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Kara Justine Owen CVO, CMG (born 1971) [1] is a senior British civil servant [2] and the current High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Singapore. [3] [4] In April 2024, it was announced that she would be succeeded by Nikesh Mehta in July 2024, and Owen would transfer to another posting in the service.
The high commissioner of the United Kingdom to the Republic of Singapore is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Singapore.. Singapore, previously a British colony, became an internally self-governing state in 1959 and George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk, was appointed commissioner (not high commissioner) for Singapore and South East Asia.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. The office was created on 2 September 2020 through the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID). [ 2 ]
Here is the full list of countries on the Foreign Office’s ‘do not travel’ list to check before you plan a trip. FCDO advises against all travel Afghanistan – “The security situation is ...
The main piece of legislation governing the department's work was the International Development Act 2002, [5] which came into force on 17 June 2002, replacing the Overseas Development and Co-operation Act 1980.
The shadow secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, commonly called the shadow foreign secretary, is a position within the UK official opposition shadow cabinet that deals mainly with issues surrounding the Foreign Office.
The Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation (OCSM), formerly the Stabilisation Unit, is a cross-government unit of the UK government, governed through the National Security Council. [1]
Until 1872, it was the practice of the Foreign Office to seek legal advice from the Law Officers of the Crown and from the Queen's Advocate General.That year, Sir Travers Twiss, the Queen's Advocate resigned, and the office lapsed, though from 1872 to 1886 Sir James Parker Deane discharged the functions of the office in relation to the Foreign Office.