Firstly I would like to thank the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council for giving me the opportunity to be here this evening, to speak about a subject all of you know is very dear to my heart; and that is the historic relations between the State of Kuwait and the United and Kingdom
Sir Ronald Halstead, CBE, chairman of the CFCC, hosted the annual diplomatic dinner at the Cadogan Hall, Chelsea in association with the Conservative Political Forum of Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservatives chairman, Dennis Waters. The Rt. Hon. The Lord Howe of Aberavon, CH, QC, was Guest of Honour and spoke on "The World Ahead - and Why".
Rehman Chishti MP (former adviser to Ms Bhutto) was delighted to host this annual lecture in parliament, which had key note speeches from: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP (Attorney General) Gerald Howarth (Defence Minister), Sir Peter Tapsell (Father of the House) and High Commissioner of Pakistan Wajid Hasan. In attendance was Ms Bakhtwar Bhutto Zardari, The Ambassadors of Turkey and Tunisia to the United Kingdom, as well as many British parliamentarians.
I would like to thank you for inviting me here tonight and for you being here. It is a great honour for me to speak to such a distinguished audience about the main directions of the foreign policy in Libya.
Thank you, Sir Ronald for giving me this opportunity to speak to the Conservative members of Parliament as a major coalition partner in the Government. Congratulations on the well-deserved electoral victory.
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.
