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皇冠体育app Foreign Office鈥檚 primary concern throughout the political unrest in Egypt has been the safety of the approximately 30,000 British nationals.

Speaking about the consular response to the events in Egypt, Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt said:

鈥淚n order to deal with the situation, the FCO responded to developing events by drawing on well-established and tested contingency plans. This included using the FCO鈥檚 crisis centre to pull together a team to co-ordinate our response. 皇冠体育app FCO has produced a short film about this, entitled 鈥淎 Day in the life of managing a crisis鈥�, which shows some of our staff hard at work helping British Nationals:

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In order to manage the crisis the Foreign Office:

• deployed over 50 additional staff to Egypt to reinforce our Embassy

• sent 4 Rapid Deployment Teams from London to Egypt and also mobilised staff from around the region. This enabled us to have a strong presence in all major population centres
• helped more than 2,000 British nationals leave Cairo, in line with our travel advice, and the UK was the first country to have a consular presence at Cairo airport
• helped 237 passengers fly to the UK on two government-funded charter flights, on 3 and 5 February
• deployed 58 members of staff to help more than 6,000 callers who called the Foreign Office鈥檚 dedicated 24 hour Egypt hotline, which was set up for British nationals requiring advice or assistance Speaking about the Foreign Office travel advice for Egypt the Minister said:

鈥溁使谔逵齛pp situation in Egypt remains fluid, and we still advise against all but essential travel to Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor and Suez. 皇冠体育app situation in the Red Sea resorts remains calm, and our travel advice for that area remains unchanged. We will keep this under regular review. 皇冠体育app safety and security of British Nationals remains at the forefront of our minds鈥�