A few days ago I was at the Foreign Office in London with colleagues from other Embassies in the region. We were there to drum up interest in working in our Embassies. Colleagues who have been working on, say, China or South America don't necessarily have much idea of what we deal with in Georgia, or what it is like to live here. It was good to be able to describe how beautiful and interesting Georgia is - and to talk about the lively and committed team of Georgian and British staff at the Embassy. Quite a few people came to ask questions. I hope we may have interested some future colleagues.
Teamwork was the theme of Glenys Kinnock's visit at the end of June. In a single working day, we managed to talk to a range of politicians, take stock of the state of the conflicts, thank the remaining UK secondees at OSCE at the end of their mission, and get out of Tbilisi to see the EU Monitoring Mission in action and visit IDPs. Achieving this needs the whole Embassy working together smoothly, and a great deal of goodwill and practical help from the many people and organisations we work with in Georgia. I'm grateful to all of them.
It's for our partners in Georgia that we have launched a regular newsletter, find out more about what we do, and why - and the opportunities for becoming involved in our work.
Posted at 13:06 13 July 2009 by Denis Keefe | Comments[0]
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