The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), commonly called the Foreign Office, is a department of the British Government.

In 1904, he joined the British Foreign Office and became the youngest vice consul in British India.

The British Foreign Office claimed at the time that the Chagos Islands had no settled population.

The British Foreign Office has often used the excuse that resettling the Chagossians would be prohibitively expensive.

The British position was reported in a letter form the Foreign Office dated 7 January 1948 as follows

The only realistic policy would be to cultivate an acceptable dictator. Of course, the British Foreign Office denied that these thoughts reflected the British government s views.

However, according to a joint press release by the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Government of Gibraltar dated 16 December 2004

The British Foreign Office replied that it could not intervene in the affairs of a private TV channel and the interview was aired as scheduled.

In 1989, I entered the British Foreign Service.

In 1917, control of Aden Protectorate was transferred from the Government of India, which had inherited the British East India Company's interests in various princely states on the strategically important naval route from Europe to India, to the British Foreign Office.

The UK Foreign Office manages the foreign relations of the territory.

British Foreign Minister Kim Howells claimed this was a sale to Norway.

The Minister also stated that the United Kingdom Foreign Office had recently funded the purchase of a boat to help patrol British Virgin Islands waters in order to tackle illegal immigration.28

As part of cost cutting measures across the British Foreign Service, the British Government closed the British High Commission in Nukualofa in March 2006, transferring representation of British interests to the High Commissioner in Fiji.

In 1913 the office opened as the Universities Bureau of the British Empire.

On 16 December 2004, a joint press release had been issued by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government of Gibraltar, continuing the establishment of a new three sided forum for dialogue on Gibraltar separate from the Brussels Process.

36 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Press release, 12 September 2002.

United Kingdom, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Human Rights Annual Report 2004 (HM Stationary Office, 2004), p. 190.

See also References Notes Citations Bibliography Further reading External links Rudolf Hess autopsy results (in Italian) 'The Facts about Rudolf Hess', a transcript of a British Foreign Office report on Rudolf Hess's capture and subsequent interrogations.

He has a son who works in the Afghan Foreign Office.

In July 2004, the Chief Minister responded to a statement made by the Under Secretary of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office regarding the effect of the European Union (EU) Savings Directive on the British Virgin Islands.

Canning, the great British foreign secretary once said, Britain has a common interest, but no common allies.

During World War I, Hahn worked in the German Department for Foreign Affairs, analyzing English newspapers and advising the Foreign Office.

In fact, actual evidence of any such British bias in favor of foreign over domestic investment is weak.

Prior to the opening of the Paris peace conference of 1918, the British Foreign Office commissioned a history of the Congress of Vienna to serve as an example to its own delegates of how to achieve an equally successful peace.

The seminar was supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada and the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.

The representative also noted that communication between Pitcairn and the Pitcairn Office (formerly the Pitcairn Island Administration Office) in Auckland, the Governor's Office in Wellington and the Foreign Commonwealth Office in London had improved.

Between 1943 and 1944 she served as press assistant at Jerusalem's Public Information office, and then moved to the same position at the British Council office in Jerusalem.

1858 was the year when the courageous uprising against the foreign occupation of India was defeated by the British forces.

The attack led the British representative in Rome to protest to the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, but without response.

1989 1995 Seconded to the Office of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In addition, after visits by the French, British, and German foreign ministers, Iran announced a temporary suspension of its enrichment program.

Foreign Policy magazine Middle East editor David Kenner visiting the British WW1 cemetery in Gaza and shares this photograph on Twitter.

After the 1969 coup, Muammar Gaddafi closed American and British bases and partly nationalized foreign oil and commercial interests in Libya.

November After that the British commander in chief over the Egyptian army is killed, Zaghloul is forced to leave office.

An International Programme Office on the International Polar Year was established at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge (United Kingdom).

British protectorate, 1887 1965 On 16 December 1887, the Sultan of the Maldives signed a contract with the British Governor of Ceylon turning the Maldives into a British protected state, thus giving up the islands' sovereignty in matters of foreign policy, but retaining internal self government.

Mr. Thomas Schäfer First Counsellor, Head of Division of Conventional Arms Control Federal Foreign Office Germany

He was, however, an ineffective ruler who was faced with internal unrest and foreign intrusions, particularly by the British and Russian Empires.

The Office noted that, following the reintroduction of granting British citizenship for Saints in 2002, the island had experienced an exodus.

The Foreign Office finally admitted in March 2006 that Britain knew the destination was Israel all along.

In addition to women officers serving as ambassadors or consul generals, a woman occupied the office of Director General to the Foreign Minister's Office from 2000 2002.

Afghanistan has never been a place any foreign army could stay for long. The British were burned there twice (1840 1, 1878 80).

Equipment The heavy equipment and weaponry of the Hellenic Army is mostly of foreign manufacture, from German, French, American, British and Russian suppliers.

A bronze sculpture of the British prime minister had been in the Oval Office of the White House since the 1960 s.