhoek. The launch was attended by a number of local and visiting special guests as well as BBG members spanning the mining, marine and financial […]
11th April 2012 USA
The more things change
Like a lot of people interested in US politics and economics, I’ve been thinking quite a bit recently about the results of the last US census and the excellent analyses that demographers, political pundits and others have done on them. One thing that really strikes me is the projections of the US’s population out to […]
11th April 2012 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Learning and sharing how to be better
The Embassy team here in Guatemala is passionate about learning and developing,; their desire to innovate and to keep improving, both as individuals and together as a team, is as infectious as it is inspiring. They also have a lot of best practice to share with colleagues. So here are some examples of the team […]
10th April 2012 Lima, Peru
Visit to the BRE Innovation Park (Building Research Establishment Group)
By Juan Luis Reus, Deputy Director UKTI Peru The trip also included a visit to a very important place that is truly representative of the UK’s world leadership in sustainable construction. I am referring to the BRE Innovation Park, situated in the centre of the main BRE Watford site, 20 miles north west of Central […]
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10th April 2012 Budapest, Hungary
The power of verse
We hosted a very moving event last week. George and Mari Gömöri had assembled a collection of poetry about the holocaust, written by Hungarian Jews, non-Jews and Roma who had either experienced it personally or by those touched by it in other ways. They and their collaborators translated the verses into English and published the […]
6th April 2012 Washington DC, USA
A GREAT Good Friday
On our very first visit to DC, a chilly weekend last October, to scope out the city as our imminent home, we crawled jetlagged onto the metro at an unpleasant hour of the morning. It might have made sense to start house hunting, or to embark on some general meandering to get a sense of […]
5th April 2012 Washington DC, USA
A visit to the other windy city
And so I am just back from very sunny Boston. It was a day spent being grateful to people for tactfully ignoring my black eyes. It was also a day spent envying my partner, Layla, for having spent a summer working at Harvard when she was a medical student. Even in my very brief visit, […]
5th April 2012 Nairobi, Kenya
We stand with those building a peaceful and better Somalia
Yesterday’s horrific bomb attack in Mogadishu has served as yet another reminder of Al Shabaab’s cruel and twisted ideology. The day was meant to be one of celebration – marking the first anniversary of the launch of Somali National Television at the newly re-opened National Theatre. Yet it is to be remembered now for the […]
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5th April 2012
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Ukraine: a land of opportunity?
Will Ukraine seize the once-in-a-generation opportunity of Euro 2012 to showcase its European credentials? How about the October parliamentary elections – a litmus test for democracy in Ukraine? These questions are the subject of a powerful article by the British Minister for Europe, David Lidington, in the Ukrainian newspaper “Den” on 5 April.