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| | Foreign and Commonwealth Office - encyclopedia article about Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
 | | The FCO was formed in 1968 out of the merger of the short-lived Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Office having been formed only in 1966 by the merger of the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Colonial Office. | | | In 1968, the Foreign Office merged with the Commonwealth Office, to form the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. | | | Dr Pherson is the Minister of State for Trade in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
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| | The Commonwealth Institute |
| | The Institute then was funded almost exclusively by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and it became a Non Departmental Public Body responsible to the FCO. | | | From its foundation in the 19th Century by the UK and Colonial Governments the underlying purpose of the (now) Commonwealth Institute was education and research. | | | Exhibition galleries were established to promote trade and research was undertaken to assist commercial/industrial development and to underpin the Commonwealth Preference trading arrangements. |
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| | Government funding for awards comes from the Department for International Development, which supports awards for developing Commonwealth countries, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which supports awards for other Commonwealth countries. | | | Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme: The scheme is a joint initiative between the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and UK universities, to jointly support scholarships for students from developing Commonwealth countries who would not otherwise be able to study in the United Kingdom. | | | CSFP awards in the United Kingdom are administered by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, a non-Departmental Public Body established by Parliament. |
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| | The Extradition (Designated Commonwealth Countries) (Amendment) Order 2003 |
| | A print version is also available and is published by The Stationery Office Limited as the The Extradition (Designated Commonwealth Countries) (Amendment) Order 2003, ISBN 0110469518. | | | This Order may be cited as the Extradition (Designated Commonwealth Countries) (Amendment) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 19th August 2003. | | | The Extradition (Designated Commonwealth Countries) Order 1991[ 2 ] is amended by removing "South Africa" from Schedule 1 to that Order which lists countries designated for the purposes of section 1(2) of the Extradition Act 1989. |
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| | SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office |
| | Prior to the entering into force of The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the United Kingdom Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad in a special office within the British Embassy (or High Commission), and Commonwealth member states sent High Commissioners to represent their interests in Hong Kong. | | | The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) is the representation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China abroad. | | | The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 (enacted by the UK Parliament) |
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| | www.businessinafrica.net news Commonwealth countries asked to address digital divide |
| | In attendance at the meeting were representatives of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Commonwealth of Learning, the Commonwealth Network for Information Technology, the Government of Malta, Industry Canada, the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Commonwealth Business Council, and a number of observers. | | | The new CTO Chairman indicated that the new CTO's range of interventions in member countries now goes well beyond the contributions of the organisation as recognised in such previous Commonwealth reports as 'A Commonwealth Action Programme for the Digital Divide', 2001 and 'Commonwealth Functional Co-operation: Report of the Committee of the Whole', CHOGM 2003. | | | In 2001, as its contribution to this goal and to the work of the Commonwealth Expert Group on Information Technology established by the Commonwealth High Level Review Group on the Future of the Commonwealth, the CTO published 'Information and Communication Technologies in the Commonwealth', an exhaustive report which facilitated the work of the Group. |
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| | INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH |
| | Treaty Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office--status of multilateral agreements for which the UK is depositary | | | Foreign and Commonwealth Office--the British government department responsible for overseas relations and foreign affairs | | | Foreign Consular Offices in the U.S. Global Issues |
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| | Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles |
| | Vanuatu is a member of the UN, the Commonwealth, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, the ACP and the Non-Aligned Movement, and is also actively seeking membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). | | | Vanuatu does not currently have a diplomatic office in the UK, but maintains an office at the United Nations in New York and in Noumea, New Caledonia. | | | Vanuatu comprises a chain of 83 islands in the South Pacific, stretching 1176 km in a north-south direction between the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. |
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| | The New York Review of Books: Orwell's List |
| | The long-overdue publication of the IRD list also highlights the vital distinction, so often blurred, between Orwell's private notebook and the list he sent to Celia at the Foreign Office. | | | It lay before me in a buff folder on the office table of a senior Foreign Office archivist. | | | Much of its funding came from the "Secret Vote," a governmental appropriation used to fund the secret services and not subject to the usual forms of parliamentary scrutiny. |
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| | Category: United Kingdom > Government > Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) | | | UKvisas is a joint Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office unit which runs the UK 's visa service through British diplomatic Posts overseas. | | | The website explains the Cabinet Office 's role at the centre of government and brings together information from units in the Department. |
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| | Sierra Leone: President: State House: Speeches: AT THE SIERRA LEONE COMMONWEALTH BUSINESS COUNCIL |
| | Regarding conditions and facilities for doing business, it is true that the creation of financial and other specific incentives directed at attracting foreign investors is no substitute for pursuing the appropriate general policy measures, and focussing on the broad objective of encouraging investment. | | | With the newly established United Nations Integrated Office in the country mandated through a Security Council resolution to create "an enabling environment for private investment", private sector investment promotion in the country will continue to be accorded high priority in our economic transformation process. | | | Government is actively streamlining administrative processes and procedures including the easing of business registration requirements and the introduction of a one-stop shop approach to reduce time and monetary costs of doing business in the country. |
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| | Documents Related to the Cold War |
| | Official U.S. State Department report, dated September 1948, titled "The Berlin Crisis: A Report on the Moscow Discussions, 1948." The document is U.S. State Department publication 3298, European and British Commonwealth Series 1. | | | Part I, Collection and Identification of Fission Products of Foreign Origin, prepared by Peter King and N. Friedman, ca. | | | U.S., Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945-1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, |
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| | Tuvalu Human Rights Practices, 1995 |
| | It became independent from the United Kingdom on October 1, 1978, and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. | | | Remittances from Tuvaluans working abroad as well as the sale of commemorative and thematic postage stamps and of fishing licenses to foreign vessels provide additional sources of foreign exchange. | | | The Prime Minister may be removed from office by a parliamentary vote of no confidence. |
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| | Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles |
| | The principal point of contact is Overseas Territories Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Governor's Office (+44 207 008 2696 / otdenquiries@fco.gov.uk), Government Administration Building, Grand Cayman. | | | Cayman Islands have recently become an associate member of CARICOM. | | | In 1959 the islands ceased to be a dependency of Jamaica and became a unit territory within the Federation of the West Indies. |
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| | Travel Advisories Index - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| | Travel advisories are also available from the Foreign Affairs Canada, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the US State Department. | | | Travel Advisories Index - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | | | smartraveller.gov.au - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
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| | Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles |
| | January 2005: Baroness Symons, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office | | | While still heavily dependent on revenues from hydrocarbons the UAE is relatively well insulated from periods of low oil prices due to successful moves towards economic diversification, large foreign exchange reserves and overseas investments. | | | The United Kingdom welcomed an announcement in July 2002 by Shaikh Hamdan bin Zayed, UAE Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Camel Racing Federation, introducing tough new guidelines to outlaw this practice. |
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| | The Country & People of UAE |
| | Foreign & Commonwealth Office Travel information, country advise, latest travel updates.... | | | Emirates Ports Services Management of Ajman Port and Customs.... | | | The indigenous population, Sunni Muslim Arabs, is outnumbered by foreign-born workers, mostly from Asia, originally attracted by the petroleum boom. |
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| | House of Commons Hansard Index for Volume 344 (pt 36) |
| | Vaz, Mr Keith, Minister for Europe, Foreign and Commonwealth Office | | | EC common foreign and security policy 134w, 138w, 940w |
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| | Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Commonwealth Relations Office had been formed by the merger of the Dominions Office and the India Office in 1947, with the Dominions Office having been split from the Colonial Office in 1925. | | | The FCO was formed in 1968 out of the merger of the short-lived Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Office having been formed only in 1966 by the merger of the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Colonial Office. | | | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, more commonly known as the Foreign Office (or the FCO), is the United Kingdom government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad. |
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| | Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The FCO was formed in 1968 out of the merger of the short-lived Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Office having been formed only in 1966 by the merger of the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Colonial Office. | | | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad. | | | The Commonwealth Relations Office had been formed by the merger of the Dominions Office and the India Office in 1947, with the Dominions Office having been split from the Colonial Office in 1925. |
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| | House of Commons - Minutes of Proceedings |
| | Developments in the European Union: Rt Hon Jack Straw, a Member of the House, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and Mr Kim Darroch CMG, Director General EU Policy, and Mr John Sawers CMG, Director General, Political, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, were examined. | | | Developments in the European Union: Rt Hon Jack Straw, a Member of the House, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Mr Kim Darroch, Director General, European Union Policy, and Mr David Frost, Assistant Director, European Union (Internal), Foreign and Commonwealth Office, were examined. | | | Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism: Rt Hon Jack Straw, a Member of the House, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Mr John Buck, Director, Iraq Unit, and Ms Jan Thompson, Head, Afghanistan Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, were examined. |
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| | Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The FCO was formed in 1968 out of the merger of the short-lived Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Office having been formed only in 1966 by the merger of the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Colonial Office. | | | The head of the FCO is the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which is commonly abbreviated to Foreign Secretary. | | | The Foreign Office was formed in March 1782 by combining the Southern and Northern Departments, each of which covered both foreign and domestic affairs in their respective geographical parts of the Kingdom. |
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| | The House of Commons - Foreign Affairs Reports |
| | Corrected transcript of Oral Evidence given by Rt Hon Jack Straw, a Member of the House, Foreign Secretary of State, Mr Tim Barrow, Deputy Political Director and Assistant Director EU External, and Mr David Frost, Deputy Director EU, Foreign and Commonwealth Office: uploaded on 14 March 2006 | | | Uncorrected transcript of Oral Evidence given by Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, a Member of the House, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Mr David Richmond CMG, Director-General, Defence and Intelligence, and Dr Peter Gooderham, Director, Middle East and North Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.: uploaded on 22 March 2006 | | | Uncorrected transcript of Oral Evidence given by Rt Hon Jack Straw, a Member of the House, Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, and Dr David Landsman OBE, Head of Counter-Proliferation Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office: uploaded on 14 February 2006 |
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| | Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The FCO was formed in 1968 out of the merger of the short-lived Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Office having been formed only in 1966 by the merger of the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Colonial Office. | | | The head of the FCO is the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which is commonly abbreviated to Foreign Secretary. | | | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, more commonly known as the Foreign Office (or the FCO), is the United Kingdom government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad. |
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| | FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE FACTS AND INFORMATION |
| | The FCO was formed in 1968 out of the merger of the short-lived Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Office having been formed only in 1966 by the merger of the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Colonial Office. | | | The Commonwealth Relations Office had been formed by the merger of the Dominions Office and the India_Office in 1947, with the Dominions Office having been split from the Colonial Office in 1925. | | | The head of the FCO is the Secretary_of_State_for_Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Affairs, which is commonly abbreviated to Foreign Secretary. |
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| | Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The FCO was formed in 1968 out of the merger of the short-lived Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Office having been formed only in 1966 by the merger of the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Colonial Office. | | | The FCO is headed by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. | | | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs - The Rt Hon. |
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| | CASBAH: Colonial Office and successors: Maps and Plans: Post-1940 Collection |
| | In August 1966 the Colonial and Commonwealth Relations Offices (CRO) were merged into a single Commonwealth Office, and maps from the CRO from that period were added to the collection. | | | Similarly, upon the merger of the Commonwealth and Foreign Offices in October 1968, maps from the Foreign Office were added, and this collection formed the basis of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's map collection. | | | This series therefore includes material which would otherwise be found in the Dominions Office collections (DO) amongst the General Records of the Commonwealth Relations Office, and Records of the General Divisions of the Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office. |
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| | Afghanistan Strategic Intelligence: British Records 1919-1970, contents vol. 4, Archive Editions |
| | Telegram from UK High Commissioner in Pakistan to Commonwealth Relations Office, 16 November 1951, as to Afghan agents; telegram from Kabul to Foreign Office, 24 November 1951, murder of the Pakistan Prime Minister; record of conversation with M. Gholam Mohammed, Chief of Protocol, 5 December 1951 | | | British Embassy, Moscow, to Foreign Office, 29 May 1957; telegram from Moscow to Foreign Office, 31 July 1959; cmmunique issued by the President of the Soviet Union and King of Afghanistan, 30 July 1957; Moscow to Foreign Office, 14 August 1957, reporting on the visit of the King of Afghanistan to the Soviet Union | | | Telegram from Kabul to Foreign office, 31 January 1959, unconfirmed hint of projected missile base to be established by Russia in South West. |
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| | Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, more commonly known as the Foreign Office (or the FCO), is the United Kingdom government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad. | | | The FCO is headed by a cabinet-level minister, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. | | | The Foreign Office was formed in March 1782 by combining the Southern and Northern Departments, each of which covered both foreign and domestic affairs in their respective geographical parts of the Kingdom. |
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