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Great speaking with our people today at my first @FCDOGovUK staff meeting.
I discussed our positive, proactive and patriotic mission to:
📈 Build stronger economic and security ties with allies
🇬🇧 Make the UK safer and more competitive
🌍 Support development around the world
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Met @SMQureshiPTI to discuss shared UK-Pakistan interests including:
🌏 The situation in Afghanistan
🤝 Enhancing 🇬🇧🇵🇰 bilateral ties
🌳 Deepening commitments & efforts towards @COP26
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🇬🇧🇲🇽 Great meeting Mexico City mayor @Claudiashein to discuss:
🤝 Building a stronger economic partnership between Mexico and the UK
📚 Helping girls get a quality education
🌎 @COP26 and the transition to net zero
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Today marks 2,000 days since Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s cruel separation from her family.
She is going through an appalling ordeal. We are working tirelessly to secure her return home to her family.
I pressed Iran yesterday on this and will continue to until she returns home
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🇬🇧🇯🇵 Great to see my good friend @moteging in NYC. Japan is a key partner for #GlobalBritain and together our two island democracies will work on:
👉 Boosting economic & security links among allies 🌎
👉 Ensuring a safe and secure Indo Pacific
👉 Building back better from Covid
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🇬🇧🇮🇷 Important meeting today with Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian. I pressed two issues:
👉 I’m absolutely determined to secure the release of detained British nationals
👉 And I want to bring Iran back to the table on the nuclear deal and return to Vienna talks
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Excellent that we have secured the lifting of the decades long ban on British lamb to the US.
The US is the 2nd largest importer of lamb in the world.
This will bring new opportunities for our farmers and rural communities across 🇬🇧 👇 twitter.com/SkyNews/status…
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🇬🇧🇺🇸 Great to meet @POTUS today with @BorisJohnson on my first overseas visit as Foreign Secretary.
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🇬🇧🇦🇺 The UK and Australia are close friends with a shared belief in democracy and freedom.
Great meeting with @MarisePayne discussing:
🛡️ The AUKUS security & defence partnership
📈 Our fantastic 🇬🇧🇦🇺 trade deal
🌏 Working more closely together in the Indo-Pacific
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🇬🇧🇮🇳 Key meeting with important ally @DrSJaishankar at #UNGA. We are working on:
🤝 Our upcoming trade negotiations
🌏 Ensuring a free and secure Indo Pacific
🏢 Investment in clean infrastructure
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Fascinating to talk geo-politics with the great strategic mind ex US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger.
The 🇬🇧🇺🇸 alliance and our friends and allies are as important now as ever 🌍
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Excellent news for travellers from the UK to the US. Important for our economic recovery, families and trade 🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Read my @Telegraph piece on how we are putting 🇬🇧 at the heart of a network of economic, diplomatic and security partnerships.
This will drive growth and jobs in the UK and across the world and help make us safer. #GlobalBritain 👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/1…
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🇬🇧🇺🇸 are close friends and allies. Great speaking to @SecBlinken on issues including:
🤝Welcoming our new AUKUS partnership 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇺
🇦🇫 Continuing to work together on Afghanistan
🌏Working to deepen trade and security partnerships with our allies
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Great to meet His Highness Crown Prince @MohamedBinZayed
🇬🇧🇦🇪 We celebrated Partnership for the Future, inc. £10bn UAE investment across the UK
🤝 Looked forward to closer trade ties
🌍 Discussed working together on @UN Security Council
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Great to see @IKRPresident Nechirvan Barzani in London. I reassured him of 🇬🇧’s continued commitment to:
🤝 The @coalition in Iraq & the stability of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
🗳️ The upcoming Iraqi elections
📈 Growing UK-KRI trade
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🇬🇧 is committed to a strong and prosperous future for the Commonwealth.
On my first day as Foreign Secretary, I chaired a meeting of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers to discuss vital issues we face:
🤝 boosting trade
💉 building back better from Covid
🌎 tackling climate change
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Today’s landmark 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇺 security partnership reflects the UK’s commitment to deepening ties in the Indo-Pacific. We will work together to promote stability in a region that will become ever more important for the UK’s prosperity and security👇
gov.uk/government/new…
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Delighted to be appointed Foreign Secretary and lead @FCDOGovUK
Looking forward to:
🌎 Working with allies to tackle the greatest global challenges
🌎 Promoting a positive, outward-looking #GlobalBritain
🌎 Ensuring our foreign policy delivers for people across 🇬🇧
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🇬🇧Today @Policy_Exchange I set out the next phase of Britain’s trade strategy, calling on businesses to export more of their quality goods & services overseas.
To seize the opportunities of tomorrow, we need to make exporting the norm for 🇬🇧 business👇
gov.uk/government/spe…
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🇬🇧 Today @Policy_Exchange, I will set out the next phase of the UK's trade strategy.
By moving from defence to offence, the UK is:
🌍Seizing the opportunities ahead
💷Enabling UK businesses to become more competitive
📈Boosting jobs & growth
policyexchange.org.uk/pxevents/brita…
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🇬🇧🇮🇳 Today @PiyushGoyal & I launched trade working groups to lay the groundwork for our forthcoming UK-India trade deal, which will:
✅ Boost access to more than a billion consumers
✅ Bolster our science & tech industries
✅ Support jobs in both countries
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Top visit to @TheGlenmorangie Scotch Whisky Bottling Facility🥃🇬🇧🏴
We talked about how @tradegovuk is working to reduce tariffs on Scotch Whisky through trade agreements across the world:
👉 Australia 🇦🇺
👉 India 🇮🇳
👉 CPTPP
Supporting 40,000 jobs across the UK
#trade=jobs
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. MP for South West Norfolk.