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  • Foreign Secretary calls for Gilad Shalit’s immediate release

    Speaking ahead of the fifth anniversary of the kidnap, Foreign Secretary William Hague called for the release of Israeli Staff Sergeant Gilad Shalit.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary’s visit to Afghanistan

    Foreign Secretary William Hague reaffirms the UK’s long-term commitment to Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Office will provide additional funding for the BBC World Service

    The Foreign Secretary has today released a Written Ministerial Statement on the funding for the BBC World Service.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government publishes Afghanistan progress report May 2011

    Foreign Secretary William Hague has updated Parliament on progress in Afghanistan during May.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • British and Afghan forces find Taliban bomb factory

    The haul of pressure plates, explosives and detonators is thought to be one of the biggest found by a joint ISAF and Afghan operation. Troops…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • MPs welcome troops back from Afghanistan

    Some 110 soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade, which deployed to Helmand from October 2010 to April 2011, attended a reception with the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces yesterday.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Number 10 Press Briefing - Afternoon From 22 June 2011

    From the Prime Minister's spokesperson on: SDSR, Libya, DNA and Alcohol.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Number 10 Press Briefing - Morning For 22 June 2011

    From the Prime Minister's spokesperson on: FCO funding of BBC World Service, Libya, Strikes, Afghanistan, Greece and Boris Johnson.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • "A powerful reminder of why the international community is acting to protect the Libyan people"

    Alistair Burt, FCO Minister for Middle East and North Africa spoke to people in the Libya Western Mountains about what they have seen, heard and experienced in the third Eyewitness Libya event.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Minister for the Middle East meets Egyptian political activists

    Minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, today met a group of young, Egyptian activists from across the new political spectrum.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • 5 SCOTS parade throughout Scotland after Helmand tour

    The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (5 SCOTS), are parading through various towns this week to mark their return home following a tough but successful deployment to Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • RAF officer trains first female Afghan helicopter pilots

    The ‘Thunder Lab’ flight school is part of the NATO Air Training Command (Afghanistan) and the training given there is designed to help ease…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Military Chiefs meet in London to discuss Libya

    UK Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir David Richards, hosted his counterparts at the Ministry of Defence in London, where they discussed…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary: “President Assad’s speech today was disappointing and unconvincing"

    The Foreign Secretary William Hague responds to President Assad's speech today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Navy task group heads through Suez

    Following operations off Libya, the Royal Navy's Response Force Task Group has now passed through the Suez Canal in order to conduct exercises with the UK's partners in the Middle East.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Marines chefs feed the front line

    Despite the austere working conditions at Patrol Base Shahzad, in Nad ‘Ali (North), and limited ingredients, the chefs go to great lengths to…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Football legend honours soldiers back from Afghanistan

    Soldiers from 32 Regiment Royal Artillery were hailed as heroes for their work in Afghanistan by one of the players in England's 1966 football World Cup-winning team, Geoff Hurst.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • "A reconciliation and political process led by the Afghan Government is essential"

    Minister Alistair Burt discusses the UK’s position on efforts to reconcile and reintegrate members of the Taliban on the terms set out by the Afghan Government.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • A view from Libya: "a great sense of optimism"

    Foreign Secretary William Hague talked of a "great sense of optimism" among Libyans in Benghazi in his update to Parliament on the Middle East and North Africa.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Britain abroad must temper idealism with pragmatism

    In an interview for the New Statesman, the Archbishop of Canterbury quizzes Foreign Secretary William Hague about Bin Laden, Libya and the role of moral values in foreign policy.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government