British Senior Minister of State visits Tashkent
The Rt Hon Baroness Warsi, Senior Minister of State at British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, paid an official visit to Uzbekistan .
Baroness Warsi with Uzbek students
The Rt Hon Baroness Warsi, Senior Minister of State at British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, paid an official visit to Uzbekistan from 11 to 12 June 2013. The purpose of the visit was primarily to enhance the bilateral relations between the UK and Uzbekistan, and to engage in detailed aspects of the political relationship, covering regional security, commercial and human rights issues. During the visit Baroness Warsi met high-level Uzbek officials including Mr Rustam Azimov, First Vice Prime Minister – Minister of Finance, Mr Abdulaziz Kamilov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Major-General Victor Makhmudov, First Deputy Minister of Defence, Dr Elmira Basitkhanova, Vice Prime Minister – Chair of the Women’s Committee, and Senator Safaev, Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. The Minister also held productive meetings with representatives of civil society, members of the international community, British business representatives working in Uzbekistan and Uzbek students – participants of Model G8 Summit organized by the British Embassy in April 2013.
This was Baroness Warsi’s first visit to Uzbekistan as Senior Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Other recent senior visitors include the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, in February 2012, and Baroness Warsi as Cabinet Minister without Portfolio in April 2012. Baroness Warsi was appointed Senior Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Minister for Faith and Communities at the Department for Communities and Local Government in September 2012. She was previously Chairman of the Conservative Party and is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. The Minister is responsible for: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Central Asian states; human rights; UN, OIC, International Organisations and the International Criminal Court; all FCO business in the House of Lords.
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