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New figures reveal the full effect of UK sanctions on Russia
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
At the OSCE FSC Security Dialogue, Ambassador Neil Holland speaks about the importance of Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Explanation of vote by UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the Security Council meeting on Ukraine
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Martin Harris was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Ukraine and started in his role in September 2023. Martin joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1991. He was Second Secretary at the UK Delegation to the OSCE in Vienna...
Ambassador Kristín A. Árnadóttir from Iceland, on behalf of 38 OSCE states, invokes OSCE's Moscow Mechanism, tasking experts to review the human rights situation in Russia.
The Prime Minister will urge leaders to join forces to protect Europe’s borders from criminal gangs and face down Russian aggression at the European Political Community [EPC] meeting in Granada, Spain today [Thursday 5th October].
John Lindfield took up his position as British High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Eswatini in July 2019. Before taking up his new position John oversaw business operations throughout Russia for the Department for International Trade (DIT), the UK government’s...
Ian Stubbs (UK delegation to the OSCE) thanks Belgium as OSCE FSC chair for focusing on Russia’s unprovoked, barbaric and illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Ambassador Neil Holland thanks the OSCE’s Special Representative on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings for their work on technology and supply chains, and in response to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announces a ban on services exports, including management consulting, accounting and public relations, to Russia.
Hugh Philpott was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Turkmenistan 2019 to 2021. Curriculum Vitae Full name: Hugh Stanley Philpott OBE Married to: Janine Frederica Philpott Children: 1 2019 - 2021 Ashgabat, Her Majesty’s Ambassador 2015 - 2019 Dushanbe, Her Majesty’s Ambassador...
Ambassador Neil Holland marks the 9th anniversary of the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine and the deaths of 298 people.
Ambassador Barbara Woodward gave a statement at the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine.
G7 foreign ministers and the High Representative of the European Union issued a joint statement on Russia and Ukraine following a meeting at NATO today, 7 April.
The Foreign Secretary has unleashed a new round of sanctions on Kremlin elites and entities providing military equipment such as drones.
Slovak Ambassador to the OSCE, Peter Mišik, highlights that Russia has systematically clamped down on its own people over the last two decades.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin today [Wednesday] to deepen our defence and security cooperation.
Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the Security Council briefing on Ukraine and Biological Weapons
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