Sentences with phrase «british foreign office»

We keep up - to - date with the latest travel advisories to Vietnam and follow advice as set out by the British Foreign Office.

We keep up - to - date with the latest travel advisories to Russia, Mongolia and China and follow advice as set out by the British Foreign Office.

We closely monitor current travel guidance for Mozambique and follow advice as set out by the British Foreign Office.

He traveled extensively but never settled down until 1939, when he became an employee of the British Foreign Office sent to Russia under cover as a reporter for The Times.

The March 31 briefing, «The Business Case for Carbon Capture and Sequestration,» was sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in partnership with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the British Foreign Office, and the Mission of the United States of America to the European Union.

In May 2009, an official with the British Foreign Office — Colin Roberts, who is responsible for overseas territories — briefed U.S. diplomatic staff about government plans to create a marine reserve in the archipelago, which is within the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The British Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said: «We condemn the recent decisions taken by the Israeli authorities to advance plans for 1096 settlement units in the West Bank, and to approve the construction of 63 new units in East Jerusalem.

The British Foreign Office later issued a tougher message calling for restraint on all sides.

The British Foreign Office was criticised for its advice on Tunisia in the wake of the Sousse attacks.

George Papadopoulos had three separate meetings with British Foreign Office officials in September 2016, we can reveal for the first time.

My palms sweated as I remembered why it was that Yemen, and in particular this remote eastern wilderness, featured as one of only three places on Earth that the British Foreign Office advised absolutely no travel.

was the response of the British foreign office when an intermediary brought an offer from Eichmann to exchange the lives of a million Jews for some trucks and materiel.)

It's hard to keep track of the timeline of events these days, but it was just last week that the British foreign office was caught deleting a tweet in which it had falsely claimed it confirmed the nerve agent used in the Skripal poisoning had been produced in Russia.

A spokeswoman for the British Foreign Office did not say how many British diplomats would be affected, but said Russia's response was regrettable and Moscow was in flagrant breach of international law over the killing of the former spy.

Not exact matches

The Foreign Office and the Home Office (previously run by a cautious Theresa May) had sent warnings about cyber espionage and the lack of reciprocity for British companies.

Meanwhile the UK Foreign Office said it was standing by to provide assistance but was not aware of any British citizens involved as yet.

One reason was notdissimilar to the suspicions of the Foreign Office traditionally voiced in British political circles: that it is run by people whose instinct is to «go native».

A Foreign Office spokesperson told Premier in a statement: «We are supporting the families of four British people who were abducted on 13 October in Nigeria, one of whom was tragically killed.

The Foreign Office is urgently looking into reports that a soldier who may have been kidnapped by Hamas is British - Israeli.

Here he describes his equally stormy involvement as deputy head of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) department in the arms for Sierra Leone affair, when a British company supplied weapons to that country's President in contravention of an embargo; his role as single - handed saviour of Ghanaian democracy when deputy high commissioner in Accra, and his participation in peace negotiations in Togo to end Sierra Leone's civil war.

George W Bush, who provided endless material, either through the depictions of him as thick, or his British - backed foreign intervention in Iraq has left office.

But seeing as I'm here, I may as well address the football issue... «Many people may not know that looking after British nationals abroad is one of the main responsibilities of the Foreign Office.»

«' arbitrarily» overturning the status of the building where Mr Assange has taken shelter to avoid extradition, would make life «impossible» for British diplomats overseas... «I think the Foreign Office have slightly overreached themselves here, for both practical and legal reasons.»

Next the Foreign Office's lawyers admitted that the three claimants were tortured by the British colonial authorities, but argued that too much time had passed to enable a fair trial.

Foreign Office and development ministers will today outline a new rulebook guiding British officials on how to support and monitor elections overseas.

«The review is primarily a British exercise about British national interests,» a Foreign Office official said.

Lord Malloch Brown, the Foreign Office minister who is stepping down this week, said the latest offensive in the war zone had not been sufficiently explained to the British people.

EU commissioners and senior MEPs were quite clear: some had seen excerpts of the speech (broadcast at the same time as the Commission's weekly meeting) or read it; some had been briefed in advance by the British ambassador in the usual Foreign Office softening - up process.

Aside from brilliantly capturing the empathy the British people felt for the victims of 9/11 and their families, Tony Blair's speech is primarily remembered as laying the ground for the aggressively interventionist foreign policy of his second term in office.

Ms Davidson, meanwhile, put out a statement yesterday saying there should be no state visit as long as British nationals were caught up in the refugee ban — a condition that may have been met by the clarification obtained by the Foreign Office last night.

Across Whitehall from the Foreign Office, MPs are returning to parliament amid signs of a softening mood towards British involvement in western intervention.

Claims by British Muslim groups that Britain's foreign policy is responsible for the current critical terror alert have been rejected by Foreign Office minister Kim Hforeign policy is responsible for the current critical terror alert have been rejected by Foreign Office minister Kim HForeign Office minister Kim Howells.

The Foreign Office has rejected suggestions that less than 40 votes in Afghanistan's elections equated to one British life.

Today Mr Miliband said the Foreign Office had been receiving «very serious reports of the intimidation and harassment of British Council officials».

British nationals requiring assistance or further advice can call the Foreign Office on numbers published on our website.

Both sides of the Brexit debate have been scrambling to decode remarks made by Prince William during a speech to British diplomats at the foreign office in London.

British nationals in the unstable Middle Eastern state should leave immediately, the Foreign Office has said.

Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham presented the awards in his capacity as the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Minister with responsibility for counter-piracy issues and on behalf of the British Government.

2.30 pm Oral Questions Ensuring effective implementation of the stalking offences under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 - Lord Kennedy of Southwark Reducing the geographic disparity in Gross Value Added per head within the UK - Lord Wigley British Academy's report «Languages: the State of the Nation» concluding that the UK will be unable to meet its aspirations for growth and global influence unless action is taken to remedy the deficit in foreign language skills - Baroness Coussins Office of Fair Trading's report on payday loans - Lord Mitchell Legislation Growth and Infrastructure Bill - Report stage (Day 2)- Baroness Hanham Orders and Regulations Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (Amendment) Order 2013 and Motion to Regret - Viscount Younger of Leckie / Lord Young of Norwood Green

The Foreign Office is unlikely to accept the proposal for a trial in Russia on the grounds that the British government does not respect the independence of the Russian judicial system, however.

The British government has not yet received a formal offer for a trial, a senior Foreign Office official told politics.co.uk earlier.

Efforts to woo Britain's new foreign secretary will also include an offer to lift restrictions on the number of British Council offices in Russia imposed in the wake of the Litvinenko affair.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: «Sir Geoffrey stressed that the British government was horrified by the continuing unacceptable violence in Homs, which has been under attack for 19 days.

The Foreign Office of the UK has announced the appointment of Iain Walker as Her Majesty's British High Commissioner to Ghana.

Warsi, as senior foreign office minister, was responsible for British support for international human rights law and in her resignation letter bemoaned the departure in the previous reshuffle of Kenneth Clarke, and the former attorney general Dominic Grieve.

The services offered by UK Trade & Investment bring together a network of business sector specialists and support teams in British embassies and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) posts all around the world, as well as key experts in government departments across the UK.

While such a move would require a protracted legal process, complete with appeals and checks against international law, the letter sparked outrage at British plans to «storm» the embassy, prompting many observers to brand it an own goal by the Foreign Office.

For some in our political class foreign policy is a sacred cow, but a Home Office working group entitled Tackling Extremism formed after 7/7 clearly suggested that British foreign policy — especially in the Middle East — can not be left unconsidered as a factor in the motivations of criminal radical extremists.

The ambassador, Dr Sami Khiami, was told by the Foreign Office that intimidation and harassment would not be tolerated by the British government.

A Trump aide who has admitted lying to the FBI about his Russian links met a Foreign Office minister and discussed Brexit with a team leader of the British Embassy in Washington, just weeks before the US presidential election.