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Ambassador Neil Bush underlines UK support to OSCE/ODIHR’s election observation missions, and their wider work in strengthening democracy in the OSCE region.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Ambassador Neil Bush tells OSCE that recent State Duma elections represented a serious decline in democratic freedoms and fundamental rights in Russia.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the United Nations General Assembly.
The Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will today hold talks with her counterparts from the US, France, China and Russia to discuss the world’s most pressing crises.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office statement on the Russian State Duma elections which took place on 17 to 19 September 2021.
UK Deputy Ambassador Deirdre Brown condemns human rights violations by Russia in illegally annexed Crimea, including the recent detention of 5 Crimean Tatars.
Ambassador Neil Bush says that the UK deplores Russia's decision to unilaterally close the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk.
Between September 2020 and March 2021, SIN Russia in partnership with the NERC Arctic Office designed, developed and delivered the UK-Russia Arctic Science Links webinar series.
The Media Freedom Coalition has released a statement on the treatment of journalists in Crimea.
The UK has sanctioned the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) operatives directly responsible for the Novichok attack on Alexey Navalny.
The UK and US issued a joint statement on the first anniversary of Mr Navalny's poisoning, calling on Russia to comply with the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Ambassador Neil Bush voices UK dismay that Russia’s unwarranted restrictions have prevented ODIHR from effectively observing its elections in September.
Deirdre Brown, Deputy Head of the UK Delegation to the OSCE, marks the 7th anniversary of the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine and the loss of 298 people.
The UK's International Ambassador for Human Rights, Rita French, delivered this statement during the Interactive Dialogue on the oral update of the High Commissioner’s presentation on Ukraine and interim report of Secret…
Перевод на русский язык части доклада Министерства иностранных дел и международного развития "Права человека и демократия 2020", посвященной ситуации в России
Ambassador Neil Bush expresses UK concerns about the shrinking space for independent civil society in Russia.
Ambassador Neil Bush responds to Ambassadors Çevik and Grau and discusses OSCE’s efforts in response to Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine.
Ambassadors and Chargés d’Affaires of Australia, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, the UK, and the US made a joint statement in celebration of Pride month.
The UK's Ambassador to the UN and WTO in Geneva, Simon Manley, delivered this statement during the Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The Foreign Secretary spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.
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