Tag: defence cooperation

22nd March 2021

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by Matt Field

British Diplomat

Partners

Ambassador Matt Field and General Masovic looking at a UK donation to BiH Armed Forces

No country in the modern world can alone face the many security challenges of today – from climate change to pandemics, transnational crime to cyber-attacks. We all need partners and friends. We all need the chance to improve ourselves through cooperation. That’s what a relationship with NATO offers. And the nature of that relationship is […]

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10th September 2017 Skopje, North Macedonia

Charles Garrett

British Ambassador to Macedonia

We need to talk about NATO in Macedonia

I spent Macedonia’s Independence Day climbing Bushava mountain, a stunningly beautiful peak near Krushevo with 360-degree views. I wasn’t alone – some 200 of us had joined up at the invitation of the Ministry of Defence and the NATO Liaison Office in Skopje. In inviting us to Krushevo, they were looking for a different way […]

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24th January 2013 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

The future of the EU and the UK’s relationship with it

A European Flag and the Union Jack hang in front of the Justus Lipsius, the European Union's headquarters building in Brussels. GERARD CERLES/AFP/Getty Images

There is a lot happening in the world, and I wanted to talk today a bit about our support to France on Mali, and then a bit about Britain and Europe. Britain has fully supported the French military operation in Mali from the start. We entirely share France’s analysis that we can not allow Mali […]

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29th October 2012 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

Our cooperation on crisis management

UK-France naval joint exercise Corsican Lion, October 2012

I wanted to talk to you this week about Franco-British cooperation on crisis management. I had the good fortune to go at the end of last week to the joint naval exercises held off Toulon, in the Mediterranean. This is all part of a process launched at the Lancaster House talks in 2010, where we […]

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