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FCO's ministerial meetings, July to September 2018
Updated 19 December 2018
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| Minister | Date | Name of organisation or individual | Purpose of meeting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boris Johnson | Nil return | Nil return | Nil return |
| Jeremy Hunt | 2018-09-04 | Sky News | To discuss foreign policy |
| Jeremy Hunt | 2018-09-05 | Lord Hall, Director General, BBC | To discuss the BBC World Service |
| Jeremy Hunt | 2018-09-06 | Gideon Rachmann | Introductory meeting |
| Jeremy Hunt | 2018-09-06 | Phil Collins, The Times | To discuss foreign policy |
| Jeremy Hunt | 2018-09-10 | Roundtable: Enrico Letta, Head of the Sciences-Po Paris (France) International Affairs School & President of the Jacques Delors Institute (France). Anand Menon, Director, UK in a Changing Europe. Charles Grant, Director, Centre for Europe Reform. Daniela Schwarzer, Director, German Council on Foreign Relations. Guntram Wolff, Directro, Bruegel. Henry Norman, Director, Open Europe. Kalypso Nicolaidis, Professor of International Relations, Oxford University. Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House. | To set out HMG's priorities ahead of the October European Council. |
| Jeremy Hunt | 2018-09-11 | James Landale | To discuss foreign policy |
| Jeremy Hunt | 2018-09-11 | Roger Boyes | To discuss foreign policy |
| Jeremy Hunt | 2018-09-12 | BBC | To discuss foreign policy |
| Jeremy Hunt | 2018-09-13 | Members of the British Rohingya community | To discuss the situation in Burma |
| Alan Duncan | 2018-09-13 | Former Turkish DPM Mehmet Simchek | Update on Turkey |
| Alan Duncan | 2018-09-19 | Media interview in Skopje with a leading independent Serbian daily (DANAS) | To highlight the positive aspects of the bilateral relationship |
| Harriett Baldwin | 2018-07-02 | Philippe Valahu, CEO Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) | To discuss commercial opportunities in Africa |
| Harriett Baldwin | 2018-07-05 | Ben Story (Director Strategic Marketing) and Dr Glenn Kelly (Senior Manager - UK Government Relations), Rolls Royce | To discuss commercial opportunities in Africa |
| Harriett Baldwin | 2018-07-25 | Private Sector Community in Lusaka: Valentine Chitalu, CDC Group Mizinga Melu, MD Barclays Herman Kasekende, MD/CEO Standard Chartered Bank John Patton, CEO British Chamber of Commerce Rebecca Katowa, MD Zambia Sugar Mary Monyau, Country Head, African Development Bank Pamela Nakamba-Kabaso, ZIPAR Chibamba Kanyama – Chevening Scholar, former IMF officer, economist and businessman Simunza Muyangana – Bongo Hive | Discussion of business environment in Zambia, during visit to the country. |
| Harriett Baldwin | 2018-09-10 | Bold Bataar, Chief Executive Energy & Minerals, Rio Tinto | To discuss Africa business opportunities |
| Harriett Baldwin | 2018-09-10 | Anglican Archbishop of Juba | To discuss South Sudan human rights issues |
| Harriett Baldwin | 2018-09-10 | Otumfuo Osei Tutu II (King of the Ashanti people, Ghana) | To discuss Ghana-UK bilateral issues |
| Harriett Baldwin | 2018-09-13 | Sir Richard Lambert (Chairman) and Hartwig Fischer (Director), British Museum | To discuss the work of the British Museum in relation to Africa |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-02 | First Women Peace and Security Steering Board | Discussion of protection and empowerment of women in conflict situations overseas |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-03 | Penal Reform International, Algeria | To hand out certificates of completion of a course |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-03 | Fafa Benzerrouki, President of Algerian National Human Rights Council | To discuss human rights issues in Algeria |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-04 | Mohamed Fali (representative of ahmadiyya community in Algeria); Pastor Haddad (representative of protestant church in Algeria) | Meeting with faith leaders to discuss freedom of religion or belief in Algeria |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-04 | Mme. Virginia Mura, Advocacy Officer, Oxfam; Mme. Meryem Benbrahim, Country Director, Oxfam; M. Hocine Zehouane, President, LADDH (Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights); M. Said Salhi, Vice President and spokesperson, LADDH; M. Moktar Bensaid, President, LADDH; M. Zoheir Ould Eddine, Chairman, Transmos Group; Maître Salah Debouz, human rights lawyer; Maître Mostefa Bouchachi, human rights lawyer; Maître Miloud Brahimi, human rights lawyer; M. Ali Belghit, President, Amnesty International Algeria;Mme. Hassina Oussedik, Director, Amnesty International Algeria | To discuss human rights in Algeria |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-04 | President of Algerian Red Crescent, Saida Benhabyles | To discuss migration issues in Algeria |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-04 | Wissem Missaoui – Beder President; Omezzine Khelifa – Mobdiun Founder; Dr Olfa Lamloum – International Alert Country Manager; Dr Tasnim Chirchi – Director of the Jasmine Foundation; Fakhreddine Louati – Aktis; Michael Ayari – International Crisis Group | Dinner with civil society on de-radicalisation work in Tunisia |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-05 | Meeting with representatives of Commission for Individual Rights and Equality, Bochra Belhadj Hmida; Salwa Hamrouni; Dorra Bouchoucha | To discuss human rights issues in Tunisia |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-05 | Grand Rabbi of Tunis Haim Bittan, Mr Moché Uzan, Mr Mortekhay Uzan | To discuss freedom of religion or belief in Tunisia and visit Grand Synagogue of Tunis |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-05 | Yamina Thabet-President of ATSM; Ramy Khouili (Jamaity); Islem mejri (mawjoudin); Bouhdid Belhedi (Shams) | Meeting with Civil Society in Tunisia |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-06 | Ibrahim Younis, Head of Mission, Medecins Sans Frontieres James Martin, Head of Programme - Maghreb, Danish Refugee Council Katleen Maes, Head of Office, OCHA Alaa Zalzaleh, Associate Protection Officer, UNHCR Antonio Salanga, Senior Programme Development Officer, IOM Maria do Valle Ribeiro, Deputy SRSG | Roundtable with civil society on modern slavery in Libya |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-13 | Amnesty International; Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice; International Bar Association; International Federation for Human Rights; Justice International; Al Haq; Redress; and the Coalition for the ICC | To discuss ICC issues |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-09 | Director of Remembering Srebrenica, Amy Greggs | To discuss initatives to prevent sexual violence in conflict and the work of the charity as well as her experience and other testimonials |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-10 | Nigel Harris, CEO of Flymontserrat | To discuss opportunities and challenges facing Montserrat |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-12 | Tony Brace, Chair of Religious Freedom Subcommittee and Paul Gillies, head of European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses | To discuss the organisation's concerns and reiterate commitment to defending human rights in Russia |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-16 | Feride Rushti, Head of Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture | To discuss support received by survivors of sexual violence in conflict |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-16 | Former President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga | To discuss supporting survivors of sexual violence in conflict |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-16 | Ms. Melinda Reed, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice; Ms. Aurelie Roche-Mair, International Bar Association; Ms. Amal Nassar, International Federation for Human Rights; Mr. Nika Jeiranashvili, Justice International; Ms. Nada Kiswanson, Al Haq; Ms. Julie Bardeche, Redress; Mr. Matthew Cannock, Amnesty International; Ms. Kirsten Meersschaert, Coalition for the ICC; Ms. Margaux Guint, Coalition for the ICC | To discuss human rights |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-17 | Saranda Bogujevci – Member of Parliament and Member of Commission on Human Rights, Gender Equality, Missing Persons and Petitions; Rron Gjinovci – Executive Director, The Organisation for Increasing the Quality of Education (ORCA) | To discuss politics in Kosovo from young peoples’ perspective |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-17 | Naim Ternava, Grant Mufti of Kosovo; Besa Ismaili, Professor at the faculty of Islamic Studies; Dodë Gjergji, Bishop of Kosovo; Don Lush Gjergji, Catholic Priest; Artur Krasniqi, Leader of Kosovo Protestant Evangelical Church; Votim Demiri, Representative of Jewish Community in Kosovo | To discuss ways to end the stigmatisation of survivors of sexual violence in conflict |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-19 | Kirsty McNeil and Martha Mackenzie - Save the Children | To discuss the Safe Schools declaration and the issue of children born of war time rape |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-19 | Tina Ramirez, Hardwired | To discuss Hardwired's report findings on freedom of religion or belief in the MENA Region |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-18 | Bishop Angaelos | To discuss freedom of religion or belief |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-25 | Rev. Dr. Andrew P.W. Bennett, Director - Cardus Religious Freedom Institute | To discuss freedom of religion or belief |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-07-25 | Sanam Anderlini, Co-founder and Executive Director of International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN); Elizabeth Cafferty, Head of Washington DC liaison office, UN Women; Leanne Erdberg, Director of CVE, US Institute of Peace (USIP); Bonnie Jenkins, Head of Women of Color in Peace and Security, State Department; Rahima Kandahari, Director of WPS, State Department; Beverly Kirk, Director of Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative, CSIS; Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security; Kathleen Kuehnast, Director of Gender Policy and Strategy at USIP; Patrick Lynch, Director of Hedayah, Washington DC office; Chantal de jonge Oudraat, Head of Women in International Security (WIIS); Blake Peterson, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Global Women’s Issues, State Department; Alina Romanowski, Principal Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism, State Department; Irfan Saeed, Director of Counter-terrorism, State Department; Adrian Shtuni, Working on CVE in Balkans | Roundtable discussion on women, peace, and security |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-08-07 | James Whiting Executive Director, Malaria No More | To discuss next steps following on from the Malaria Summit and the commitment made by Heads of Government in the CHOGM 2018 communique to halve malaria in the Commonwealth by 2023. |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-08-15 | Fareed Ahmad, Ahmadiyyas; Akeela Ahmed, Muslim Women’s Organisation; Khataza Gondwe, CSW; Sanjay Jagatia, the Hindu Council; Jaghar Singh Gill, Sikh Council | Faith Roundtable on Commonwealth |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-03 | Archbishop of Sudan, Ezekiel Kondo; o Sheikh Gharibullah, leading member of Samaniya sufi order; Monsignor Bert Van Megen, Apostolic Nunicatrue in the Sudan and Eritrea; Professor Abdelrahim Ali (President of Islamic Figh Body); Professor Mohamed Osman Salih (President of Sudan Islamic Scholars Association) | Faith Roundtable |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-03 | Dr Ibrahim Mudawi (human rights campaigner); Nahid Gabrallah (Head of SEEMA NGO (a womens rights NGO that also campaigns on FGM)); Abdelrahman Almahdi (Head of Sudanese Civil Society Network); Amjed Farid (human rights campaigner); Osman Mirghani (Chief Editor of Altayaar newspaper) | Human Rights Roundtable |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-03 | Matthew Hollingworth (WFP rep and country director); Abdullah Fadil (UNICEF rep); Paola Emerson (OCHA humanitarian coordinator); Hideko Hadzialic (UNDEP deputy country director); Elizabeth Tan (UNHCR Country Director) | Dinner for UN Country Team in Sudan |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-03 | African Union/UN hyprid mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Police leadership team; Lieutenant General Leonard Ngondi (UNAMID Force Commander); Jeremiah Kingsley Mamabolo (Joint Special Representative of UNAMID); | Discussion regarding work of UNAMID |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-04 | Meeting with beneficiaries of Darfur Community Peace and Stability Fund | To discuss Darfur Community Peace and Stability Fund |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-04 | ZamZam Internally Displaced Person Camp community leaders | To discuss ZamZam Internally Displaced Person Camp |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-04 | UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Ms Gwi-Yeon Son | To discuss humanitarian issues in Sudan |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-06 | John Morrison, Institute for Business and Human Rights; Anthony Smith, Westminster Foundation for Democracy; Kate Allen, Amnesty International; Marcela Manubens, Unilever; Malcolm Evans, Bristol University; Ben Ward, Human Rights Watch; Alexander Matheou, British Red Cross; Nazila Ghanea, Oxford University; Thomas Hughes, Article 19; Leanne MacMillan, Stonewall | Foreign Secretary's Human Rights Advisory Group |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-13 | The Aga Khan | Brush by meeting in the margins of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's funeral |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-13 | Ms Cherie Blair QC | Brush by meeting in the margins of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's funeral |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-17 | President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer | To discuss the work of the ICRC and UK support to it |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-17 | Lunch with UN Fact Finding Mission on Burma/Myanmar: Marzuki Darusman (Chair); Radhika Coomaraswamy (Member); Christopher Sidoti (Member); Wan-Haw Lee (Secretary) | To discuss the UN Fact Finding Mission's report on Burma |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-19 | Bishop Angaelos | To discuss freedom of religion or belief |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-19 | Professor Asha Kanwar, President & CEO Commonwealth of Learning | To discuss promotion of education in the Commonwealth |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-27 | Dr Simon Adams, Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect GCR2P | To discuss GCR2P issues |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-27 | Ronald Lauder, President of World Jewish Congress | To discuss freedom of religion or belief |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-27 | Prince Zeid, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights | To discuss human rights issues |
| Tariq Ahmad | 2018-09-28 | Edith Lederer of Associated Press | To discuss UN issues |
| Mark Field | 2018-07-03 | Willis Towers Watson | Meeting on Green finance, International Work |
| Mark Field | 2018-07-05 | Carl Hunter | To discuss business in Asia-Pacific |
| Mark Field | 2018-07-11 | Paul Polman | To discuss business in Asia-Pacific |
| Mark Field | 2018-07-12 | Keith Howells, Chairman, Mott MacDonald | To discuss business in Asia-Pacific |
| Mark Field | 2018-07-12 | Ian Wright and Dominic Goudie | To discuss business in Asia-Pacific |
| Mark Field | 2018-07-18 | Premier League roundtable | FCO/Premier League Spot Soft Power roundtable |
| Mark Field | 2018-08-28 | Bas Burger, CEO Global Business and Mark Hughes, President BT Security | To discuss business in Asia-Pacific |
| Mark Field | 2018-09-10 | Henrik Pederson and David Leighton, Association of British Ports | To discuss business in Asia-Pacific |
| Mark Field | 2018-09-11 | International Fund for Animal Welfare | To discuss the Illegal Wildlife Trade |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-07-02 | Open Doors roundtable | Engagement with MENA minorities |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-07-03 | Salman Sheik | Discussion with NGOs working in OPTs |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-07-04 | National Union of Journalists and Palestinian Journalists Syndicates | Discuss media freedom in OPTs |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-07-05 | CEO Relief International | Discussion on refugees support in Middle East region |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-07-11 | Palestine Platform | Discussion with NGOs working in OPTs |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-07-16 | Vatican Co-ordination Group to the Holy Land | Discussion on pastoral meeting to Israel and OPTs |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-07-18 | Mohammed Haykal and other Syrian businessmen | Discuss latest developments in Syria |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-08-01 | Adam Daniels, Chief Commercial Officer, British Airways | Discuss situation in Iran |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-09-06 | Gabrielle Rifkind, Oxford Process | To discuss progress on US-Iran |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-09-11 | Stephen Schneider, AIPAC | To discuss developments in Israel and OPTs |
| Alistair Burt | 2018-09-13 | Julian Weinberg and Oliver McTernan, Forward Thinking | Update on Helsinki Policy Forum |