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27th June 2013 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

British companies display innovative security technology in Paris

Public security exhibition, 27 June 2013

We are here in the Embassy today for a special event where we have representatives of the British security industry, presenting their products to French clients and looking to develop partnerships.  This is a growing industry,  which is producing products intended to help keep people safe, to help fight crime and terrorism, and it’s an […]

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17th May 2013 Bangalore, India

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by Sunil Kumar

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

Sky’s the limit in Indo-UK aerospace technology

A couple of weeks ago I was involved in an event bringing together aerospace researchers and companies from the UK and India together for three days to discuss opportunities for working together. We asked Venkatesh Janakiram, Senior Trade & Investment Adviser in Aerospace at the British Deputy High Commission, to write about the event… One hundred […]

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20th March 2013 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

Economic and high-tech cooperation

Sir Peter Ricketts at the Airbus plant in Nantes, March 2013

The big theme for me this week has been the economic and high-tech co-operation between Britain and France.  In terms of economies, we had Boris Johnson, the Major of London, in Paris last week.  He  gave a number of media interviews but also a big speech to businessmen here, in which his main theme is […]

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5th July 2012 New York, USA

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by Danny Lopez

British Consul-General, New York

Airbus Crosses the Atlantic

On Monday, I had the fantastic experience of landing an Airbus 320 in London.  Well, simulating one at least, from inside a Thales full-flight simulator of an A320 at Airbus’ Miami training centre.  The flight might have been virtual, but the sweat on my brow was real, and I was definitely at my most focused. […]

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