The Ambassador of Finland, HE Mr Pekka Huhtaniemi, spoke on 'Features of Finland's foreign policy' at the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council, in central London today.
Rarely has any sporting event got under way under the shadow of such relentlessly negative coverage as today’s Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. It’s almost as if a deliberate attempt were being made to jeopardise the competition. These systematic attacks are part of a pattern. For the last 13 years there has been a tendency to view the Commonwealth as little better than a historical artefact – useless, corrupt and worthy only of contempt.
His Excellency Dr. Emil Brix, Ambassador of Austria, spoke about Austrian issues and the importance of the UK to Austrian foreign affairs, to the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council today.
The devastating floods in Pakistan have affected more than 20 million people, untold numbers of whom have had their homes and livelihoods obliterated in this unfolding tragedy. In the first 20 days of the charity appeal to help the victims of the floods, 300,000 British people donated £33 million, alongside the £64 million given by Britain as a nation through the Department for International Development.
On Tuesday, 13th July, 2010, Sir John attended the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council Dinner in London. During the question period which followed Sir John’s speech, he was asked to comment on the new Coalition Government:
Dennis Waters, Chairman CPF and Treasurer CFCC, The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH - Guest Speaker and Patron CFCC, Sir Ronald Halstead CBE, Chairman CFCC.
Sir Ron Halstead, Melissa Crawshay-Williams, Elizabeth Hallett and Dennis Waters: Officers of CFCC, reported that this year's Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council summer diplomatic garden party was successful.
HE James R Wright, High Commissioner for Canada, spoke to the CONSERVATIVE FOREIGN & COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL at The Jubilee Room, Westminster Hall, London.
The Committee are delighted to announce that Jo Johnson MP has agreed to be our new Deputy Chairman, replacing Jacqui Lait MP who retired at the last Election.
The Ambassador of Switzerland, HE Alexis P Lautenberg, gave the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council a brief foreign and European policy outline from the Swiss point of view as a non-EU member, at the Swiss Ambassador's Residence in London.
