" And he said, "Well, there are some parts of the Foreign Office that are different from other parts of the Foreign Office.
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" The UK Foreign Office called the attacks "completely unacceptable.
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Britain's Foreign Office said: "We don't comment on intelligence matters."
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A spokesman for the British Foreign Office declined to comment.
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He is ridiculed abroad and disliked in the Foreign Office.
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The British Foreign Office confirmed it had received the request.
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The Pentagon declined to comment, as did Britain's Foreign Office.
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Pakistan's foreign office spokesman could not be reached for comment.
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After the war, Sugihara was dismissed from the foreign office.
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As a Foreign Office minister, his portfolio includes climate change.
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Britain's Foreign Office had no immediate comment on the report.
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" A spokesperson for the German Foreign Office said: "The Federal Foreign Office and our Embassy in Tehran are in close contact with the relevant authorities to determine whether there were German citizens aboard the aircraft.
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Britain's Foreign Office did not respond to a request for comment.
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Britain's Foreign Office said it was unable to confirm the deaths.
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A British foreign office spokesman confirmed the office was providing assistance.
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The Foreign Office summoned Iran's Charge d'Affaires for an urgent meeting.
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The British Foreign Office said it was looking into the case.
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The UK Foreign Office said affected passengers should contact the airline.
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The Foreign Office butlers are expected to find their own housing.
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The British Foreign Office said she was not a British citizen.
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In a sense, they are different from the Foreign Office itself.
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Mr. Curiel emphasized that the Foreign Office judged the issue concluded.
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A spokeswoman for Britain's Foreign Office declined to comment on Uribe's tweet.
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This approach enjoys some support in Berlin, particularly in the foreign office.
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The British Foreign Office said it was "very concerned" at the reports.
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Britain's Foreign Office advised travelers to exercise caution following the August bombings.
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She had told her parents she was working for the Foreign Office.
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Both the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development looked away.
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The foreign office said the measures would be implemented by March 25.
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"We hope that India will reciprocate this," the foreign office spokesman said.
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A British foreign office spokeswoman declined to comment on the legal proceedings.
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Britain's Foreign Office confirmed Mr. Edalat's return in an email on Tuesday.
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"This leaflet is clearly inaccurate," a spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office said.
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The British Foreign Office did not immediately reply for a request for comment.
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A spokeswoman for Britain's Foreign Office declined to immediately comment on the report.
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The British consulate in Hong Kong referred Reuters to the Foreign Office statement.
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The British Foreign Office did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.
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Relations between the two, and with Mr Johnson's Foreign Office, can be strained.
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There was no immediate comment from Pakistan's interior ministry or its foreign office.
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"Iran has broken the terms of the JCPoA," a Foreign Office spokesman said.
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The Swiss foreign office said it took note of the decision with "regret".
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The Foreign Office said the restrictions go into effect immediately as of Sunday.
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Business Insider has asked for UK Foreign Office to confirm Zaghari-Ratcliffe's status.
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"She is in Pakistan," said Mohammad Faisal, the spokesman for Pakistan's foreign office.
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Google and the U.K.'s foreign office were not immediately available for comment.
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The Pakistani foreign office said a new date had not yet been decided.
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The Foreign Office declined to comment specifically on what happened on Monday night.
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If those efforts are unsuccessful, the Foreign Office will cover the costs itself.
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Britain's Foreign Office said it had no immediate comment on the Bellingcat report.
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" A spokesperson for the Foreign Office told Mashable they "don't comment on intelligence matters.
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UK FOREIGN OFFICE CONFIRMS AMBASSADOR TO IRAN SUMMONED OVER SEIZURE OF SUPERTANKER NEAR GIBRALTAR
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The UK Foreign Office told CNN it will not be commenting on Thae's defection.
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"A few have already jumped ship, to the Foreign Office, for example," says one.
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The Foreign Office told Mashable there was no update on the investigation Tuesday morning.
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Britain's Foreign Office said it is following up the allegations made in the statement.
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" Foreign Office chief Simon McDonald said he accepted Darroch's resignation with "deep personal regret.
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Mr. Fraser, the former Foreign Office official, thinks it will go to the wire.
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"Essential staff needed to continue critical work will remain," the British Foreign Office said.
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Britain's Foreign Office on Tuesday advised against "all but essential" travel to mainland China.
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Activists march from the Cypriot Embassy in London to the Foreign Office, Jan. 6.
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"You should follow local advice, including restrictions in selected areas," the Foreign Office said.
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The UK Foreign Office suggests that women consider postponing nonessential travel until after pregnancy.
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In all, the Foreign Office helped bring home 82 survivors over 2016 and 2017.
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Read here for the full text of the British Foreign Office report on Hong Kong.
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He has also held the posts of junior foreign office minister and Conservative Party chairman.
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Mr. Raab said that the Foreign Office was told of her departure the next day.
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" Germany's Federal Foreign Office said: "The Golan Heights is a Syrian territory occupied by Israel.
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" A Foreign Office spokeswoman said, "We do not comment on the papers of previous governments.
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They would not comment further, they said in a statement released by Britain's Foreign Office.
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The UK Foreign Office said it's aware of the video and is analyzing its content.
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"There should be an investigation into this," junior foreign office minister Alistair Burt told parliament.
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On Friday, the UK Foreign Office said four British citizens had been detained in Jiangsu.
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In Syria it has dozens of special forces, military advisers and some foreign office personnel.
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" U.K. Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said the agreement "contributes to peace in the region.
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The Foreign Office may try to maintain its input into the EU's foreign-policy discussions.
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In 1942, Mr. Giles went to work for the war office, then the foreign office.
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The British Foreign Office said in a statement that Johnson discussed the drought and security.
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Britain's Foreign Office (FCO) said on its website the main threat was from Islamic State.
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Pakistan's foreign office said it had twice summoned the Afghan Charge d'Affaires to "seek clarity".
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The British Foreign Office identified him as a dual citizen of Britain and South Africa.
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"If any foreign office imposes a travel warning, we won't fly there," Mr. Riecken said.
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According to Mr. Raab, the Foreign Office was informed of her exit the next day.
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The British Foreign Office and the Russian Foreign Ministry were not immediately available for comment.
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Bibi is legally free to leave the country, Pakistan's foreign office spokesman said earlier Thursday.
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The Foreign Office successfully fended off Mr. Davis and demanded to keep the Brussels job.
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The UK Foreign Office rejected the UN group's decision and said they will contest it.
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Helpfully, the German foreign office also provides a 10-point survival guide to the autobahn.
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Dominic Raab, who quit in protest over Theresa May's EU deal, heads to the foreign office.
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The Foreign Office said lawyers would meet in the next fortnight to discuss the issue further.
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But in a statement released through the UK Foreign Office, Julian's family said he had died.
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Neither the Foreign Office nor the White House could immediately be reached for comment on Tuesday.
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The British Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel to Kaduna state in northern Nigeria.
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Yesterday, the British Foreign Office announced there is high probability the IRGC is behind the attacks.
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The British Foreign Office said in November the government had decided against a resettlement in Chagos.
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" The German Foreign Office echoed the remarks, saying that Iran's action "exacerbates an already strained situation.
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On Thursday, Pakistan's Foreign Office said a new date should be decided "as early as possible".
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This morning the German Foreign Office tweeted: The #INF Treaty is vitally important for Europe's security.
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"The Belgian authorities are currently advising against travel to Brussels," the UK's foreign office said Tuesday.
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It is not believed that chlorine was used in the attack, according to the foreign office.
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"We strongly agree with the US assessment," the reporter tweeted, quoting a UK Foreign Office source.
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Britain's Foreign Office has previously expressed concern about the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.
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LONDON — The British Foreign Office is used to tackling matters of import on a global scale.
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"I feel that we perhaps need to go further," said Mark Field, the foreign office minister.
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The Foreign Office said the change came as countries around the world were closing their borders.
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Britain's Foreign Office (FCO) has said it is urgently seeking information from Iran about Edalat's arrest.
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" The British Foreign Office said it had received the request and would respond "in due course.
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In response, the Pakistan foreign office described Ghani's tweet as unwarranted interference in Pakistan's internal affairs.
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The British Foreign Office advises citizens against all travel to Iran, citing a risk of arrest.
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A spokeswoman for Germany's Foreign Office said Germany has suspended preferential visas for Cambodian government members.
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" The United Kingdom's Foreign Office also issued an advisory and cautioned "an attack is still possible.
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The UK Foreign Office on Friday advised citizens against traveling to Madrid and the surrounding regions.
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The British Foreign Office said future attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places visited by foreigners.
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A spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office said there was no policy of delaying visas for Russian diplomats.
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Its presence in Syria also includes dozens of special forces, military advisers and some foreign office personnel.
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Britain's Foreign Office said she had been offered assistance by Russia's embassy but had so far declined.
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Bagehot is correct: Britain needs a reinvigorated foreign policy led by a stronger Foreign Office (April 2400th).
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In a statement issued in response to these most recent leaks, Britain's Foreign Office defended their diplomat.
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"She would say she wanted to join the foreign office or the civil service," her father said.
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Former colonial ruler Britain summoned Sudan's ambassador to the Foreign Office on Thursday to express its concern.
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Press attention did, however, force the British Foreign Office to request a list of the group's members.
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Iran must immediately stop and reverse its activities, a spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office said on Sunday.
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Pakistan had similarly summoned the Afghan charge d'affaires in Islamabad on Monday, the Pakistani foreign office said.
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More surprisingly she gave the Foreign Office to Boris Johnson, a Brexiteer not noted for his diplomacy.
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"We needed someone who could feature on the BBC," Mike O'Brien, a Foreign Office minister, told me.
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"The Foreign Office is in regular contact with the Iranian government at all levels," Johnson told parliament.
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The German Foreign Office also urged travelers to restrict movements, avoid crowds and stay in secure accommodation.
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A British Foreign Office spokeswoman said the foreign secretary had raised Trew's deportation with his Egyptian counterpart.
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David Hale was summoned by the Pakistan foreign office on Monday to explain Trump's tweet, media said.
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A spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office could not be reached for comment out of normal business hours.
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Britain's Foreign Office confirmed the arrest of a Briton in Alexandria to Reuters, but did not elaborate.
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Ms. Patel held the meetings in Israel without telling the Foreign Office, a clear breach of protocol.
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"We have carefully adjusted our policy," said Niels Annen, the minister of state at the Foreign Office.
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Mr Smith presides over an operation as big as the foreign office of a medium-sized country.
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Such plans included: A spokesperson for the U.K. Foreign Office declined to comment when contacted by CNBC.
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What, for instance, is the deal with Harold (Alfred Molina), a Foreign Office official who lurks about?
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The UK's Foreign Office saying it is "considering the Saudi report" as it decides its next steps.
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She left Scotland Yard in 2014 after 31 years to become general secretary at the foreign office.
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"Today's announcement from Tehran is ... an unwelcome step," junior foreign office minister Mark Field told Britain's parliament.
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Speaking to diplomats and experts at the Foreign Office in London, Johnson will call for better engagement with Muslim populations worldwide and argue that blaming Western intervention for the rise of Islamist extremism plays into the jihadi narrative, according to a briefing note issued by the Foreign Office.
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The Metropolitan Police, who are investigating the poisoning, and the Foreign Office declined to comment on the report.
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Davis worked in government in Britain's foreign office from 1994 to 1997, with responsibility for negotiations with Europe.
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The British Foreign Office said British nationals were involved, but didn't say how many or in what capacity.
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Mark Field, the UK Foreign Office minister for Asia and the Pacific, also expressed disappointment at their imprisonment.
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The UK Foreign Office was initially not aware of any circumstances around them when contacted by BuzzFeed News.
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The British Foreign Office said it was "urgently looking into reports" about the detention of a UK national.
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" The UK Foreign Office — which is responsible for GCHQ — said that it "does not comment on intelligence matters.
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In April, the UK Foreign Office cautioned its LGBT over controversial legislation passed in North Carolina and Mississippi.
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Cutting the Foreign Office budget from £2bn ($2.6bn) this year to £1.2bn next is hardly going to help.
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The Pakistani Foreign Office and the Afghan embassy in Islamabad did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Lets hope Battersea Dog/Cats home intervention has knocked some sense into No10 & Foreign Office with this fighting !
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"As this is an ongoing investigation, we are unable to comment further," a British Foreign Office spokesman said.
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Britain's Foreign Office said Iran must abide by its pledge that the ship would not sail for Syria.
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The most majestic is the Foreign Office, completed in 113 and designed as "a kind of national palace".
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But until now, Britain's Foreign Office, which advises the monarchy on overseas visits, had advised against touring Israel.
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"It is important for Syrians and the international community that the truth comes out," the foreign office concluded.
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The British Foreign Office has not warned against travel to Germany, but said people needed to remain vigilant.
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But last week's attack that killed Mr. Sayed did not elicit a strong reaction from Pakistan's Foreign Office.
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In "Appeasement," Tim Bouverie notes that Rumbold's April 1933 dispatch caused a momentary stir in the Foreign Office.
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Peter Ricketts, formerly the head of Britain's Foreign Office, said he had awaked to the news of Mrs.
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In the 1940s and '50s, there were anxieties in both Britain's Foreign Office and Hong Kong's local administration.
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The UK embassy in Beijing and the UK Foreign Office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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The UK embassy in Beijing and the UK Foreign Office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Bilateral trade between both economies reached 199.3 billion euros ($219.46 billion) in 2018, according to Germany's foreign office.
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The U.K. Foreign Office, headed by Boris Johnson, issued a statement calling for a "united response" to Russia.
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But the Foreign Office official told the BBC it had been nothing more than a joke between colleagues.
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Britain said it had summoned Liu to the foreign office following his "unacceptable" comments, a government source said.
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The source, who declined to be named, said the ambassador had been called in to the Foreign Office.
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Mr Johnson "has basically thrown our top diplomat under the bus", said Sir Alan Duncan, a Foreign Office minister.
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A Foreign Office spokesman told the PA news agency that the office would not comment further on the letter.
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The foreign office said it was continuing to raise the case with officials in Hong Kong, London and China.
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The Foreign Office told the BBC it was aware of the incident and was offering support to the family.
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Labour legislator Ivan Lewis, a former Foreign Office minister, is also denying allegations that he acted improperly toward women.
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During the second world war, when Britain needed Greece's help, the Foreign Office drafted a scheme for their return.
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"Special Branch conducted further interrogation of the guide before returning him to Guatemala," a Foreign Office file states bluntly.
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The UK Foreign Office could not confirm whether the two cases were related, nor when the Britons were arrested.
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"Without question women must have a seat at the table," Foreign Office minister Tariq Ahmad said in a statement.
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Britain's Foreign Office was unable immediately to provide details of military sales to Nigeria in the last few years.
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Khalilzad arrived on Tuesday in Islamabad and called on Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a foreign office statement said.
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He eventually was awarded compensation to the value of £21.44,835 (around £30,000 or $43,000 today) by the Foreign Office.
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Johnson's visit to Iran is only the third by a foreign secretary since 2003, the UK Foreign Office said.
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The queen and her 96-year-old husband, Prince Philip, watched from the balcony of the nearby Foreign Office.
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The Foreign Office spokeswoman said former Prime Minister David Cameron had repeatedly raised the case with his Iranian counterpart.
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At first Hans worked for the Foreign Office for their German department, and wrote articles for the publicity section.
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The British Foreign Office released a list of the oddest phone calls it received this year from Britons abroad.
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Their private secretary, Fiona Mcilwham, is expected to return to the Foreign Office, where she had been a diplomat.
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Now, a year later, the first transaction is just about to be processed, according to the German Foreign Office.
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The Foreign Office said its embassies in Baghdad and Tehran remained open but declined to comment on operational detail.
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The Swedish foreign office declined to give details on the invitation for new talks, or whether Pyongyang had accepted.
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For example, the agreement would eliminate the requirement of opening a foreign office to do business in another country.
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Britain's Foreign Office said in a travel advisory those traveling to Thailand had to be respectful of people's feelings.
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That went to Tim Barrow, a former ambassador to Moscow and the current political director of the Foreign Office.
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The British Foreign Office said it was "supporting a British woman following an incident in Queensland," news reports said.
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When World War II broke out, Rosamunde left school, learned shorthand and went to work for the Foreign Office.
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The piece provoked a flurry of correspondence between an official in Northern Ireland and one in Britain's Foreign Office.
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Britain's Foreign Office, pointing out this was not a binding judgment, said it would look "carefully" at the details.
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"France condemns this decision, which expands settlement activity in the West Bank," the French foreign office said in a statement.
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Amid the uncertainty, the UK Foreign Office updated its travel advice to caution against all but essential travel to Gambia.
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Johnson's successor at the foreign office, Jeremy Hunt, gave a speech that, for some, sent a strong signal of intent.
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"We hope the UAE now looks favourably on the family's request for clemency," a spokeswoman for Britain's Foreign Office said.
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Britain's Foreign Office added that if the evidence was correct, it would be "a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention".
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The Foreign Office has replaced Sir Ivan as ambassador to the EU with one of its own, Sir Tim Barrow.
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She was a wonderful mother, but she missed being able to contribute her considerable intellectual gifts to the Foreign Office.
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"We hope the UAE now looks favourably on the family's request for clemency," a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said.
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Pierce began her career at the Foreign Office in 1981 and was Britain's ambassador to Afghanistan between 2015 and 2016.
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A Pakistani foreign office statement said Qureshi said the planned event would hurt the feelings of Muslims around the world.
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He even criticised the government for cutting the Foreign Office budget, as if more money would have prevented the attack.
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According to the German foreign office, in recent years numerous outstanding German orchestras, operas and ballet companies have toured China.
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A spokesperson for the British Foreign Office says that it is "aware" of the video and is examining its content.
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The Foreign Office said London and Buenos Aires had agreed their first positive statement about South Atlantic issues since 1999.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British Foreign Office said it had summoned the North Korean ambassador to condemn Wednesday's ballistic missile test.
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Below are extracts from Kim Darroch's resignation letter and the response from the head civil servant at Britain's Foreign Office.
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The British Foreign Office quoted Zarif as saying that Johnson's comments had nothing to do with the weekend court appearance.
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Pakistan's Foreign Office said that all its officials are safe, with one suffering only a slight injury from broken glass.
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The Foreign Office could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by sending a one-line instruction: 'Just say no.
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Von Tunzelmann begins her yarn with an arresting anecdote related by Anthony Nutting, a minister in the British Foreign Office.
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"The prison was breached, over 213 very serious prisoners escaped," British Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan told Parliament Tuesday.
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"The prison was breached, over 100 very serious prisoners escaped," British Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan told Parliament Tuesday.
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A foreign office official traveled to Tehran this past week to make the case for maintaining the 2015 nuclear deal.
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" Inside the Foreign Office, " a BBC documentary series that premièred last November, captured Johnson as a distracted, agenda-free buffoon.
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But Germany's foreign office minister Michael Roth welcomed the veto and said he hoped Warsaw would completely ditch the reforms.
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Britain's Foreign Office said it was working to organise a flight to Japan to evacuate its nationals from the ship.
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The Swedish foreign office declined to give any details on the invitation for new talks, or whether Pyongyang had accepted.
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After graduation, he worked at the British Foreign Office and was secretary to the British delegation at major disarmament talks.
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Hammond was moved from the foreign office to run the finance ministry late on Wednesday by Prime Minister Theresa May.
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" A representative for the UK's Foreign Office said in a statement that "this is an advisory opinion, not a judgment.
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That was acknowledged by a former head of the British foreign office, Peter Ricketts, who wrote on Twitter that Mrs.
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"We hope the UAE now looks favorably on the family's request for clemency," a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said.
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"The Foreign Office confirms the suspension of preferential Visa treatment for private travel by Cambodian government members, including by Prime Minister Hun Sen and his family, by high-ranking military officials and the presidents of the highest Cambodian court," Susanne Beger-Blum, a spokeswoman for Germany's Federal Foreign Office, told Reuters in an e-mail.
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"I said I thought it would be important and helpful ... The foreign secretary and the Foreign Office expressed reservations," Ratcliffe said.
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The fifth man was the band's manager, Craig Tarry, his family confirmed through a statement issued Sunday through Britain's Foreign Office.
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Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan said on Thursday that the Caribbean island took the full force of the Category 5 hurricane.
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Britain's previous ambassador to the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers, was a Treasury man who had never worked for the Foreign Office.
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A senior colleague—the agency's liaison with the Foreign Office—told him to drop it because Mr Browder was "a pain".
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Of every £28,250 of public spending, over £53 goes on defence, £25 on foreign aid and £28 on the Foreign Office.
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"We are very concerned by reports that Mr. Regeni had been subjected to torture," the Foreign Office said in a statement.
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Britain shut its embassy in Ankara on Friday for what its foreign office said were security reasons, without giving further details.
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LONDON – Britain&aposs Foreign Office is criticizing "childish" pranksters who called Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson posing as the leader of Armenia.
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Britain's Foreign Office admitted that it had not granted Ms Bibi asylum for fear of endangering its own staff in Pakistan.
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A short time later, the call came from the British government's foreign office telling her what had happened in Las Vegas.
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She moved Rory Stewart sideways from the Foreign Office to prisons (he would have been a superb replacement for Boris Johnson).
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Palmerston Foreign office Cat (B/W) Larry (tabby) locked in a fierce fight again how many more times, needs sorting pic.twitter.
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" The announcement came as the UK Foreign Office warned citizens traveling to Egypt of a "heightened risk of terrorism against aviation.
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A spokeswoman for Britain's Foreign Office called the Russian move regrettable, and said it was considering the implications of the measures.
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"Mauritius has a wealth of well-qualified financial and legal personnel and benefits from a multilingual workforce," writes the Foreign Office.
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A spokesperson for the foreign office disputed whether Johnson had used bad language and said he had been attacking business lobbyists.
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"The investigations being conducted around the Grace 1 are a matter for the government of Gibraltar," a Foreign Office spokesman said.
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"LGBT travellers may be affected by legislation passed recently in the states of North Carolina and Mississippi," the Foreign Office said.
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Germany's Federal Foreign Office tells German travelers that it's often cheaper to fly back to Germany to get medical treatment there.
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The British Foreign Office said the diplomats had been carrying out routine travel and had undergone all the necessary Russian checks.
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The page was removed later on Monday and the foreign office repeated the restrictions did not apply to UK passport holders.
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Travelers can also check the U.S. State Department and the U.K. Foreign Office websites for additional insight into countrywide travel warnings.
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"The UK welcomes this further action by our U.S. allies," a spokesman for the UK Foreign Office said in a statement.
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Long-Distance Callers: The British Foreign Office released a list of some of the odd phone requests it received in 2018.
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The British Foreign Office posted an advisory in September warning citizens of Iranian descent against all but essential travel to Iran.
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"If you're in China and able to leave, you should do so," Britain's Foreign Office said in an updated travel advisory.
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Do your homework – use the Foreign Office website to check on safety, and check forums on sites such as Lonely Planet.
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Finally, he called the cell phone number, which the German Foreign Office had given Isler, of a Libyan coast guard commander.
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"Foreign Office aid is tackling poverty and conflict and boosting prosperity in some of the world's poorest countries," a spokeswoman said.
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Khan accepted an invitation to visit Washington and will meet Trump on July 22, the foreign office said in a statement.
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A suggestion to relocate Hong Kong residents after the territory's return to China, in 1997, once inadvertently reached the Foreign Office.
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A spokesperson for the foreign office disputed whether he had used bad language and said he had been attacking business lobbyists.
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The veteran Conservative politician was foreign office minister in 1994, where he was responsible for government negotiations on Europe and NATO enlargement.
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The UK Foreign Office said in a statement it was in contact with Indian authorities following reports that the climbers were missing.
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Sajid Javid was appointed chancellor of the exchequer, Dominic Raab took charge at the Foreign Office and Priti Patel became home secretary.
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LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The British Foreign Office said it had summoned the North Korean ambassador to condemn Wednesday's ballistic missile test.
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Jones said the incident appeared to contradict Foreign Office advice for UK citizens traveling to the US, and statements made by Johnson.
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Germany's foreign office is providing the merit scholarships, as well as tuition for all students (up to 90 in the next years).
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Alan Duncan, a minister at the Foreign Office, said Johnson's comments marked "one of the most disgusting moments in modern British politics".
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He was later seen walking toward the Foreign Office, where he works as an undersecretary of state, covered in the officer's blood.
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He has shown no reticence in criticizing Johnson, his former boss at the foreign office, once describing him as a "circus act".
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Trump said Monday that the White House would no longer deal with Darroch, and the UK Foreign Office announced Darroch's resignation Wednesday.
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Speaking to CNN Saturday morning, a spokesperson for the UK Foreign Office did not confirm a British citizen was among the victims.
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Earlier today, Britain's Foreign Office turned down a request from the Ecuadorian government to grant him diplomatic status, according to The Telegraph.
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The front cover pictured Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood as well as paramedics and police officers reacting to the stabbing on Wednesday.
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Tobias Ellwood, a junior Foreign Office minister, was pictured attempting to resuscitate a man lying unconscious, reported to be the stabbed policeman.
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In response to Trump, Britain's Foreign Office said last week that Islamic State remained a threat even though it held no territory.
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But I'm positive that at least now that the Foreign Office are taking a firmer stance," she told CNN's "Hala Gorani Tonight.
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A large part in this story is played by Charles Powell, a Foreign Office man who became her private secretary in 22005.
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The UK Foreign Office has not yet responded to Business Insider's request for comment on the potential release of the Grace 1.
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The Foreign Office and Home Office in London had no immediate response to questions about how they planned to handle Ms. Yingluck.
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Britain's Foreign Office confirmed that Mutreb served as a first secretary at the Saudi embassy in London for a period including 2007.
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There he met Martine Duphenieux, the daughter of a prominent family; she was working in the French Foreign Office at the time.
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"The two sides reviewed developments post Abu Dhabi, in order to take the Afghan peace process forward," a foreign office statement said.
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The United States State Department and the British Foreign Office sent notes of protest, and President Theodore Roosevelt personally chastised Czar Nicholas.
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The UK Foreign Office said it was "working intensively" with US authorities on arranging a flight for British nationals, according to BBC.
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Several women's rights groups protested outside the Foreign Office and the Cypriot Embassy in London on Monday in support of the woman.
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Geng also commented on the UK Foreign Office announcement that it has summoned the Chinese ambassador to the UK over the matter.
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In 2013, after yet another fatal ferry accident, the British Foreign Office advised its citizens against traveling by ferry in the Philippines.
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"It's the greatest alliance the world has ever known," Trump told reporters at a news conference beside May at Britain's Foreign Office.
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On Wednesday, the Russian Embassy in London drew attention via its Twitter account to a deleted tweet by the U.K. Foreign Office.
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"The prime minister and foreign secretary have both raised Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case with their counterparts in Iran," a Foreign Office spokesperson said.
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Britain's Foreign Office merely says it is "co-ordinating with other JCPOA participants regarding the next steps under the terms of the deal".
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In a statement Friday, Britain's Foreign Office said it was "almost certain" that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were behind the attacks.
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The foreign office said it would base any decision on punitive action against Saudi Arabia on the kingdom's own explanation for Khashoggi's death.
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"The Foreign Secretary expressed his regret at the disturbance to Saudi Major General Asseri's visit to London on Thursday," the Foreign Office said.
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"This would support Hong Kong's continued prosperity and help protect the Special Administrative Region's rights and freedoms," a British Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
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"We are urgently investigating this incident and are in close contact with the French authorities," the UK's Foreign Office said in a statement.
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"The U.S. is an extremely diverse society and attitudes towards LGBT people differ hugely across the country," the U.K. Foreign Office website says.
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Meanwhile, the UK's Foreign Office has sent staff to Spain to assist a number of British tourists who were injured in Thursday's attack.
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FRENCH GOVERNMENT UPDATES TRAVEL ADVICE FOR CHINA, DOES NOT RECOMMEND VISITS TO CHINA UNLESS ABSOLUTELY "IMPERATIVE" DUE TO CORONAVIRUS SITUATION - FRENCH FOREIGN OFFICE
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Foreign Office diplomats, though, dismiss many of the islanders' concerns, insisting that Anguilla is not as dependent on EU funding as it claims.
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The interior ministry did not immediately respond to the diplomats' comments, instead referring Reuters to a statement by Pakistan's foreign office last month.
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Britain's foreign office merely says it is "co-ordinating with other JCPoA participants regarding the next steps under the terms of the deal".
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The UK Foreign Office said it could not confirm details of Evans' death and again advised British nationals not to travel to Syria.
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"This rubbish is unworthy of a British foreign secretary," said Peter Ricketts, the top diplomat in the Foreign Office from 2006 to 2010.
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Hedges said the UAE authorities had asked him to "steal documents and information from the UK Foreign Office" and that this shocked him.
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Mandarin Chinese is now widely taught in France and 100,000 secondary students studied the language in 2015, according to the French foreign office.
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Alok Sharma Sharma is a junior minister in the Department of Work and Pensions and previously worked under Johnson in the foreign office.
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Without specifying who is to blame, Pakistan's Foreign Office did "strongly condemn" Wednesday morning's "terrorist attack" and urged its western neighbor to respond.
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"You should exercise caution, particularly in public places ... Further incidents are possible in these and other areas of Thailand," the Foreign Office said.
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Nick Wright of University College London believes that funding boosts for existing departments, particularly the stripped-down Foreign Office, would make more sense.
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"We can confirm David Dixon lost his life in the attacks which took place in Brussels," the Foreign Office wrote in a statement.
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Asked for comment by Reuters, Britain's Foreign Office said on Saturday that it would not provide a commentary on "every twist and turn".
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The Foreign Office is demoralised by decades of cuts, and the security establishment is still tainted by the weapons-of-mass-destruction fiasco.
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At that time, the cause of European integration was strongly favored by the Foreign Office, indeed most of the establishment, including many Tories.
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"The foreign office is urgently exploring options for British nationals to leave Hubei province, the details are being finalised," the spokesman told reporters.
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The UK Foreign Office said it was "working urgently" to organize a flight to the UK "as soon as possible," the BBC said.
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"The foreign office is urgently exploring options for British nationals to leave Hubei province, the details are being finalised," the spokesman told reporters.
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" The Foreign Office statement criticized the Iranian government, alleging that the legal proceedings brought against the jailed woman "failed to meet international standards.
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The British Foreign Office told the BBC that it was unaware of the company's alleged activity at the time the contracts were awarded.
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The Foreign Office confirmed it had received the request for ambassador Alexander Yakovenko to meet Johnson, but called the request a diversionary tactic.
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Britain's Foreign Office said in a statement that "we conducted another search and are providing him with further material," referring to Mr. Othman.
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Alan Judd is a novelist and biographer who worked in the British Foreign Office and is the authorized biographer of the founder of MI6.
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The Russian charge d'affaires in London was summoned to the Foreign Office to be told Britain wanted those responsible to be brought to justice.
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Britain's Foreign Office said in a statement that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had spoken about the incident with Prince Mohammed by telephone on Saturday.
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"Afghanistan was urged to take urgent measures to eliminate the terrorists and their sanctuaries, financiers and handlers," the foreign office said in a statement.
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Sharif will fly to Saudi Arabia on Monday before visiting Iran's capital Tehran on Tuesday, Pakistan's foreign office said in a statement on Sunday.
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"I always thought when I was in the foreign office that if you ever need to revert to lawyers you've probably lost," he said.
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A UK foreign office spokesman said that Britain was seeking information on the new French cases and was ready to offer any support needed.
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Faced with such fears, the Foreign Office insists that Britain's overseas territories will not be any worse off after Brexit than Britain will be.
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"We have not been able to confirm any further details at this stage and are urgently seeking further information," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
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"Canada and Saudi Arabia are both close partners of the UK, and we urge restraint during the current situation," a foreign office spokeswoman said.
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Pakistan foreign office spokesman Nafees Zakria said in response that the property belonged to Pakistan's founding father, and that "ownership rights" must be respected.
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"The Foreign Secretary will urge the Iranians to release dual nationals where there are humanitarian grounds to do so," a foreign office spokesman said.
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The English players had been instructed before the match that they should give the salute, with the order coming direct from the Foreign Office.
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Simon Fraser, the former permanent secretary at the UK foreign office, said he expected British politicians to vote on May's deal on Dec. 10.
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However, Britain's Foreign Office softened its advice last year and Thomas Cook said all three of its flights to Tunisia's Enfidha airport were full.
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A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are in contact with local authorities in Peru following an incident involving a British national in Machu Pichu."
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Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Karzai and Pakistani Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry will attend the talks on Monday, Pakistani foreign office sources told Reuters.
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However much Mrs May splices up the government, it is the Foreign Office that has the skills and experience to make that a reality.
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At this stage we don't know many details, but the Foreign Office have said that a British national has indeed been detained in Kyrgyzstan.
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LONDON — Britain's new leader had been in office barely a week when a skirmish broke out between 10 Downing Street and the Foreign Office.
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"The onus remains on the Russian state to account for their actions and to comply with their international obligations," the Foreign Office said Saturday.
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A British embassy spokeswoman said it did not comment on intelligence matters, and there was no immediate response from the Foreign Office in London.
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The Foreign Office said that 70 percent of employees who left jobs there had cited poor pay as the main reason for their departure.
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President Trump digs in on the U.S. government shutdown, Macedonia's former prime minister flees, and the British Foreign Office gets some funny phone calls.
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Britain: The Foreign Office brought home 82 women from forced marriages over two years, then billed them as much as $1,000 for their return.
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Britain's foreign office said the United Kingdom did not recognise Somaliland as an independent state but supported and encouraged talks between Hargeisa and Mogadishu.
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On Monday, Germany's Foreign Office advised against "all but essential travel to China" and asked that people avoid travel to the province of Hubei.
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Britain's Foreign Office told citizens, "if you're in China and able to leave, you should do so," and France's Foreign Ministry issued similar advice.
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Later on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Pakistan's foreign office tweeted that Pakistanis should "exercise maximum caution while planning visit to Iraq at this point".
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Later on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Pakistan's foreign office tweeted that Pakistanis should "exercise maximum caution while planning visit to Iraq at this point".
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The decision by BA follows an advisory by the U.K. Foreign Office that says only essential travel should be taken to anywhere in China.
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We have therefore officially requested the Foreign Office to provide us with the respective information, including on whether the animals are receiving any treatment.
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But new report claims Downing Street knew about the unauthorised meetings within days and suppressed them to save the embarrassment of the Foreign Office.
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Liu was summoned to the British foreign office earlier this week following his comments that "colonial" Britain should keep its "hands off Hong Kong".
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"Our staff are in contact with the lawyer of a British man following his detention in the USA," Britain's Foreign Office said in statement.
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In a separate statement, Britain's Foreign Office said a full range of options should be on the table in response to the reported attack.
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However, Farah "still fundamentally disagrees with this incredible divisive and discriminatory policy," according to a statement from the UK Foreign Office obtained by the BBC.
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The royal couple has been sent to the French capital at the suggestion of the British Foreign Office to cement ties between Britain and France.
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During the spring, Stewart, who served as a minister under Johnson in the Foreign Office, stood as a moderate candidate in the Conservative-leadership contest.
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One diplomat says gloomily that for 30 years Britain's EU policy was run by Foreign Office officials and then for 15 years by Treasury mandarins.
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The British Foreign Office has advised its citizens not to travel to Sousse, meaning accredited tour operators will not sell tickets and packages to tourists.
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The Foreign Office did not mention Zaghari-Ratcliffe by name, although Johnson has vowed to leave "no stone unturned" in Britain's efforts to free her.
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HAVING THE current foreign secretary and his predecessor locked in a battle to be prime minister makes this an awkward time for Britain's Foreign Office.
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UK embassy No. 2 Thae is listed as the second-highest official after the ambassador in a diplomatic list published by the UK Foreign Office.
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The Foreign Office submitted a memorandum consisting of little more than a set of aspirations with no details about how to put them into practice.
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The U.S. had been "nowhere to be seen" on the matter while a Brexit-burdened Foreign Office had "no bandwidth" for anything else, he said.
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Bulgaria's chief prosecutor said he would not detain the citizens and the foreign office said it was seeking urgent consultations with Washington over the matter.
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In an opinion piece published on a government website on Wednesday, Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood called the leadership in South Sudan an "abject failure".
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President Donald Trump's state visit to Britain has put the Queen in a "very difficult position," the former head of the U.K. Foreign Office claims.
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"The Minister for Asia and High Commissioner have raised their concerns in person," a British foreign office spokeswoman said in an emailed statement on Friday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is no longer advising against travel to most of Tunisia, including Tunis and major tourist destinations, the foreign office said on Wednesday.
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Conservative lawmaker Alistair Burt, a former foreign office minister who is opposed to a no-deal Brexit, said he could not support the Labour leader.
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It had no immediate comment on the experts' call, but in June, foreign office minister Alan Duncan said Assange would be treated humanely and properly.
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In a statement on Friday, the British Foreign Office said Raab had condemned the violence in Hong Kong but emphasized the right to peaceful protest.
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Alan Duncan, a minister of state at the Foreign Office, suggested that Mr. Trump had spoken to The Sun before reading the details of Mrs.
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The Foreign Office said that some of the escaped prisoners, which included high-risk inmates, have been recaptured, but an unspecified number remain at large.
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Britain's Foreign Office said in a statement on Saturday that the country's National Security Council would meet early next week to consider its next steps.
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He has a more prestigious job — in the Foreign Office, whereas Bob is a mere financial type — and people hang on his words and opinions.
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A top official at Khan's office and another at the foreign office confirmed that Khan was scheduled to fly to neighbouring Iran at the weekend.
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A top official at Khan's office and another at the foreign office confirmed that Khan was scheduled to fly to neighboring Iran at the weekend.
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"We have been told by Chinese authorities that Gui Minhai has been released in China," foreign office spokeswoman Sofia Karlberg said, offering no further details.
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TV that federal officials have made progress with China, citing good law enforcement contacts and plans to open a second foreign office there next year.
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Tobias Ellwood, a minister in the Foreign Office, tried to save the life of the fatally stabbed police officer by giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
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In its first response to Khan's election, the Indian foreign office said it hoped Pakistan's new government would work for a terror-free South Asia.
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"We also note with concern the decision by the United States not to fully renew waivers for nuclear non-proliferation projects," Britain's foreign office added.
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Earlier on Sunday, Pakistan summoned the Indian deputy high commissioner to protest against any "misadventure", Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal said in a tweet.
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The Foreign Office has said there was "not an ounce of truth" in his implication the nerve agent could have been linked to Porton Down.
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During a party hosted by Julie and her roommate, she meets Anthony (Tom Burke), a dark-haired, renegade Foreign Office cog with a Lord Byron coat.
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The Foreign Office statement did not mention Zaghari-Ratcliffe by name, although Johnson has vowed to leave "no stone unturned" in Britain's efforts to free her.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Office confirmed on Thursday that its ambassador to Tehran had been summoned over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar.
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"The potential for military intervention and civil disturbance is high and could result in Banjul International Airport being closed at short notice," the Foreign Office said.
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Van der Linden said that Google, WhatsApp, the British Foreign Office and the European Commission are all working with them on how to use the game.
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The UK Foreign Office says Assange is free to walk out of the embassy at any time, but it has a legal duty to extradite him.
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But on Wednesday, Germany's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, warned against politicizing the case, and the Russian ambassador was invited to the Foreign Office for discussions.
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The royal dad of three arrived at the Foreign Office to open The Mayhew Theatre, a new learning facility in the Diplomatic Academy building in London.
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His statement came after a British Foreign Office report last month said it was likely Lee had been "involuntarily removed" to mainland China from Hong Kong.
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The British Foreign Office updated its travel advice on Saturday to add a reference to the British Airways suspension, advising travellers affected to contact the airline.
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The British Foreign Office updated its travel advisory on Saturday to add a reference to the British Airways suspension, advising travellers affected to contact the airline.
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"The British public would expect our Ambassadors to provide ministers with an honest, unvarnished assessment of the politics in their country," the Foreign Office said Sunday.
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"We continue to work very closely with Richard, the UK Foreign Office and the British authorities to find a resolution to this terrible situation," she added.
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" Maas, in a tweet from the German Foreign Office, noted that while the US and Germany's "views on the #JCPoA differ, we have the same objectives.
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"Iran has broken the terms of the JCPoA," the Foreign Office spokesman said, referring to the deal's formal name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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Within months, Australia had established a subsea cabling division in its foreign office and said it would not allow the Solomons cable to connect in Australia.
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The Foreign Office website, updated on Tuesday, advised fans travelling to support them to be vigilant at all times and follow the advice of French authorities.
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The British Foreign Office updated its travel advisory on Saturday to add a reference to the British Airways' suspension, advising travelers affected to contact the airline.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Office has warned fans travelling to France for the Euro 2016 soccer tournament that its venues are "potential targets for terrorist attacks".
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"The Sino-British Joint Declaration remains as valid today as it did when it was signed over thirty years ago," a British Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
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On Wednesday, a statement from Britain's Foreign Office said Johnson would meet Richard Ratcliffe to discuss the government's efforts "to secure her release on humanitarian grounds".
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And in the Foreign Office, it has a Rolls Royce of a foreign ministry; storied, wise and staffed with some of the cleverest people in Europe.
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" A spokesman for the Foreign Office said the public would expect ambassadors "to provide ministers with an honest, unvarnished assessment of the politics in their country.
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The German Foreign Office, in a sardonic reply, found it "astounding" that other countries would decry Germany's treatment of Jews and then decline to admit them.
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The leak has prompted a major Foreign Office investigation, with senior Conservative members of parliament calling for a police inquiry to identify the source behind it.
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The permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, McDonald, confirmed to members of Parliament that the Metropolitan Police had been brought in to help with the investigation.
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The British Foreign Office said more than 1,300 troops are in the region, on affected islands or nearby locations, ready to help after Maria goes by.
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In the British parliament, junior foreign office minister Alistair Burt said the United States needed to show more understanding about the causes of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prince William and his wife Kate will visit Pakistan in the autumn at the request of Britain's Foreign Office, Kensington Palace said on Saturday.
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The British prime minister, Theresa May, said Britain was "seriously disappointed," but the Foreign Office said on Thursday it would be inappropriate to block the measure.
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"Our priority today is looking after our staff in Russia and assisting those that will return to the UK," the Foreign Office said in its statement.
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The report added that the Foreign Office and Department for International Development had determined the aid programs in the northwestern parts of Syria to be "unsustainable".
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"The Sino-British Joint Declaration remains as valid today as it did when it was signed over 30 years ago," a British Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
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"Fundamentally, we're not aligned with the Americans on this," said Simon Fraser, a former head of Britain's Foreign Office, who has served in Iraq and Syria.
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"Iran has broken the terms of the JCPoA," the Foreign Office spokesman said, refering to the deal's formal name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said Tuesday that Washington had "not got this right," and said his government was prepared to defy Trump on the issue.
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Gove, who along with Johnson, was the face of the Leave campaign, is rumored to be in line for a vacant position in the Foreign Office.
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LONDON, July 26 (Reuters) - Britain is no longer advising against travel to most of Tunisia, including Tunis and major tourist destinations, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
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DfID is rolling in money because a legally mandated formula allocates it 0.7% of national income; meanwhile the Foreign Office must downsize or sell off its embassies.
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"We used to be the largest country in Europe and then we just disappeared from the map," says Marijus Gudynas of the Lithuanian Foreign Office, in Vilnius.
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In an update to its travel advice, the Foreign Office also said some staff and dependants from the British Embassy and consulates were being withdrawn from China.
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The British Foreign Office did not immediately reply to a request for comment, but British authorities have said they raised Hedges' case with the UAE several times.
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"A lot of people perceive us as being rather introspective," and are confused about Britain's intentions, says Sir Simon Fraser, a former head of the Foreign Office.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Office said on Thursday that a British citizen reported to have been arrested in Iran is not currently being detained by authorities there.
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LONDON — The UK Foreign Office has issued new travel advice urging LGBT tourists to be aware of both states' laws when travelling to North Carolina and Mississippi.
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The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office referred to Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan's June statement that Assange would be treated "humanely and properly" if he left the embassy.
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LONDON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Britain has summoned North Korea's ambassador to express its condemnation of the country's weekend ballistic missile launch, the Foreign Office said on Tuesday.
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In a statement beforehand, the Foreign Office said Hunt would call on the Saudi authorities to do more to deliver justice and accountability for the Khashoggi family.
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The British Foreign Office is "urgently seeking information from the Iranian authorities following reports of the arrest of a British-Iranian dual national," a spokesman told CNN.
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"We are urgently seeking information from the Iranian authorities on the reported accusations being made against Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe," a spokesperson for the Foreign Office told Reuters.
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Britain's Foreign Office said on Sunday that security in Turkey is "potentially volatile" though the overall situation is "calming down" and the coastal resorts are largely unaffected.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has recalled its ambassador in New Delhi for consultations amid escalating tensions with nuclear-armed neighbor India, Pakistan's foreign office spokesman said on Monday.
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The law requires the UK's Foreign Office (FCO) to formally serve the legal papers to Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) before the enforcement proceedings can begin.
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"We condemn these actions and commit ourselves to working with all responsible states to combat destructive criminal use of cyber space," Foreign Office minister Tariq Ahmad said.
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The British Foreign Office said more than 1,300 troops are on standby, either on affected islands or in nearby locations, ready to help after Maria tears through.
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Separately, the German Foreign Office issued a statement on Thursday saying its embassy in Ankara and its consulate in Istanbul would be closed because of security concerns.
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British Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan described Assange on Tuesday as a "miserable little worm," who should leave the embassy and give himself up to British justice.
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Later on Sunday, Robert Courts said he was quitting as a parliamentary private secretary — an unpaid ministerial aide — at the foreign office to "express discontent" with Mrs.
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The British Foreign Office neglected formal training for its diplomats for decades; it finally established a dedicated center in 2015, but it hasn't instituted mandatory professional development.
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A spokesman for the Foreign Office said it was in the process of selling Mr. Phillipson's current residence, which is near the British Consulate on Second Avenue.
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"We have suspended all flights to and from mainland China with immediate effect following advice from the Foreign Office against all but essential travel," the company said.
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The British Foreign Office said Sunday, "We are supporting a British woman and her family following her arrest in Cyprus, and are in touch with local authorities."
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Mr. Burrows's profile page on LinkedIn describes him as a former counselor in the Foreign Office, with postings in Brussels and New Delhi in the early 2000s.
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Ms. Moore-Gilbert and her family have been receiving consular assistance from the Australian authorities, and the British Foreign Office is working in cooperation with the Australians.
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UK's foreign office said there was "not an ounce of truth" in what he is saying about Porton Down, and dismissed it as "nonsense," the report said.
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The British Foreign Office released a statement on Monday warning tourists in the area, "particularly those hiking or cycling in the southern part, to exercise extreme caution."
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BUDAPEST, March 25 (Reuters) - Steven Dick, Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Budapest, has died after contracting coronavirus, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
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At the same conference, Peter Wilson, the U.K. ambassador in The Hague, revealed that GRU agents had attempted to compromise Foreign Office systems in a March attack.
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As a result, Harrison was forced to admit the affair to Foreign Office mandarins, leading to his removal in 1968 and the end of his diplomatic career.
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"We are providing support to the families of three British nationals following their deaths near Da Lat, Vietnam," the Foreign Office says in a statement emailed to Mashable.
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In a tweet on Wednesday, Italy's Foreign Office Junior Minister Guglielmo Picchi said the government should carry out a preventive review before any sale to protect national security.
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Thailand had the second-highest number of deaths of British nationals in 2014 after Spain, which is the top holiday spot for Britons, British Foreign Office figures show.
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In desperation, Ratcliffe, a 41-year-old accountant from north London, has now decided to go public with the story -- against the advice of the UK Foreign Office.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Office continues to "urgently seek further information" about an employee of its Hong Kong consulate who was detained in China, it said on Thursday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq must wean itself off economic reliance on Iran and become more energy self-sufficient, Britain's foreign office minister for the Middle East said on Sunday.
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Pakistan's foreign office and the army's media wing did not respond to several written and telephoned requests for comment in which Reuters outlined the accusations leveled against Pakistan.
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When asked about the donations mentioned in the ban, the British Embassy referred questions to the Foreign Office, which did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
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The pair faced journalists at the Foreign Office in London Tuesday in Johnson's first news conference since his controversial appointment by the UK's new Prime Minister, Theresa May.
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In November, Pakistan handed to Afghanistan 27 people suspected of belonging to the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network, a spokesman for the country's foreign office said on Monday.
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Britain's junior Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood told reporters that the Russian pause was "being used simply for them to regroup and further their own stranglehold over Aleppo".
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A Foreign Office source said the identities of the alleged "British spies" shown in the video were unknown and that the film might be purely a propaganda exercise.
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"His candidacy comes as a surprise and he definitely poses a challenge, a big one, to Rouhani," said Hossein Rassam, a former Iran adviser to Britain's Foreign Office.
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The British Foreign Office confirmed on Friday that David Dixon, who was from Nottingham but lived in Brussels, was traveling on the metro and died during the explosion.
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The Blavatnik's airy atrium, with its Babel of languages, is as good a symbol of Britain's new role as the forbidding Foreign Office is of its past one.
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"Recruitment is a long process of seduction," said Mark Galeotti, senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague and former special adviser to the British foreign office.
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Alistair Burt, the British Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign Office, said the UK is working "urgently" with the United Nations towards an inquiry.
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"Waiting for disasters to happen should not be an option any more," Peter Felten, head of humanitarian assistance at the German Federal Foreign Office, said in a statement.
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LONDON, July 4 (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Office confirmed on Thursday that its ambassador to Tehran had been summoned over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar.
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"In October, a Foreign Office spokesperson said: "We have done everything we can properly to clear a path so that justice can be done for Harry&aposs family.
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Raab will "seek the opportunity to push for a political solution to the crisis in Yemen, following the recent surge in Houthi violence," the foreign office statement said.
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One person phoned from the United States to ask the Foreign Office who had been voted off the enormously popular TV show "Strictly Come Dancing" the night before.
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A Foreign Office spokesperson told TechCrunch by phone that, despite one report, U.S. travelers will not be banned from entering the U.K. in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Asked about the U.S. official's comments, Pakistan's foreign office spokeswoman, Aisha Farooqui, said CPEC was a transformational project for Pakistan, and completing it was the government's highest priority.
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The Foreign Office rejected the criticism, saying the review failed to recognize the pivotal role Britain had played in galvanizing world support to help rape victims in war.
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"Remain calm," Mr. Mugabe told the nation after an electoral process that some British Foreign Office strategists had hoped, as they acknowledged much later, would deny him victory.
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The Foreign Office reiterated its position on the settlements after the United States on Monday effectively backed Israel's right to build Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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He denies as "completely untrue" the accusations raised by the Marburg files, which were Nazi foreign office documents discovered by Allied soldiers in central Germany after the war.
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A statement issued by Britain's Foreign Office after Johnson met with Aung San Suu Kyi said he had raised the case of the two journalists without providing details.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Alistair Burt, a junior minister in Britain's Foreign Office, urged his Conservative colleagues on Thursday not to submit letters of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May.
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"Let me reiterate that there is no organised presence of Daesh in Pakistan," foreign office spokesman Nafees Zakaria told reporters in Islamabad, using the Arabic acronym for the group.
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During Monday's visit, Chinese envoy Deng Xijun and Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua discussed "efforts for lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan," Pakistan's foreign office said in a statement.
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"Pakistan is deeply concerned at the recent escalation of tensions between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran," the foreign office said in a statement.
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Margaret Thatcher loathed the Foreign Office because she thought it was full of upper-class eunuchs who believed in managing decline at home and sucking up to foreigners abroad.
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BEIJING/HONG KONG, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Britain's foreign office said it was seeking more information about reports that a Hong Kong staff member had been detained in mainland China.
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And the British Foreign Office also called for a "full and transparent investigation" into Regeni's death, saying it had raised the case with Egyptian officials in London and Cairo.
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" The Foreign Office did not confirm the reports, but told Sky News: "We are assisting the family of a British man who has been reported missing in Sri Lanka.
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LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A transparent investigation must be held into an air strike in Yemen which killed dozens of children, a British Foreign Office minister said on Friday.
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In its travel advice, the Foreign Office warns people against all travel to within 100km of the Iran/Afghanistan border or within 10 km of the Iran/Iraq border.
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"Anita was a wonderful, perfect wife and a brilliant, loving and inspirational mother to our two wonderful children," Nicholson said in a statement released by the UK foreign office.
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The couple will visit South Africa, Angola and Malawi and also undertake a working visit to Botswana at the request of the Foreign Office, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.
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He has been a much better foreign secretary than Mr Johnson, his predecessor: foreign office insiders say that he inherited a demoralised and disoriented department and quickly reinvigorated it.
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After studying law at Oxford, he began his career as a lawyer and diplomat in the Foreign Office before entering politics, taking a safe seat in Surrey in 2010.
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" The British Foreign Office called for an urgent investigation and said that if the use of chemical weapons proved to be true, "it is further proof of Assad's brutality.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Iran has broken the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal and must immediately stop and reverse its activities, a spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office said on Sunday.
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When the great powers meet, the British foreign office often does the drafting, because of centuries of diplomatic experience and the fact that the text is always in English.
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She told her parents that she had joined the Foreign Office, the government agency supporting British interests abroad, though she was going only 50 miles or so from home.
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More details about the visit, made at the request of the Foreign Office based on the government's priorities, will be announced in due course, his Clarence House office added.
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On Tuesday, the former head of the U.K.'s Foreign Office wrote to The Times that the upcoming state visit was putting Queen Elizabeth in a "very difficult position."
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"The actions of the DPRK are a direct violation of multiple Security Council resolutions and are a threat to regional and international security," Foreign Office minister Mark Field said.
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But if viewers might have taken the "advisor" for a government insider, the Swedish Defense Ministry and Foreign Office told the newspaper Dagens Nyheter they knew nothing of him.
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Tensions stemming from the turf wars surfaced in a leaked letter in which Mr. Fox asked Mr. Johnson's Foreign Office to surrender economic diplomacy functions to the Trade Department.
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"The UK is seriously concerned by the escalation in violence from both the protesters and the authorities around Hong Kong university campuses," a spokesman for the Foreign Office said.
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A British Foreign Office spokeswoman responded that the "Sino-British Joint Declaration remains as valid today as it did when it was signed over 30 years ago," Reuters reported.
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Alan Duncan, the Foreign Office minister, resigned on Monday and David Gauke, the justice minister, said he would resign if the next prime minister pursued a no-deal Brexit.
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The impacts of "climate-induced drought" were also linked to the growing influence of ISIS in the Middle East in a 2017 report commissioned by the German foreign office.
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A German foreign office official said Germany was in touch with Spanish authorities demanding that Berlin be involved in any extradition proceedings and insisting that no extradition should take place.
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Seraj and his two deputies met British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and their Italian counterpart, Paolo Gentiloni, at the British Foreign Office in London.
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According to British media reports on Friday, the Foreign Office considers that Germany, Spain and Belgium are in a group of countries exposed to a high risk of terrorist attacks.
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Last week the Foreign Office summoned Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK, to complain about his criticism of British "interference" in the affairs of Hong Kong, its former colony.
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On Sunday, the U.K. Foreign office issued a statement which did not deny the veracity of the leak but said that diplomats like Darroch were meant to give candid opinions.
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"The Committee strongly urges that the (Foreign Office) develops and transmits to the EU detailed proposals for future co-operation in the area of foreign policy and defence," it said.
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"We are in contact with the Chinese authorities following the arrest of four British people in Jiangsu province, and are providing consular assistance," the Foreign Office said in a statement.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain summoned the Iranian Charge d'Affaires in London after Friday's seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the British Foreign Office said on Saturday.
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The UK Foreign Office said it was "in close contact with the authorities in Democratic Republic of the Congo following an incident involving two British nationals," in a statement Friday.
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The U.K. Foreign Office said Monday it had evidence that a century-old loophole has been exploited by money laundering schemes to move up to $80 billion out of Russia.
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Britain's Foreign Office said on Friday it was in contact with the Congolese authorities following an incident involving two British nationals and its staff were providing support to their families.
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Speaking at a Russia-China conference in Moscow, Vladimir Shapovalov, a senior central bank official, said the Bank of Russia would open its first foreign office in two weeks' time.
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"We continue to work very closely with Richard, the U.K. Foreign Office and the British authorities to find a resolution to this terrible situation," Ms. Villa said in her statement.
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" The Foreign Office cat is named after Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), who served twice as prime minister and three times as foreign secretary and was known for his "gunboat diplomacy.
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Junior foreign office minister Mark Field told Britain's parliament that the nuclear deal was the "only game in town" and that Britain and other European powers wanted it to succeed.
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"This marks one of the most disgusting moments in modern British politics," Sir Alan Duncan, a Conservative member of Parliament and a minister in the Foreign Office, wrote on Twitter.
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The British Foreign Office said in 2015 that in the previous five years it had received 43 complaints from British nationals of torture or mistreatment in the Emirati justice system.
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And if they fail to cobble together a repayment that can reach nearly $1,000 within six months, the Foreign Office adds a 10 percent surcharge on anything they still owe.
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However, the judge added it was "not possible to find on the balance of probability" that there had been direct intervention by the Foreign Office triggered by Mohammed or Dubai.
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British Airways has indefinitely suspended all flights to and from China, the airline said on Wednesday, citing advice from Britain's Foreign Office that cautioned against all nonessential travel to China.
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The Department for Exiting the European Union is reportedly set to be folded into the trade department, while the Department for International Development could be folded into the Foreign Office.
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"We have suspended all flights to and from mainland China with immediate effect following advice from the Foreign Office against all but essential travel," British Airways said in a statement.
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"The Foreign Secretary underlined the urgent need to investigate what had happened in Douma and to ensure a strong and robust international response," the Foreign Office said in a statement.
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"The Israeli ambassador has apologized and is clear these comments do not reflect the views of the embassy or government of Israel," a Foreign Office spokesman said in a statement.
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"We have made clear to the Russians that the queues need to be cleared on both sides, and they have agreed work with us on this," the Foreign Office spokesman said.
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Just when it should be preparing for a post-Brexit "Global Britain", the Foreign Office finds itself fighting fires both at home and in the countries it most needs to cultivate.
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" Britain's Foreign Office said Middle East minister Andrew Murrison would visit Tehran on Sunday to raise concerns about "Iran's regional conduct and its threat to cease complying with the nuclear deal.
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A spokeswoman for the British Embassy in Tel Aviv said it did not comment on intelligence matters, and there was no immediate response from the Foreign Office in London, Reuters reported.
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"The UK's close relationship with Saudi Arabia does not mean that we shy away from raising legitimate human rights concerns," Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Foreign Office, Tobias Ellwood, told parliament.
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A travel advisory from Britain's Foreign Office reported incidents at four separate locations in Almaty, adding that Kazakh authorities had now raised the security threat level to red -- its highest level.
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All the biggest beasts continue to pace up and down in the same cages: Philip Hammond at the Treasury, Amber Rudd at the Home Office, Boris Johnson at the Foreign Office.
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Mrs May should move him to a role where his ebullient personality might be an asset rather than a liability—perhaps business secretary—and put the Foreign Office in safer hands.
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British government updates advice Britain's Foreign Office also updated its guidance Saturday for citizens traveling or based in South Africa, saying there was a high threat of terrorism in the country.
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The UK's foreign office advised against all travel to Jammu and Kashmir with the exceptions of travel by air to Jammu and within the city, and within the region of Ladakh.
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To put the counter-argument, it's spending its 2% of GDP on defence, it is an international aid superpower, Osborne has stopped the haemorrhage of funds out of the Foreign Office.
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So instead of the Foreign Office babbling on about "influence", which is never actually cashed and spent on anything useful, we'd be able to develop things which would change the world.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson is expected to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday to discuss bilateral and regional issues, a UK Foreign Office official said on Saturday.
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A Foreign Office source later said Johnson had held a "very constructive" phone call with her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, who has called on the minister to visit his wife in jail.
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After the British foreign office raised its level of alert to advise against all but essential travel, UK tour operator Thomas Cook started evacuating nearly 1,000 holidaymakers by air on Wednesday.
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But according to the British Foreign Office, Mauritius is considered "one of the most business-friendly countries in Africa" as a result of its political stability, good governance and independent judiciary.
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And having spent much of his career in Westminster bashing Brussels, William Hague attracted Eurosceptic accusations that he had "gone native" during his four years at the (institutionally Europhile) Foreign Office.
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Making matters tougher for the businesses, the Foreign Office in Britain has issued an advisory for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender travelers going to the two states based on the laws.
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British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called for the probe on Friday after a phone call with Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, the Foreign Office in London said in a statement.
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" The British Foreign Office said on Wednesday that despite progress in fighting the Islamic State, "much remains to be done and we must not lose sight of the threat they pose.
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But Mr Stewart is also a worshipper of British institutions, whose CV includes working as a tutor to Princes William and Harry and serving in the army and the Foreign Office.
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The Daily Mail reported on Friday that Johnson had cast the French as "turds" while foreign minister and that the Foreign Office had begged the BBC not to air the remark.
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The Foreign Office said in a statement that the representative of Vietnam's intelligence agencies in Germany had been declared "persona non grata" and ordered to leave the country within 48 hours.
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Bilateral trade between Vietnam and Germany was $10.3 billion over the last year, and Germany is Vietnam's principal trading partner in the European Union, Germany's Foreign Office says on its website.
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" He added that BRF had presented a strong technical defense to the government, paving the way for Brazil's foreign office and Agriculture Ministry to send "a firm reply to the Chinese.
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According to The Times, the stolen data revealed the private login details of 1,000 British members of Parliament and parliamentary staff, 7,000 police employees and more than 1,000 Foreign Office officials.
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United Kingdom Britain had planned to bring British citizens in Wuhan back to the United Kingdom on Thursday but had to delay the flight, a UK Foreign Office spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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CNN emails and phone calls to the UK Foreign Office requesting comment on the rendition at Diego Garcia and the expulsion of the people of the Chagos Islands were not returned.
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The hack was probably by the Russians, given the Scotland-based Institute&aposs focus on studying Russian state military and counterintelligence services, and its longstanding ties to the UK Foreign Office.
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LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - Iran has broken the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal and must immediately stop and reverse its activities, a spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office said on Sunday.
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" Related: The Year the Whole World Got Involved in Syria A UK Foreign Office (FCO) spokesman said the government was examining the content of the video, which he called "Daesh propaganda.
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"Indian deputy high commissioner was summoned for demarche in line with Foreign Minister's briefing of today and warned against any misadventure," Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal said in a Tweet.
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Under British protocol, a cabinet minister would normally organize meetings through the foreign office and be accompanied by officials, and visits with Israelis would typically be balanced with meetings with Palestinians.
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" A UK Foreign Office spokeswoman said she could not discuss specific details, saying: "We are supporting a British woman in relation to this case and will remain in contact with her family.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Foreign Secretary met China's special envoy on Afghan affairs on Monday, a foreign office spokesman said, a day after Islamabad canceled a scheduled visit by a top U.S. official.
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"As CNN noted, British officials are also wary of the situation, with Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan stating that their "first priority" is to safeguard Assange's health, "which we think is deteriorating.
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Pakistan's foreign office said it had summoned Syed Abdul Nasir Yousafi, deputy head of mission at Afghanistan's embassy in Islamabad, on Wednesday to voice concern about Jamaat-ur-Ahrar "sanctuaries" in Afghanistan.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Germany has indefinitely postponed talks on development assistance to Congo after President Joseph Kabila stayed in power despite his mandate expiring this week, the German foreign office said on Wednesday.
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Another star of the right is Daniel Hannan, a Member of European Parliament and founder of the Institute of Free Trade, which Boris Johnson launched in the Foreign Office on September 27th.
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Others were refused because they were soldiers and thus legally interned as prisoners of war, or because the Foreign Office deemed them to have experienced a case of suffering, but not persecution.
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Foreign policy experts and officials have said the trip, made at the request of the British foreign office, represented a soft power push, which may help both sides further their diplomatic aims.
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Britain's Foreign Office stressed that Egypt proposed and drafted the measure's language, it added, but the U.K. "engaged with" the text as it is one of the Security Council's five permanent members.
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LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) - Britain summoned the Iranian Charge d'Affaires in London after Friday's seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the British Foreign Office said on Saturday.
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Britain's Foreign Office has said that it was in contact with Abraham-Joseph's attorneys and that it only got involved in such cases if the person involved was a British passport holder.
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The Foreign Office legal team, for example, whose head later said that it was the first and only time in his 30 years of service that his advice had not been taken.
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It has even provided additional money to the BBC World Service, which used to be funded by the Foreign Office and then only by the BBC, again raising questions about government interference.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Office said on Monday it was concerned about the escalation of violence between protesters and police in Hong Kong and urged both sides to find a way forward.
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Britain's Foreign Office advises against all travel within six miles of the Syrian border, and all but essential travel to the remaining areas of Sirnak, Mardin, Sanlurfa, Gaziantep, Kilis and Hatay provinces.
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Meeting with British government official Two months before the presidential election, a British government official met with Papadopoulos for a "working level meeting," a British foreign office spokesperson said in a statement.
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But Burt, the former Foreign Office minister, said he would focus on pressing Boris Johnson to secure a deal that won the support of parliament and would not endorse any alternative plan.
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He took first-class honors in Persian and Arabic at Oxford, and during his career at the Foreign Office, he had shown sensitivity to the emergence of nationalism in the Middle East.
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"We continue to raise our strong concerns about British prisoners in Iran, including Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, at the highest levels in both London and Tehran," a spokeswoman for Britain's Foreign Office said.
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"UK support for a settlement of the Cyprus issue remains steadfast and the UK will continue to be represented during the Conference on Cyprus in Switzerland," a British Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
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British nationals could still leave Italy, Europe's worst-affected country, without any restriction but the Foreign Office cautioned travelers to check flight details as airline schedules were also affected by the outbreak.
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This year, the foreign office offered Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe British diplomatic protection, raising her case to the level of a legal dispute between Britain and Iran, rather than a simple consular issue.
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Hong Kong (CNN)The United Kingdom Foreign Office is "extremely concerned" by reports that a British Consulate staff member in Hong Kong has been detained in mainland China for over 10 days.
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"That is our priority and we continue to raise Simon's case repeatedly in China, Hong Kong and London and have sought to make contact with Simon himself," the foreign office spokesperson added.
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But the officials at the British Foreign Office apparently determined that Papadopoulos was not a major figure in the Trump campaign and did not stay in touch with him, the Post reported.
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"Pakistan had consistently raised the lack of progress and the subsequent, concerted attempts by India to exonerate the perpetrators of this heinous terrorist act," the Pakistani foreign office said in a statement.
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"If as we suspect is highly likely the Russian state was responsible, this would be further reckless behavior which threatens the international community and requires an international response," the Foreign Office said.
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LONDON, March 2 (Reuters) - Britain, Germany and France have offered a 5 million-euro ($5.6 million) package to Iran to help fight coronavirus in the country, Britain's Foreign Office said on Monday.
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British nationals could still leave Italy, Europe's worst-affected country, without any restriction but the Foreign Office cautioned travellers to check flight details as airline schedules were also affected by the outbreak.
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The country's foreign office said the severance came in response to Assange's continued interference in the US election campaign, as WikiLeaks continued to publish hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign advisor John Podesta.
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The Foreign Office later announced that those with dual citizenship would only be affected by the ban if traveling to the U.S. from one of the seven banned countries, according to the BBC.
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"They both spoke frankly about the obstacles in the relationship, including the Foreign Secretary's concerns about the consular cases of British-Iranian dual nationals," a British Foreign Office spokeswoman said in a statement.
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A spokesman for the Foreign Office said the ambassador will reiterate Britain's support for Gibraltar's seizure of the ship, which was accused of bringing oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions.
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Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua received Khalilzad and the two led "delegation-level talks", with security, defense, and diplomatic officials from both countries attending, foreign office spokesman Mohammad Faisal said on social network Twitter.
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France's foreign office on Saturday issued new travel advice for its citizens due to the coronavirus outbreak, saying it did not recommend traveling to China unless there was an "imperative" reason to go.
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The Foreign Office has been hollowed out thanks to a combination of confusion about Britain's role in the world and desperate virtue-signalling (spending 0.7% of GDP on the Department for International Development).
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That includes the departments for aid, trade, defence, finance, interior (migration) and leaving the EU. To avoid fragmentation, the Foreign Office should co-ordinate international policy, as the Treasury does domestic economic policy.
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"In both meetings the Foreign Secretary discussed the full range of regional and bilateral issues, including banking matters and our concerns about the consular cases of dual nationals," the Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
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Just when it should be preparing for a post-Brexit "Global Britain", the Foreign Office finds itself fighting fires both at home and in relations with the countries it most needs to cultivate.
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"The UK would strongly support Zimbabwe's re-entry and a new Zimbabwe that is committed to political and economic reform that works for all its people," the Foreign Office said in a statement.
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This week she summoned home the international-development secretary, Priti Patel, who resigned after improperly and secretly meeting senior Israeli officials, apparently without telling either the Foreign Office or Mrs May in advance.
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It opens with Jones (played with sincerity and conviction by James Norton) presciently explaining the danger of Germany's National Socialist party to Lloyd George, his boss at the Foreign Office, and his colleagues.
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A spokesman for the British Foreign office confirmed the Israeli ambassador had apologized, and said it was clear the comments did not reflect the views of the embassy or the government of Israel.
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He combines a suspiciously privileged background (Eton, Oxford and the Foreign Office, cloak-and-dagger branch) with an even more suspicious taste for ideas (he has taught at Harvard and published four books).
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"The Afghan government had requested that a high-level delegation would like to visit Pakistan with a message from the Afghan president," Pakistan's foreign office spokesman, Mohammad Faisal, said in a Twitter message.
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"The team from The Hague will meet with officials from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the police to discuss the process for collecting samples, including environmental ones," Britain's Foreign Office said.
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A Foreign Office source said on Saturday under Italian laws Sea-Watch 3 would be seized, adding it faced a fine of 20,000 euros ($22,700) which, if not paid, could reach 50,000 euros.
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Indian television channels reported on Tuesday that India and Pakistan had exchanged fire across the heavily militarized frontier, but Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria said no shot had been fired by Pakistan.
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Theresa May eventually took the top job, Gove was sacked from government, and Johnson entered the gilded halls of the Foreign Office - an appointment by May that caused consternation in some European capitals.
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"I've been shocked by the degree to which I find corruption pandemic in the world today," he said at the conference, which was at Lancaster House, a mansion used by Britain's Foreign Office.
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Simon McDonald, the head of the British Foreign Office, said it was the first time in his nearly four-decade career that a head of state refused to work with a British ambassador.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan summoned India's deputy high commissioner in Islamabad on Monday after four Pakistani soldiers were killed in shelling by Indian forces in the disputed Kashmir region, the Pakistani foreign office said.
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"We're not scared 'cause we're English," said Sandra Jallow, a 61-year-old carer from Gillingham, who ignored the foreign office warnings and is staying put until her flight leaves on February 2.
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He told The Times of London that the interrogators offered him leniency early in his detention if he agreed to steal documents from the British Foreign Office and give them to the Emiratis.
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The Foreign Office updated its travel advice on Wednesday after Prime Minister Theresa May said Russia was behind the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter with nerve agent, and expelled 23 diplomats.
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"We are concerned that North Korea has conducted a further set of short range ballistic missile tests, another clear violation of UN Security Council Resolutions," the UK Foreign Office said in a statement.
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Pakistan's Foreign Office summoned an Afghan diplomat on Saturday to account for what it said was firing into Pakistan by militants in Afghanistan, a spokesman for Pakistan's foreign ministry said in a statement.
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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius had also called for the immediate release of the journalists, while the British Foreign Office said it was "urgently looking into reports" about the detention of a UK national.
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LONDON (Reuters) - It is a decision for the Bank of England whether to give Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro access to gold reserves it holds, British junior foreign office minister Alan Duncan said on Monday.
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On Tuesday, that same Foreign Office issued a statement advising all British nationals to leave China and said that it would work to evacuate any of its citizens from Wuhan or the Hubei province.
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However, according to the German Federal Foreign Office, Germany remains the EU's largest donor of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and the third-largest bilateral donor, after the US, based on the latest OECD figures.
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Thus, just when it should be preparing for a post-Brexit "Global Britain", the Foreign Office finds itself fighting fires both at home and in relations with the countries it most needs to cultivate.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Four British citizens have been arrested by Chinese authorities in eastern Jiangsu province, the UK Foreign Office said Friday, two days Chinese police announced a drug raid there involving 16 foreigners.
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"I summoned the North Korean Ambassador to the Foreign Office to make clear to him our condemnation of this latest ballistic missile test," Minister for Asia and Pacific Mark Field said in a statement.
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LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - Turkey should maintain its democratic institutions and the rule of law in the wake of a failed coup last week, British Foreign Office junior minister Alan Duncan said on Tuesday.
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Britain's Foreign Office also said on Saturday it was considering allowing visits under consular access terms to Yulia Skripal, who is recovering in hospital against all expectations and is no longer in critical condition.
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And it is more transparent: Publish What You Fund, a charity that campaigns for aid transparency, rates DFID as very good, the Foreign Office as poor and the Ministry of Defence as very poor.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Boris Johnson threw Britain's ambassador to Washington "under the bus" when he refused to back the envoy in his row with Donald Trump, junior Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan said on Wednesday.
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Last week, the Saudi-led coalition agreed to the evacuation of wounded Houthi fighters from Yemen, the British Foreign Office said, hailing it as a breakthrough toward getting a new round of peace talks.
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In London, there was rapid turnover in key ministries, and the government sidelined the Foreign Office while creating two new ministries, one for negotiations with the EU and one for negotiations with third countries.
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" A Foreign Office source put it more bluntly to the Mirror: "The next PM publicly throws this country's representative to the wolves to feed the ego of a fickle child in the White House.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan will release 360 Indian prisoners this month, the foreign office said on Friday, as the nuclear-armed neighbors scale back from a confrontation that prompted world powers to urge restraint.
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Britain, for its part, released a report on GRU cyberattacks that disclosed an attempted hack on the Foreign Office and gave more evidence of GRU involvement in the leak of Democratic emails in 2016.
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"We therefore advise British travellers in Spain to contact their tour operator or airline as soon as possible, to arrange their return journey home before this date," a spokesman for the foreign office said.
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"Due to heightened political tensions between the UK and Russia, you should be aware of the possibility of anti-British sentiment or harassment at this time," the Foreign Office said in a travel advisory.
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The UK Foreign Office has also confirmed that the cables are real, though it tried to distance May's government from them, saying they didn't necessarily reflect the views of the government or its ministers.
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Mr. Duncan, the Foreign Office minister who resigned, pushed for an emergency vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday to test whether Mr. Johnson could command the support of a majority of lawmakers.
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"The Foreign Office also confirms that Germany has encouraged other European Union members to impose similar measures following months of the Cambodian government's crackdown on media outlets, NGOs and the political opposition," she said.
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Britain's Foreign Office urged UK tourists in Tajikistan, particularly those hiking or cycling in its south, "to exercise extreme caution and vigilance during their visit", citing "the first incident of this kind in Tajikistan".
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Mr. Masot was particularly eager to target Alan Duncan, a minister in the Foreign Office who has been critical of Israel and its settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, a sensitive issue in British politics.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is concerned by the implications of U.S. President Donald Trump's decision not to recertify an international agreement on Iran's nuclear program, junior foreign office minister Alistair Burt told parliament on Monday.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council will meet on Wednesday afternoon to be briefed on the investigation into the nerve agent attack in Britain, United Nations diplomats and the British Foreign Office said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Jerusalem should ultimately be the shared capital of Israeli and Palestinian states, British foreign minister Boris Johnson told his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Malki on Monday, a statement from Britain's foreign office said.
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CNBC has asked the U.K. Foreign Office for further detail on what kind of restrictions it could impose on Saudi Arabia and has asked for further detail on an EU global human rights sanctions regime.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has raised its concerns about human rights in Saudi Arabia with authorities there following the execution of 47 men including a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric, a Foreign Office minister said on Tuesday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign office on Saturday issued new travel advice for its citizens due to the coronavirus outbreak, saying it did not recommend traveling to China unless there was an "imperative" reason to go.
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"We remain deeply concerned about a British citizen missing from Hong Kong with four colleagues and have raised this at the highest levels," a spokesman for the Foreign Office said when asked about the case.
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He does not believe that his alignment with a hateful group should disqualify him from serving his country: the show jumps forward to his attempts to gain employment in the foreign office a decade later.
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North Korean state media has not announced Ri's appointment but North Korea's embassy in Britain informed the British Foreign Office of his appointment in a note dated May 16, and seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
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LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Britain and Argentina have agreed to work together towards removing measures restricting the oil and gas industry, shipping and fishing around the disputed Falkland Islands, Britain's Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
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"India rejects the irresponsible and preposterous statement by the foreign minister of Pakistan with a clear objective of whipping up war hysteria in the region," a spokesman for India's foreign office said in a statement.
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George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign foreign policy advisor who pleaded guilty to lying about his contacts with Russians, met with a British Foreign Office official two months before the U.S. election, the BBC reports.
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" A UK Foreign Office spokesperson told Motherboard in an email, "We are in contact with the local authorities in Las Vegas following the arrest of a British man, and are providing support to his family.
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"Pakistan does not draw any distinction between any terrorists and we have taken up the fight against terrorism and the terrorist elements within Pakistan," Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria told reporters in Islamabad on Thursday.
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"The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary have both raised all our ongoing consular cases with their counterparts in Tehran, most recently at the UN General Assembly in September," the Foreign Office said in an email.
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LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) - Britain summoned North Korea's ambassador to condemn the country's latest missile launch, the Foreign Office said on Thursday, calling on Pyongyang to give up its pursuit of nuclear and ballistic missiles.
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The Pakistan government has yet to issue a formal response, though on Monday, US Ambassador David Hale was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to meet with senior foreign office officials, a US Embassy spokesman confirmed.
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Lord Ricketts, former head of the Foreign Office, wrote in a letter to The Times that this controversy leaves the Queen in "a very difficult position," forced to welcome someone her country largely disapproves of.
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For example, Britain's foreign office said it had been informed by the U.S. government that travel restrictions did not apply to people traveling from the United Kingdom regardless of their nationality or place of birth.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's new ambassador to the United States must be the best person for the long term interests of the relationship between the two countries, junior Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan said on Thursday.
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"Pakistan has decided that 360 Indian prisoners – having breakup of 355 fishermen and five civilians, who have completed their term of sentence, will be released," Mohammad Faisal, spokesman for the Pakistan Foreign Office, told reporters.
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"The UK has no doubt as to our sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which has been under continuous British sovereignty since 1814," Britain's Foreign Office said in a statement on Nov. 5.
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The ambassador lodged a complaint with the British Foreign Office, saying the hunger strike was in breach of Article 22 of the Vienna Convention protecting the running of diplomatic missions, The Times of London reported.
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"That is what concerns me: none of us really know what Boris stands for," said Michael Stephens, a scholar at the Royal United Services Institute who has worked under Mr. Johnson in the Foreign Office.
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Mr. Obama was asked about the laws at a news conference in London with Prime Minister David Cameron, after the United Kingdom's Foreign Office advised travelers to those states about limitations the laws might impose.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan is likely to visit Saudi Arabia and Iran, the foreign office in Islamabad said on Thursday, weeks after Islamabad said Washington had asked it to mediate with Tehran.
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"The possibility of a visit of the prime minister to Saudi Arabia and Iran is on the cards and I will update you as things unfold," foreign office spokesman, Mohammad Fasisal, told a news briefing.
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Footage posted online by broadcaster ITV showed foreign office minister Mark Field grappling with one of the women and holding her by the back of her neck as he marched her out of the room.
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The Foreign Office advised any Britons in Sri Lanka to follow the advice of local security authorities, to keep a low profile and avoid crowded public places, and to avoid traveling during periods of curfew.
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"India rejects the irresponsible and preposterous statement by the foreign minister of Pakistan with a clear objective of whipping up war hysteria in the region," a spokesman for India's foreign office said in a statement.
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Britain's Foreign Office said it was extremely concerned about reports that a Hong Kong staff member had been detained in mainland China, but there was no immediate suggestion that there was any link to the protests.
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Mr. Raab told Parliament that the day after the crash the United States Embassy in London informed the Foreign Office that the wife of an Air Force base employee had been involved in a traffic accident.
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In her vivid account of her bid to ascertain the real origins of the Zinoviev epistle, Gill Bennett, formerly chief historian of the British Foreign Office (FCO), provides many fascinating new details of this tangled episode.
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Staff at all levels of the Foreign Office are being diverted to work on Brexit, and immigration officers at British airports are scrutinising passports and visas more aggressively than usual, claim writers at the book festival.
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Britain has invited independent technical experts from the international chemical weapons watchdog to travel to the UK early next week to independently confirm the identity of the nerve agent, the British Foreign Office said on Friday.
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The Foreign Office said Johnson would host a meeting of foreign ministers from eight countries, including Estonia, Sweden and Latvia, on Monday to discuss issues including Russia, NATO and defense co-operation after Britain's EU exit.
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The chief of protocol is sometimes the first American with whom foreign diplomats ever speak at length when they go to the State Department to present their documentation from their foreign office making them an ambassador.
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Pakistan summoned the deputy head of the Afghan embassy in Islamabad to protest against the raid, the Foreign Office said on Monday, urging Afghanistan to crack down on militants operating on its side of the border.
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Earlier this year, Britain's Foreign Office sold its four-hectare embassy compound in the city centre, which it had retained for 96 years, for 420 million pounds ($547.13 million), the biggest land sale in Thai history.
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"We can only maintain sovereign powers in the New Territories up to 21983 in any case and the rest of the territory is not viable on its own," a 21984 UK Foreign Office memo warned Thatcher.
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" Asked for its response to the latest development, the UK Foreign Office said: "We will continue to approach each case in a way that we judge is most likely to secure the outcome we all want.
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LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Britain is concerned by the implications of U.S. President Donald Trump's decision not to recertify an international agreement on Iran's nuclear programme, junior foreign office minister Alistair Burt told parliament on Monday.
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Nuclear agreement "During nearly an hour of talks with President Rouhani, both spoke forthrightly about the obstacles in the relationship and agreed on the need to make progress in all areas," the Foreign Office statement said.
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Russian ambassador Alexander Yakovenko, summoned to the Foreign Office, was given until the end of Tuesday to explain what happened or face what May said were "much more extensive" measures against the $13 trillion Russian economy.
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According to the LSE, a Foreign Office official told an academic at the School that only UK passport holders could do consultancy work on a Brexit project being worked on by the LSE for the government.
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Mr. Sands, who grew up in Malaysia, went to Oxford, earned a degree in public administration from Harvard, and then worked in Britain's foreign office and as a McKinsey & Co. management consultant before joining the bank.
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Such matters are technically in the hands of the Royal Visits Committee and attended by representatives of the prime minister's office, the Cabinet Office, the Department for International Trade, the Foreign Office and the royal household.
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In "The Souvenir," Byrne shimmers as a shy and uncomfortably upper-class filmmaker in early 1980s London who falls for Anthony (Tom Burke), a dandyish underling in the Foreign Office who is also a heroin addict.
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LONDON — It is a punishing coda to an already awful ordeal: British women who survive forced marriages abroad are rescued with help from the Foreign Office, only to have to repay the government for their escape.
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LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - Britain's foreign office on Monday advised all travelling Britons to return home immediately, saying the coronavirus pandemic was limiting international travel and causing the closure of some air routes and land borders.
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"We will not stand by and allow Iran -- or anyone -- to bypass vital EU sanctions on a regime that has deployed chemical weapons against its own people," a UK Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement.
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Britain's foreign office confirmed that Johnson had been hoaxed and said the perpetrator was "childish", while a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said an investigation was under way "to make sure this doesn't happen again".
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The contracts with were with the Ministry of Defence between 2014-2015, the Home Office (interior ministry) in 2009 and the Foreign Office in 2008-2009, the spokesman told reporters, adding there are no current contracts.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Office issued an alert warning British citizens in the Nice area in France to follow the instructions of the French authorities after a Bastille Day attack killed 73 in the Riviera city.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington later this month, its foreign office said on Thursday, a visit that could help to ease tensions between the two countries.
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Foreign Office minister Andrew Murrison pressed Iran for the "urgent and unconditional release" of Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Sunday, during a visit to Iran to discuss the situation in the Middle East, his ministerial area of responsibility.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A junior foreign office minister has been suspended pending an investigation after grabbing a female demonstrator by the neck and pushing her when a climate-change protest interrupted a speech by Britain's finance minister.
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The Foreign Office says that the Porton Down assessment forms only one part of the intelligence picture, and said it had deleted the tweet because it had truncated the information and did not reflect it accurately.
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"Pursuant to the decision of the International Court of Justice, Pakistan provided consular access on 02 September, 2019 to India for Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav, Indian spy, serving Indian Naval officer," a Pakistani foreign office statement said.
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"We would like the Aramco share option to be issued in the United Kingdom and we will continue to suggest the City would be the best place for it," junior foreign office minister Alistair Burt told parliament.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan summoned India's deputy head of mission to Islamabad on Friday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Pakistan of involvement in a suicide attack that killed 44 policemen in Kashmir, a foreign office official said.
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"The Chinese special envoy lauded Pakistan's contribution and sacrifices made in the fight against terrorism ... he said Pakistan's efforts toward eliminating the scourge of terrorism should be fully recognized by the international community," the foreign office said.
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"I wrote to the foreign office and said 'listen can you please remind cabinet ministers that the government's position is that the government has no doubt that Nazanin was there on holiday'," Ratcliffe said of Gove's comments.
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It may be that, rather than charting a radical new course, Britain finds itself bleating from the sidelines, the Foreign Office reduced to little more than an NGO, says Thomas Raines of Chatham House, a think-tank.
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In the best traditions of the British Foreign Office, May will be briefed up to the eyeballs about her interlocutor, about what can be discerned of his policies and what she should try to extract from him.
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He said he was "not backing anyone at the moment" in the Conservative leadership contest, although his friends say he would like to continue at the Treasury or move to the Foreign Office if offered the chance.
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On Sunday, Pakistan's foreign office announced that it had postponed a visit by a U.S. acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice Wells to discuss Washington's new Afghan policy, but at the time did not provide a reason.
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The resignation of Alan Duncan, a junior foreign office minister, underlines the strength of feeling in the governing Conservative Party and parliament against a no-deal Brexit that many businesses say would be catastrophic for the economy.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan plans talks with Afghanistan and the United Nations refugee agency to move longtime Afghan refugees to camps at home, the foreign office said on Thursday, after the numbers of those returning plunged this year.
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" However, Euro-sceptics were quick to criticize the Royal's comments, with the leader of right-wing party UKIP Nigel Farage tweeting, "Clear that Prince William has been used by our Foreign Office and the pro-EU establishment.
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Senior officials from the four countries will meet in Islamabad at 0500 GMT on Monday, Pakistan's foreign office said in a statement on Sunday, in what they hope will be a first step towards resuming stalled negotiations.
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" Britain's Foreign Office tells travelers that attempted terrorist attacks are "very likely" in a number of European countries, including Belgium, France and Germany, although the British government acknowledges that the threat of attack at home is "severe.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Middle East minister Andrew Murrison will visit Iran on Sunday for "frank and constructive" talks, the Foreign Office said, amid escalating tension between Tehran and Washington after the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone.
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Mark Field was suspended as a junior Foreign Office minister last month pending a government investigation into the incident when he grabbed a female climate change demonstrator by the neck and marched her out of the room.
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"Our priority today is looking after our staff in Russia and assisting those that will return to the UK," the British Foreign Office said in a statement Saturday reported by Reuters, as the diplomatic staff leaves Moscow.
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Pakistan summoned the Afghan charge d'affaires in Islamabad to protest against the killing of consular official Nayyar Iqbal Rana on Monday near his residence in the eastern city of Jalalabad, Pakistan's foreign office said in a statement.
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A spokeswoman for the British Foreign Office, or FCO, declined to directly address the row but said when asked for comment that it may require security clearance and that it sought the best advice regardless of nationality.
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The Guardian reported that the statement came in response to a question about a travel advisory that the U.K. Foreign Office had issued to LGBTQ tourists, warning them against visiting the states of North Carolina and Mississippi.
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"In the end, the material raised more questions than it definitively answered," she wrote in "Beyond the Foreign Office Papers: The Making of an International Historian," an autobiographical essay published in 2017 in the International History Review.
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Speaking to diplomats and experts at the Foreign Office in London, Johnson called for better engagement with Muslim populations worldwide and argued that blaming Western intervention for the rise of Islamist extremism played into the jihadi narrative.
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LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab travels to Brussels on Tuesday to discuss with France and Germany the crisis sparked by the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, the British Foreign Office said.
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"We are very concerned that Ben Rogers, a UK national, was denied entry into Hong Kong on 11 October in absolute disregard of the 'one country, two systems' principle," Foreign Office minister Mark Field said in parliament.
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Senior Foreign Office official Jane Marriott said Tunisia was rated as having a "high" risk even before the earlier Tunis attack and travel advice had been adjusted the following day to say that "further attacks are possible".
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"I would be surprised if she gets anything out of the E.U. this week, apart from expressions of good will," said Simon Fraser, former head of Britain's foreign office, now managing partner at Flint Global, a consultancy.
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"Whereas the Foreign Office rightly expects that adult Britons who receive consular assistance will, in general, pay for their own travel home, victims of forced marriage may have endured particular suffering," Mr. Hunt said in his letter.
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The news agency said a spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the allegations, and Thae could not be reached in South Korea, where he is under government protection.
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"Our staff are in contact with the lawyer of a British man following his detention in the USA," a spokesman for the British foreign office said in a statement in response to questions about the rapper's arrest.
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