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25th February 2011
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Engaging on the Games
Earlier this week I sat with the UK Sports Minister and leading members of the Hungarian Olympics and Paralympics Committees. Hugh Robertson was visiting to attend the Sports Ministerial Informal meeting at Gödöllő and at the end of his programme made time to meet our partners and ask what we could do to help them […]
25th February 2011
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Culture, diversity and art
What do an artist from Afghanistan and a Ukrainian dancer have in common? The answer is that both are big fans of Ukraine who are enriching the country’s cultural life. I’m delivering a short speech at an event at the M17 Cultural Centre in Kyiv organised by the International Organisation for Migration on a cold […]
23rd February 2011 Geneva, Switzerland
Empty Sausages and Children’s Menus
I’m not sure how it started, but there’s a growing trend in UN human rights meetings these days to convey displeasure through culinary metaphor. The German Ambassador did this to great effect when he revealed his reaction to the latest set of proposals on the Human Rights Council Review, which is finally approaching a close […]
23rd February 2011 Ottawa, Canada
Off on some Scientific Adventures!
So as some of you may have noticed, I’ve been unfortunately delinquent in my blog postings this month, due in part to the fact that I have been kept quite busy here on the ground. Not to worry, I have a few tidbits that will be finding their way to this site in the near […]
21st February 2011
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Fair gold
On 14 February, Valentine’s Day, there was the launch in London of the very first Fairmined and Fairtrade gold ingot from artisanal and small-scale mining. This was mined at the Cooperativa Minera Cotapata in the Nor Yungas area of La Paz. To receive this certification, the mine had to comply with a number of conditions. […]
18th February 2011
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MI6, Art and Freedoms
Back in Kyiv after a holiday in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho and a short working visit to London, I am intrigued to see advertised on the Foreign Office website an exhibition by British artist James Hart Dyke entitled “A Year with MI6”. To spend a year working with the Secret Intelligence Service and then […]
18th February 2011 Chevening, UK
Peru to Dundee, Chevening scholar Graciela Arrieta joins the Conversation
Mi nombre es Graciela Arrieta Guevara, 28 años, abogada. Desde enero de este año resido en la ciudad de Dundee, Escocia, donde estudio una Maestría en Derecho Minero y Política en el Centro de Legislación y Política de Energía, Petróleo y Minería (Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy – CEPMLP) de la […]
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16th February 2011
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The Britain Brand
Last night the Embassy was full of tour operators, agencies and attraction owners from Hungary and the UK, but also from Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia and Slovakia. They had spent the day in a seminar and tailored meetings organised by Visit Britain – the organisation that markets Britain overseas and develops the […]
11th February 2011 New York, USA
Treading the boards off Broadway
Guest Blog: Peter Tear, MBE Peter Tear, Executive Producer at the New York Theatre, 59E59, was awarded an MBE in 2010 for services to US and UK cultural relations in bringing the best of small British theatre productions to New York City – a unique niche that is not duplicated anywhere else in the United […]
11th February 2011
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The green race
Presidency work at the British Embassy in Budapest is not confined to formal Presidency calendar events. We are also assisting with the intensive bilateral engagement of UK Ministers and senior officials with their Hungarian counterparts. Thanks to the heightened UK interest in all things Hungarian these days, these exchanges often go beyond immediate EU policy […]