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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, more commonly known as the Foreign Office or the FCO, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad.
		The Commonwealth Office had been created only in 1966, by the merger of the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Colonial Office, and the Commonwealth Relations Office had been formed by the merger of the Dominions Office and the India Office in 1947—with the Dominions Office having been split from the Colonial Office in 1925.
		The Foreign Office was formed in March 1782 by combining the Southern and Northern Departments, each of which covered both foreign and domestic affairs in their respective geographical parts of the Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Office (793 words)

	Smoking Gun? UK Foreign Office Official's Resignation Letter Reveals that Attorney General Did Change His Mind on ...
		The damning revelation is contained in the resignation letter of Elizabeth Wilmshurst, a legal adviser at the Foreign Office, in which she said the war would be a "crime of aggression".
		During her tenure, Ms Wilmshurst led the UK delegation to set up the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, served as legal counselor to the UK's mission to the UN, and gave evidence for the Foreign Office to the House of Commons International Development Committee on the legality of sanctions.
		She resigned in March 2003 after defying her political superiors in the Foreign Office by stating her belief that joining the US invasion of Iraq would constitute a violation of international law.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0324-02.htm (1378 words)

	UK Foreign Office Recruiters Work Gay Pride Event
		The Telegraph - UK Gay Pride, which took place in London yesterday, is now a recruiting ground for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office...
		Their mission was to show the Foreign Office's commitment to "diversity".
		Jaz, 35, and a member of the Foreign Office for the past nine years, was forthright.
	www.rense.com /general39/foree.htm (638 words)

	Disarmament Diplomacy: - UK Foreign Office: Statements on Arms Trade
		Answer (Foreign Secretary): 'The Government is committed to the maintenance of a strong defence industry which is a strategic part of our industrial base, as well as of our defence effort.
		The UK is represented on the Panel, and is contributing strongly to the Panel's efforts to increase global transparency in arms exports.
		The UK's aims for the Review are to encourage increased participation by UN member States, broaden the scope of the Register by including military holdings and procurement from national production on the same basis as imports and exports.
	www.acronym.org.uk /dd/dd17/17arms.htm (2374 words)

	UK Foreign Office Withdraws 'Andorra Solution' File On Gibraltar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		According to reports in the Gibraltarian media, the UK Foreign Office has withdrawn files from the Public Record Office which contain suggestions for an 'Andorra solution' to the Gibraltar problem, prompting wild speculation as to the meaning of the move.
		Gibraltar news service, Panorama, has suggested that the Foreign Office has withdrawn the file - dated in 1971, soon after the total frontier closure imposed by the Franco regime, and titled 'Possible Andorran Solution to the Problem of Gibraltar' - because of its political sensitivity during the ongoing negotiations between the UK and Spain.
		The newspaper suggests that the Foreign Office may fear that the file will upset the Spanish Government, who are keen to leave open a path to sole sovereignty over the Rock, despite the British insistence on joint sovereignty.
	www.investorsoffshore.com /asp/story/storyinv.asp?storyname=7611 (604 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> Spotlight -> War on Iraq -> UK Foreign Office legal adviser resigns over Iraq
		The Foreign Office's deputy legal adviser Elizabeth Wilmhurst, "was understood to be unhappy with the government's official line that it has sufficient basis for war against Iraq under (existing) UN resolutions", the 'Guardian' reported on March 22.
		A Foreign Office spokesman also said "a legal advisor has decided to leave over the last few days", but refused to disclose the reason, the paper said.
		Her resignation will be an "embarrassment" to Premier Tony Blair, as well as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and raises new doubts about the legal basis for the war, the 'Guardian' said.
	news.indiainfo.com /spotlight/usiraqwar/22resign.html (233 words)

	EU-Turkey relations and Cyprus debated at UK Foreign Office Searching for a new NATO secretary-general Popeye missiles ...
		Turkey's Foreign Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Faruk Logoglu met with U.K. Foreign Office Minister Joyce Quin and U.K. Special Representative to Cyprus Sir David Hannay in London on Monday to debate the issue of EU-Turkey relations as well as a new initiative on Cyprus, a Foreign Office official told the Turkish Daily News.
		A spokesperson from the Foreign Office said the meeting had been projected some time ago but was not achieved due to the officials' busy schedules.
		An Foreign Office official said they were expecting a push for a solution on Cyprus this coming autumn and added that the Cyprus issue was one of the top issues debated during Lagoglu's visit.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=12782 (2086 words)

	UK to take up Hicks freedom bid \| NEWS.com.au
		But the court action did bring about a commitment that the Home Office will this Friday transfer the case to the Foreign Office, which will then act for Hicks in the same way it did for all other Britons in US military custody at Guantanamo Bay.
		"The Foreign and Commonwealth Office accepts it would be appropriate for the secretary of state to approach consideration of that question on the footing that she is dealing with the case of someone entitled to be registered as a British citizen."
		The Home Office argued, and today's judgment accepted, that it had "pressed strongly" for access to Hicks in Guantanamo Bay so it could deliver the oath needed before registration, yet had been blocked in its attempts.
	www.news.com.au /story/0,10117,19478092-1702,00.html?from=rss (537 words)

	EJP \| News \| UK \| British foreign office angers Israel
		A leaked British foreign office report accusing Israel of rushing to annex East Jerusalem has attracted the ire of the Israeli government.
		The foreign office officials claimed that Ariel Sharon’s policy of not giving up Jerusalem could be driving local Palestinians to support radical terror organisations.
		The foreign office also condemned the controversial West Bank security barrier as an attempt by the Israelis to take Palestinian land and create a border.
	www.ejpress.org /article/news/uk/4362 (489 words)

	ei: Anti-war activists block UK Foreign Office in London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Foreign Office was targeted as a department that is entirely complicit in the ongoing wars, occupations and injustice abroad.
		At 8am activists arrived at the Foreign Office and unravelled an enormous banner that spanned the width of the road and impressively dominated the blockade.
		In minutes the front door of the Foreign Office was blocked as individuals stood arm in arm in an uncompromising blockade.
	electronicintifada.net /v2/article5603.shtml (1099 words)

	The Observer \| UK News \| Foreign Office quizzed Tim Spicer over coup plot
		Britain's most notorious mercenary, Colonel Tim Spicer, was called into the Foreign Office to discuss the alleged coup in Equatorial Guinea more than a month before the illegal putsch attempt, The Observer can reveal today.
		Spicer was quizzed by a senior Foreign Office official in early February, after the government received intelligence reports on 29 January detailing preparations for the planned coup in the oil-rich west African state.
		On Wednesday Straw said: 'On 29 January his year the Foreign Office received an intelligence report of preparations for a possible coup in Equatorial Guinea.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1366901,00.html (735 words)

	UK Foreign Office: It was Iraq \| World War 4 Report
		Despite repeated denials by Prime Minister Tony Blair that the Iraq war made the UK a target for terrorists, a letter from Michael Jay, the Foreign Office permanent under-secretary, to the cabinet secretary, Sir Andrew Turnbull—obtained by te UK Observer—makes the connection clear.
		Al Muhajiroon, formed by Omar Bakri Mohammed, the radical preacher who fled the UK after the July 7 bombings, was a recruiting organization for young Islamic militants in Britain, authorities say.
		It says the UK is now viewed as a "crusader state," on a par with the US as a potential target.
	www.ww4report.com /node/1001 (547 words)

	UK Foreign Office Lawyers Warn: Support for Bush Military Action Would Be Illegal
		Foreign Office lawyers have formally advised Jack Straw that it would be illegal under international law for Britain to support any US-led military action against Iran.
		Sources within the Foreign Office say there is an express desire that this time their legal advice is heard and acted upon.
		It is thought their advice stretched to the use of British military advisers, UK airspace and even the dangers of Tony Blair expressing support which could be taken as legitimising a US-led attack without the express authority of the United Nations.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines06/0423-06.htm (899 words)

	News from the USIA Washington File
		A Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) press release was made available by the UK Presidency of the European Union and distributed at a White House Joint Press Briefing conducted February 5 by the President's Official Spokesman and the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman.
		The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman said at the joint press briefing that Prime Minister Blair and President Clinton agreed on an Iraq strategy "that can be summed up as educate, diplomatize, and prepare." The FCO paper is an important element in the education strategy.
		The Foreign Office have produced the paper in response to strong Parliamentary and public interest in Iraq's existing WMD capability and the efforts of the international community to destroy Saddam Hussein's stocks and prevent him from developing his weapons programmes further.
	www.fas.org /news/iraq/1998/02/06/98020601_wpo.html (1113 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| UK Politics \| Foreign Office visits terror suspects
		Foreign Office officials have delivered mail to UK terror suspects being held at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay.
		The group were on a visit to confirm the identity and nationality of two British inmates transferred to the Cuban base in May.
		While the UK contingent met the suspected Taleban and al-Qaeda prisoners individually, US officials observed the interviews.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/2043451.stm (331 words)

	The Observer \| UK News \| Foreign Office failed tsunami victims
		The Foreign Office was accused last night of failing Britons abroad as details of its treatment of victims of the Asian tsunami were laid bare by The Observer.
		The Foreign Office said it had 'apologised unreservedly' to one survivor, Michael Holland, son-in-law of the film director Lord Attenborough, whose wife, mother and daughter died in the Boxing Day disaster last year.
		Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, faces a parliamentary grilling next month over the care given to survivors and the future of consular services, supposedly the first port of call for Britons in trouble abroad.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1567468,00.html (344 words)

	UK Foreign Office to take up Hicks freedom bid - World - smh.com.au
		The UK Foreign Office is to begin the process of potentially freeing Australian terror suspect David Hicks from Guantanamo Bay.
		But the court action did bring about a commitment that the Home Office will transfer the case to the Foreign Office, which will then act for Hicks in the same way it did for all other Britons in US military custody at Guantanamo Bay.
		The Home Office argued, and the judgment accepted, that it had "pressed strongly" for access to Hicks in Guantanamo Bay so it could deliver the oath needed before registration, yet had been blocked in its attempts.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/uk-foreign-office-to-take-up-hicks-freedom-bid/2006/06/15/1149964639076.html (625 words)

	Maghreb Arabe Presse: Morocco, valued partner of the UK, Foreign Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		London, June 7 - The UK government on Wednesday hailed the cooperation ties binding Rabat and London, noting that Morocco is a "valued partner of the UK."
		"Morocco is a valued partner of the UK, and we share many common aims and interests," said Dr Kim Howells, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, in a statement sent to MAP bureau in London.
		Morocco and the UK agreed to establish an annual UK/Morocco Ministerial Dialogue Forum during a work visit last February to Morocco by the then Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw.
	www.map.ma /eng/sections/politics/morocco_valued_part/view (333 words)

	Russians Reveal Major UK Spy Plot Against Russia
		The UK Foreign Office said it was "concerned and surprised", and denied any improper conduct with Russian NGOs.
		The UK embassy in Moscow has refused to comment, but the UK Foreign Office in London issued a statement.
		The Foreign Office said it was well known that the UK government had given financial support to projects implemented by Russian NGOs in the field of human rights and civil society.
	www.rense.com /general69/rrus.htm (446 words)

	UK Foreign Office Minister's Letter of Support to UK Falun Gong Association \| Clearharmony - Falundafa in Europe
		Robin Cook, when Foreign Secretary, pressed Chinese Foreign Minister, Tang Jiaxuan, in New York on 12 September 2000 for swift action to improve respect for human rights in China.
		The Chinese typically respond along the lines that the movement is an "[Jiang Zemin government's slanderous term omitted] " which seeks to brainwash its followers and is a danger to the state.
		More recently, Audrey Glover, Head of the UK Delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights, visited China in July this year and called on the Chinese authorities to cease the use of administrative detention, a system used against Falun Gong adherents, which allows for detention without trial.
	www.clearharmony.net /articles/200109/1205.html (591 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Foreign Office 'unrelentingly pro-Palestinian' says Israel
		Israel has reacted angrily to a confidential Foreign Office document accusing it of illegally expanding Jewish settlements and routing the West Bank barrier to prevent east Jerusalem from becoming the Palestinian capital.
		Officials described the document, drafted for an EU foreign ministers meeting earlier this week, as "anti-Israeli" and said it was further evidence the Foreign Office is "unrelentingly pro-Palestinian".
		In September the Middle East minister, Kim Howells, shocked UK diplomats when the former chair of Labour Friends of Israel told the Jerusalem Post that rocket and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip were a "measured" and "proportionate" response to Palestinian mortar attacks on Israel.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1651249,00.html (507 words)

	JURIST - Paper Chase: UK Foreign Office takes over Hicks Guantanamo release case
		Jaime Jansen at 11:42 AM ET [JURIST] The UK Foreign Office [official website] on Friday took control of the case of Australian David Hicks [JURIST news archive], an accused Taliban member who has been detained at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] for over four years.
		The UK High Court has ruled that Britain should grant citizenship [JURIST report] to Hicks because Hicks' mother is a British citizen, but this week denied an order mandating the UK Home Office [official website] to grant Hicks immediate citizenship.
		Hicks' lawyer Stephen Grosz believes that UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will have to push for Hicks' release because Hicks is one of ten Guantanamo detainees awaiting trial by a military commission [JURIST news archive], a process which the UK government has publicly condemned.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /paperchase/2006/06/uk-foreign-office-takes-over-hicks.php (392 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Home
		The purpose of the FCO is to work for UK interests in a safe, just and prosperous world.
		The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has launched travel advice pages for cricket fans heading to Australia for the Ashes this November and to the Caribbean in March 2007 for the International Cricket Council World Cup.
		UK Trade & Investment - The Government organisation helping international businesses realise their potential.
	www.fco.gov.uk (308 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: UK: Foreign Office's chief adviser on Islamic affairs has jihadist ties
		Leaked documents show that since joining the Foreign Office Ali has argued for Qaradawi to be allowed into Britain and played a part in sending Sharif Hasan al-Banna, president of the UMS, to Islamic conferences in Indonesia and Nigeria at taxpayers’ expense.
		There is basically a war going on inside the Foreign Office, between Islamist friendly Arabists and those who want this appeasement to stop.
		The truth is coming out, not just about the Foreign Office, the Home Office and its treasonous policy of allowing dangerous terrorists and criminals into the country.
	www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/012432.php (1124 words)

	National Union of Journalists : UK government support for Gongadze campaign
		UK foreign office minister Mike O'Brien has pledged to step up pressure both on the Ukrainian government and in European institutions for an independent inquiry into the killing of journalist Georgy Gongadze.
		Mike O'Brien told Dear that the UK government had asked Ukraine about the progress of investigations into the Gongadze case at a meeting between foreign ministers on July 11.
		He also agreed that the UK would weigh in behind plans for a hearing on the case during the next sitting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in September in Strasbourg.
	www.nuj.org.uk /inner.php?docid=358 (582 words)

	Guatemala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The CIA codename for the coup was Operation PBSUCCESS, its second successful overthrow of a foreign government.
		The subsequent military rule, beginning with dictator Carlos Castillo Armas led to over 30 years of civil war that, from 1960, led to the death an estimated 200,000 Guatemalan civilians.
		The signing of the peace accords ended the decades-long Civil War, removing a major obstacle to foreign investment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guatemala (2107 words)

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