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6th March 2013 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

Celebrating International Women’s Day

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This week on the 8th of March, it’s International Women’s Day, and we are very active in the Embassy in celebrating it. There are two events in particular that I’ve been personally engaged with – and I bring to this a very passionate belief that organisations are better when we have more women in senior […]

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26th November 2012 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

The UK and the EU budget

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

I want to talk to you about two things this week. First of all, the European Union budget. You may have seen in the press last week, in the run up to the European Council at the end of the week, a lot of stories suggesting that Britain was isolated. I saw one headline in […]

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27th September 2012

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Preventing Sexual Violence: A Bold Initiative worth Supporting

On 25 September, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague co-hosted an event at the UN General Assembly alongside Zainab Bangura, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. He spoke about his Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI), launched in London last May. The PSVI aims to strengthen international efforts and co-ordination to prevent and […]

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