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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) was a UK government department responsible for protecting and promoting British interests worldwide. It managed diplomatic relations, supported British citizens abroad, and worked on international issues such as security and trade. In 2020, it merged with the Department for International Development to form the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
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Saturday, 14 February 2026
Joint Statement by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands on Alexei Navalny's death....
Saturday, 14 February 2026
UK and partners are today?exposing the tragic circumstances surrounding Alexei Navalny's death and have confirmed there was poison found in samples fr...
Friday, 13 February 2026
Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki, UK Chargé d’Affaires to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Syria....
Thursday, 12 February 2026
Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki, UK Chargé d’Affaires to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Yemen....
Thursday, 12 February 2026
Ambassador Holland rejects Russia’s false claims about the OSCE, stressing that it is Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, refusal to engage with OSCE...
Wednesday, 11 February 2026
UK Counsellor, Ankur Narayan, highlights UN and OSCE reports showing Russia’s escalating attacks on civilians across Ukraine, including widespread use...
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Statement by Ambassador Archie Young, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on South Sudan....
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
UK expresses deep concern about rising antisemitism across the OSCE region and calls for concrete steps to realise commitments and protect Jewish com...
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Sudan Core Group Statement for the oral update of the OHCHR on the human rights situation in and around El Fasher, in the context of the ongoing confl...
Monday, 09 February 2026
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong today....
Friday, 06 February 2026
UK Statement at The Gambia’s World Trade Organization Trade Policy Review. Delivered by Kumar Iyer, Ambassador and Permanent Representative for the UK...
Friday, 06 February 2026
The UK government has been supporting more than 1 million Ukrainians affected by the energy crisis this winter....
Thursday, 05 February 2026
Statement by Ambassador Archie Young, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on UN Peacekeeping Operations: ...
Thursday, 05 February 2026
Deputy Ambassador James Ford condemns Russia’s mass strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during severe winter temperatures. These actions show R...
Thursday, 05 February 2026
The UK has imposed new sanctions against 6 individuals fuelling Sudan's war, following the Foreign Secretary's visit to the Sudan-Chad border....
Wednesday, 04 February 2026
Statement by Chris Elmore MP, Minister for Multilateral, Human Rights, Latin America and the Caribbean, at the UN Security Council meeting on counter-...
Wednesday, 04 February 2026
UK Senior Military Advisor, Lt Col Joby Rimmer, highlights Russia’s continued and deliberate disinformation in the OSCE. Russia’s failure to honour ev...
Wednesday, 04 February 2026
Foreign Secretary visited Adré on the Sudanese border in Chad and called for urgent global action to secure a ceasefire....
Wednesday, 04 February 2026
Ms Corin Robertson CMG has been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Japan in succession to Ms Julia Longbottom CMG....
Tuesday, 03 February 2026
Delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Eleanor Sanders, at Australia's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in Geneva....
Monday, 02 February 2026
Sir Christian Turner KCMG has taken up the role of His Majesty’s Ambassador to the United States of America. ...
Monday, 02 February 2026
UK sanctions 10 individuals and one organisation for their role in recent brutality against Iranian protestors. ...
Monday, 02 February 2026
The Russian Ambassador was summoned for a meeting to revoke the accreditation of a Russian diplomat....
Monday, 02 February 2026
Foreign Secretary sets out how she is strengthening FCDO action to tackle illegal migration on her first visit to Africa in the role. ...
Sunday, 01 February 2026
Foreign Secretary statement on the fifth anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar...
Friday, 30 January 2026
Delivered to the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors extraordinary meeting on 30 January 2026...
Thursday, 29 January 2026
Explanation of Vote by Ambassador Archie Young, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Haiti....
Thursday, 29 January 2026
The UK and 23 other countries have invoked the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to launch an expert mission on the deteriorating human rights situation in Georgi...
Thursday, 29 January 2026
UK Counsellor, Ankur Narayan, sets out the escalating human, economic and military costs of Russia’s invasion, explaining why a Russian victory is far...
Thursday, 29 January 2026
The UK and France are launching this private consultation under the Pall Mall Process, an international and multistakeholder initiative to stop the th...