Shipping must go green – IMO SG
The IMO can do more to improve safety and security at sea, while ensuring cleaner seas IMO Secretary General Efthimios Mitropoulos has said. In his…
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FCO in squeeze
Tight funding for the FCO risks jeopardising diplomacy overseasand could hamper efforts to improve security at embassies, according to a recent report by lawmakers. The…
High drama in Kampala
Transforming Commonwealth Societies to achieve political, economic and human development is the the theme of the upcoming CHOGM. But it was the political situation of…
UKVisas security breech
An investigation has found that the Foreign Office broke data protection rules by failing to ensure its UK visas website was secure, enabling personal data…
Immigration briefing
With a major overhaul of Britain’s immigration policy due in early 2008, the Consular Corps welcomed the FCO’s Director of Migration to brief consuls on…
Consuls meet new human rights chief
In October Trevor Phillips, the newly-appointed chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission addressed the Consular Corps on the role of the new body…
Canadians are moving
Canada’s High Commission is set to move to a modern, smaller building near to Canada House on Trafalgar Square. Macdonald House on Grosvenor Square, once…
London’s young diplomats feed 60,000 kids
Bernard Hamilton, Young Diplomats in London Coordinator, presented a cheque of €3,000 to Gregory Barrow of the World Food Programme, in the presence of YDL…
Cultural attachés visit Oxford
About 20 Cultural Attachés ventured beyond the M25 to spend a day being inspired in the City of Spires. The Oxford visit formed part of…
Preparing for a post-industrial age
Taking action on climate change makes business sense, commercial attachés heard at an International TradeNet meeting in October. In a speech to an audience of…