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The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has today summoned the Chinese Ambassador Zheng Zeguang following allegations of foreign interference on UK soil, contrary to the National Security Act 2023.

• Updated: 14 May 2024

Statement by the UK's Permanent Representative to the WTO and the UN at Dominican Republic's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

• Updated: 14 May 2024

The UK Climate Finance Accelerator Pakistan (CFA) is inviting applications from low-carbon projects helping to combat climate change.

• Updated: 14 May 2024

Legal and technology professionals on opposite sides of the world are set to benefit from bolstered connections between the UK and Australia through the UK Government’s GREAT Legal Services campaign’s latest programme of eve…

• Updated: 13 May 2024

The UK and Ukraine have launched the InnovateUkraine programme, which will support 13 green energy innovation projects in Ukraine with a £16m investment from the UK government.

• Updated: 13 May 2024

This afternoon the Prime Minister spoke to the Amir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.

• Updated: 13 May 2024

Minister for the Indo-Pacific, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, visited Maldives to build closer links on maritime security, climate, and trade.

• Updated: 12 May 2024

The Prime Minister spoke to Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa today. 

• Updated: 10 May 2024

Explanation of vote by Ambassador Barbara Woodward on the General Assembly resolution on Palestinian UN membership, rights and privileges.

• Updated: 10 May 2024

Ms Samantha Job CMG MVO has been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden in succession to Ms Judith Gough CMG.

• Updated: 10 May 2024

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama this morning. 

• Updated: 10 May 2024

Ambassador Holland welcomes the Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and the work of the Mission over the last six months across the three pillars of its mandate.

• Updated: 9 May 2024

International law must remain in lockstep with the changing 21st century world and the needs of citizens or face irrelevance the Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk, will stress to the G7’s justice leaders today (9 May 2024).

• Updated: 9 May 2024

Ambassador Holland calls on Russia to release members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission who have been unlawfully detained in Ukraine for more than two years.

• Updated: 9 May 2024

Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron gave his first major speech in the role at the National Cyber Security Centre.

• Updated: 9 May 2024

The UK government hosted a senior US government delegation for the second United States-UK Strategic Sanctions Dialogue. 

• Updated: 9 May 2024

The Royal Air Force completed its 11th airdrop today, delivering a total of 110 tonnes of aid from 120 parachutes. In this latest airdrop, the UK has provided ready-to-eat meals, water, rice, tinned goods and flour for the p…

• Updated: 9 May 2024

Alison Blackburne has replaced Sarah Montgomery OBE as the UK Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa and Red Sea.

• Updated: 9 May 2024

UK military advisor, Nicholas Aucott, says Russia’s human wave attacks are a grotesque approach that demonstrates the depths to which Putin will go to prop up Russian elite.

• Updated: 8 May 2024

Statement from the UK at Cambodia's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

• Updated: 8 May 2024