News story

This week at the Foreign Office

A look at the work of the Foreign Office and its embassies overseas this week.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Foreign Secretary William Hague said that the lessening of violence in Syria is a 鈥渇ragile step towards peace鈥� that :

鈥淚 urge the Assad regime to implement fully its undertakings to the Joint Arab League and UN Special Envoy on Syria, including withdrawing troops and weaponry from residential areas. 皇冠体育app Syrian government has a record of failing to keep its promises. It has the opportunity to change that now: it should seize it.鈥�

G8 Foreign Ministers discussed the situation in Syria when they . Also on the agenda was stability and security in Afghanistan and peaceful mean of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Prime Minister David Cameron is in Burma today as part of a four-day trade tour of Japan and South East Asia.

皇冠体育app E3+3 group will meet in Istanbul for talks with Iran on Saturday. Speaking ahead of the meeting, Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said that the .

Read the Foreign Office Minister鈥檚 blog:

Also this week:

Updates to this page

Published 13 April 2012