Los padres de Ignacio Echeverría, el héroe del monopatín que falleció en los atentados de Londres de 2017, recogen en su nombre en el Palacio de Buckingham la medalla de Jorge, la condecoración más importante que se puede otorgar a un civil en 🇬🇧 ¡No te olvidaremos Ignacio!
Mañana es mi último día como embajador del Reino Unido en España. Me voy, llevándome conmigo unos recuerdos inolvidables de estos seis maravillosos años, de este increíble país y de sus gentes, y de lo que podemos…
Three years ago, Ignacio Echeverría lost his life protecting others in the London Bridge terrorist attack. A Spaniard. A Londoner. A hero. We will never forget him. RIP Ignacio DEP 🇬🇧🇪🇸
Hoy hace 3 años de los terribles atentados del London Bridge y el Borough Market. Desde
@ukinspain
recordamos emocionados a Ignacio Echeverría el héroe del monopatín que dio su vida por salvar a los demás y a todas las demás víctimas. Todo nuestro apoyo y cariño a sus familias
Honoured to host Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the inspiring leader of the Belarusian democratic opposition and to hear from her the latest on the Belarusian people’s brave struggle for democracy - and against Putin’s war in Ukraine
En el 1 aniversario del atentado del
#LondonBridge
y el
#BoroughMarket
, recordamos a Ignacio Echeverría 🇪🇸 y a todas las demás víctimas. Queremos transmitir todo nuestro apoyo y cariño a sus familias
#LondonUnited
My statement this morning in the UN Human Rights Council, on behalf of over 40 countries, regarding Ethiopia’s expulsion of 7 prominent UN 🇺🇳 officials.
We call on the Ethiopian Government immediately to reverse its decision and allow the 7 to return
Arise, Sir David. Congratulations
@davidnabarro
CBE, knighted by HM The King in His first New Year Honours List for his lifelong contribution to global health, most recently as Special Envoy of
@DrTedros
for Covid-19 Prevention and Response at the
@WHO
#NYHonours
Recent comments by Miloon Kothari, a member of the
@UN_HRC
Israel Commission of Inquiry, questioning Israel’s UN membership and speaking of “the Jewish lobby” controlling social media are unacceptable and offensive.
Antisemitism has absolutely no place in the
@UN
.
So sad to hear of the death of Michael Robinson. A great football player, including for my own beloved
@QPR
, an extraordinary communicator and a true ambassador for 🇪🇸🇮🇪🇬🇧relations. An honour to know him. RIP DEP
#michaelrobinson
⚽️
A year ago today, a dearly loved member of our COVID-19 team, Richard Morris, left his home for a run, never to return. He had joined the then FCO with me, 30 years before. Kind, committed, a true professional, he is much missed, but never forgotten. RIP Richard.
Honoured to be next PermRep to
@wto
@UNGeneva
and other international organisations in Geneva. Excited to build on work of
@JulianWTO_UN
to promote free trade, defend human rights, and secure effective multilateral solutions to our shared global challenges
Hoy es mi último día como embajador del 🇬🇧 en 🇪🇸. Ha sido un verdadero placer representar a mi Reina y a mi país en este fantástico país y gran aliado que es España. Me siento muy orgulloso de lo que mi gran equipo
@ukinspain
ha logrado. El día 18 llegará mi sucesor, Hugh Elliott
We joined the Diplomatic Service together almost 30 years ago. Cherished and admired by all those who came across him, Richard was the most committed of public servants and the gentlest and kindest of men. He is and will be much missed. RIP.
Mi ultimo clase de Español antes de despedirme de este maravilloso país. Gracias a Carmen por su apoyo - y paciencia- durante estos últimos seis años. Mis logros son compartidos peros los errores son míos.
#lifelonglearning
🇪🇸🇬🇧
Reuninme con
@XulioFerreiro
Alcalde de A Coruña para estreitar os lazos comerciais con esta cidade. Máis da metade das exportacións de Galicia a 🇬🇧teñen a súa orixe en A Coruña por mor da importancia dos seus produtos téxtiles
⚫El Athletic Club lamenta el fallecimiento de la leyenda del
@CelticFC
Billy McNeill y se une al dolor de familiares, amigos y de todo el emblemático club.
#AthleticClub
#OneClubMan
Remembering, two years to the day that he left us, our inspiring and cherished colleague and fellow member of the Diplomatic Service class of November 1990, Richard Morris, the model of human kindness. RIP
Felicidades a todos los españoles en el día de su
#FiestaNacional
, el
#12Octubre
#DiadelaHispanidad
🇪🇸 es un país amigo del 🇬🇧 y un aliado clave en la defensa de la seguridad en Europa y en la promoción de nuestros valores en el mundo. 🇪🇸🇬🇧
Feliz
#FiestaNacional
🇪🇸 a nuestros amigos españoles. Tenemos tantos recuerdos tan bonitos de esta día tan especial de un país tan querido por mi y mis compatriotas. Un fuerte abrazo desde Londres.
Very proud of our eldest daughter, Chiara: second graduation of the year, this time just down the lake, at Glion, with a Masters in International Hospitality Business 👩🏻🎓🎉❤️
The human rights situation in Ethiopia is dire.
We need to ensure that all human rights abuses and violations are reported, that we can tackle impunity, and that we provide survivors the support they need and the justice they deserve.
#HRC
🇺🇳 special session on
#Ethiopia
After a year of conflict and
#humanrights
violations in
#Ethiopia
, 🇬🇧 supports today’s
#HRC
Special Session.
An independent monitoring and accountability mechanism is crucial to combat impunity & prevent more atrocities.
@SimonManleyFCDO
🇬🇧 speaking at the
@UN_HRC
earlier👇
The actions of the Sudanese military are a betrayal of the revolution, the transition & the hopes of the Sudanese people.
Along with 47 other countries, we are requesting a Special Session of the UN 🇺🇳 Human Rights Council.
La medalla de Jorge, concedida a título póstumo a Ignacio Echeverría, es la más importante que se puede otorgar a un civil y reconoce actos de extrema valentía. Fue creada por el rey Jorge VI en 1940
It’s hard to capture the extent of our human rights concerns in China in 45 seconds (or even 280 characters), but that’s all we had this morning at China’s Universal Period Review in the Human Rights Council after China tried to pack the room. Read our full 🇬🇧 statement here
Today at
#WHA75
Member States re-elected
@DrTedros
to serve a second five-year term as Director-General of the WHO. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's new mandate officially commences on 16 August 2022.
👉
Hoy hace 4 años de los terribles atentados en London Bridge y Borough Market. Mi recuerdo más emocionado para Ignacio Echeverría,el héroe del monopatín que dio su vida por salvar a los demás, y para las otras víctimas. Todo nuestro apoyo y cariño a sus familias. No os olvidaremos
A day trip to Pakistan 🇵🇰 to discuss the common challenges of
#COVID19
with our Pakistani partners and our 🇬🇧 colleagues in
@ukinpakistan
A virtual visit this time, but the delicious mangos 🥭 from
@ZakariaNafees
&
@PakistaninUK
whetted the appetite for real visits in future 🇵🇰🇬🇧
It’s a wrap. My last day as British Ambassador to Spain and Andorra. So proud to lead such a committed team: 300 people across nine posts working to boost our country’s prosperity, maintain our security, help our most vulnerable tourists and residents, and boost 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇦🇩 relations.
It’s been the greatest honour of my life to serve Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
My team and I express our condolences to His Majesty The King, the Queen Consort and other members of the Royal Family
We thank our Geneva colleagues for their countless condolence messages
Great to be here. Looking forward to working with
@UNGeneva
, partners old and new, and, of course, my fabulous
@UKMissionGeneva
team to find effective solutions to our shared global challenges 🇬🇧🇺🇳🌏
Delighted to welcome HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh to Geneva to attend the Global
#RefugeeForum
meet inspiring refugee women and the senior leadership at
@Refugees
and underline the horror of gender-based violence and the transformative power of educating refugees
Russian attempt to block Ukraine’s request for an urgent debate on the situation in Ukraine soundly defeated by 29 votes to 5. Putin isolated again.
We
#StandWithUkriane
🇺🇦🇺🇳
Dialling into a historic final meeting of the
@foreignoffice
Management Board which ended with poetic tributes from all of us to
@SMcDonaldFCO
after five, transformative years in charge. Thank you, Simon.
Delighted to return to the
@FCDOGovUK
this evening and admire the remodelled Quad, once little more than a car park (including our own car from time to time back in the day, I admit) now a peaceful green oasis in the heart of SW1. Love it💚
Uno de los fugitivos 🇬🇧 más buscados ha sido detenido hoy en Barcelona. Un gran ejemplo de cooperación y collaboration entre nuestros cuerpos y fuerzas de seguridad. Enhorabuena a
@NCA_UK
@metpoliceuk
@policia
@interiorgob
y
@zoidoJI
🇬🇧🇪🇸👏
Emocionado de contar con
@BlasCanto
y
@Sharon_Corr
para nuestra felicitación navideña. Cada view es 1 donación para la recuperación de los niños del hospital la Paz. En la Embajada colaboramos con ellos desde hace + de 7 años ¿Nos ayudas?
#ViewsForCharity
Best team at the
@UN_HRC
National Dress Day, with thanks to our voters.
No national dress, but a tribute to a certain fictional bear 🐻 who’s becomes something of a 🇬🇧 national icon. And, yes, I too kept a marmalade sandwich under my hat.
Españoles y británicos tenemos muchas que nos unen, y más allá de los tópicos, somos amigos y aliados. Disfrutamos de tantas cosas, de nuestras culturas, gastronomías, historias. Estudiamos juntos, aprendemos juntos y trabajamos juntos
#GREATfriends
🇪🇸🇬🇧
Running, along with others from the
@foreignoffice
Coronavirus task force and thousands of colleagues across the globe in
#diplomile
in aid of
@NHSuk
charities and
@UNICEF
Passing our rather long baton to
@ukinmyanmar
🇬🇧🇲🇲 (but it is quite a long way)
So proud of the changing face of British diplomacy, including the increasing number of our (talented and accomplished) female ambassadors around the world
#IWD2021
#womenindiplomacy
Hace un año de esta noche: nuestra cena de despedida en el jardín de la Residencia 🇬🇧 en Madrid.
Como les echamos de menos a nuestros amigos españoles. Un abrazo muy fuerte a todos 💛🇪🇸❤️🇬🇧
As the sun rises over this Red Cross Red Crescent Day, let me pay tribute to the
@icrc
the
@ifrc
and its members, including the
@BritishRedCross
In a time of such devastating conflict and such acute humanitarian need, their role is more vital than ever. Thank you
#BeHumanKind
I joined the then FCO 30 years ago today. The then Mrs Thatcher was in No10, Mikhaïl Gorbachev ruled what was still the USSR, and
@QPR
were in the then First Division. Many things may have changed, but not my pride in serving Queen and Country. Happy anniversary to my cohort 🇬🇧🎂
The sun begins to rise over the Jura mountains on the first day of my 32nd year as a member of HM Diplomatic Service. Greetings to the class of November 1990.
It remains the greatest honour and privilege to serve and represent my Queen and Country 🇬🇧
Standing ovation from the members of the
@UN_HRC
for First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine 🇺🇦
@EmineDzheppar
Spot the difference with the room yesterday, President Putin. Russia is isolated, here as elsewhere
#StandWithUkraine
🇺🇦💪🏽
Almost 35 years since I arrived in the city on my way to study IR at
@YaleMacMillan
🇺🇸 and nearly 30 years since starting as a Third Secretary at
@UKUN_NewYork
🇬🇧🇺🇳 back in the Big 🍎 as our daughter Melissa starts her LLM at
@nyulaw
💜
Hoy es mi santo y, ademas, el mismo día de 2013 llegué en 🇪🇸 como Embajador de Su Majestad. Ha sido el mejor cargo de mi carrera diplomática, un gran honor, y un placer trabajar para reforzar los vínculos entre nuestros dos grandes países - y no me voy, me quedan nueve meses más!
Delighted to make my first in person statement at the
@wto
and on an issue so important to 🇬🇧 business - modernising the global rules for the trade in services through the joint initiative on services domestic regulation. We want a WTO that is back in - and backing - business.
On 7/7, our daughter was on a walk with the FCO Nursery when the bombers struck. I remember the bravery of our emergency services and the stoicism of my fellow Londoners who stepped back on the Tube and buses the day after. Memory. Dignity. Unity. Never forget.
#londonbombings
Seven years ago today. What an honour and pleasure it was to serve my country and work to foster ties with our Spanish and Andorran friends 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇦🇩
Hardly aged a day...
Un placer reunirme con
@perearagones
que encabeza la respuesta de la
@GenCat
al Brexit, para hablar sobre nuestra salida de la 🇪🇺. Vamos a proteger los derechos de los ciudadanos europeos y queremos reforzar nuestros excelentes vínculos comerciales
I hand over
@FCDOGovUK
#COVID19
responsibilities today to
@VijayR_HMG
with my thanks to the countless FCDO staff across the 🇬🇧& 🌎 who have helped bring Brits home, procure PPE for the
@NHSuk
and enable the search for safe and efficacious vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics 🇬🇧
4 years ago Russia used chemical weapons in Salisbury 🇬🇧
Overnight Russia attacked a 🇺🇦nuclear power plant
There seems to be no limit to Putin’s flouting of international law
Today, the
@UN_HRC
by a crushing majority of 35 to 2, stood up for international law & the 🇺🇳 Charter
President Putin went to the trouble of sending his Deputy Foreign Minister to the UN in Geneva today.
But I will not sit in the chamber and listen to his distractions and lies. Nor will our allies.
Together we
#StandWithUkraine
🇺🇦
Ignacio Echeverría es una inspiración para todos. Su gran coraje al enfrentarse a terroristas armados solo con su monopatín, aún a riesgo de su propia vida, demuestra una valentía y una generosidad que recordaremos siempre
Disappointed to see Syria appointed to the
@WHO
Executive Board.
EB members should uphold human rights, not abuse them. It’s time for Syria to protect, not target, health facilities and workers and allow unimpeded access for humanitarian aid, including medical supplies.
It’s a wrap. The 49th session of the UN Rights Council is over. I am so proud of our team in Geneva and our colleagues in the 🇬🇧 and around the globe 🌎 who work tirelessly to uphold the cause of freedom.
Membership of the UN Human Rights Council is a privilege, not a right. Members are meant to “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights”. Not flount those standards in a war of unprovoked agression. Glad to see this decisive action by the UNGA