Tag: Commonwealth & Development Office

25th July 2024 Geneva, Switzerland

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by Bob Last

Head, UK Mission Political and Human Rights Team

Wearing Thin

Among my blessings in life is having an Irish mother-in law and I’m just back from a post-Council trip where my wife did some digging into her family history.  A good number of her relatives were refugees fleeing persecution in both Eastern and Central Europe from the late 19th Century.  Ireland was where they were […]

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16th December 2020 Skopje, North Macedonia

Arijeta Hadzi-Hamza Ismaili

Arijeta Hadzi-Hamza Ismaili

Executive Assistant to Her Majesty’s Ambassador and Deputy Head of Mission

20 GREAT years working for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Two decades! I cannot believe it, but the photos I am looking at now prove that I ran a marathon at the British Embassy and I am celebrating with a cup of English tea my 20th anniversary. I opened my box of memories and I found so many things that brought me back into the […]

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