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Foreign Secretary visits South East Asia to usher in “new era” of UK-Indo Pacific security cooperation
Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab is visiting Indonesia and Brunei-Darussalam this week (7-9 April), to forge closer trade and security ties with the two countries while tackling key global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the coup in Myanmar.
It is Dominic Raab’s fourth visit to South East Asia as Foreign Secretary – and first since the publication of the Integrated Review – setting out the growing importance of the Indo-Pacific. Later this year, the UK’s Carrier Strike Group led by the HMS Queen Elizabeth, will make its maiden visit to the region.
April 8, 2021
Aziz Idris
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is visiting Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam this week to forge closer trade and security ties with the two countries while tackling key global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the coup in Myanmar.
It is Raab’s fourth visit to Southeast Asia as Foreign Secretary – and first since the publication of the Integrated Review – setting out the growing importance of the Indo-Pacific. Later this year, the United Kingdom’s (UK) Carrier Strike Group led by the HMS Queen Elizabeth, will make its maiden visit to the region.
In Jakarta, the Raab met Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo and Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi to discuss the growing UK-Indonesia trade partnership now worth USD2.7 billion a year. He also met Health Minister Budi Sadikin where they discussed the importance of international collaboration in pandemic preparedness. In his final meeting in Jakarta, Raab spoke to ASEAN Secreta
HNLMS Evertsen will join the UK Carrier Strike Group HNLMS Evertsen will join the UK Carrier Strike Group Thursday, 01 April 2021 10:33
According to information published by the Royal Navy on April 1, 2021, the Netherlands will be fully integrated into the UK sovereign Carrier Strike Group’s maiden operational deployment later this year, Defence ministers have confirmed.
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Royal Netherlands Navy frigate HNLMS Evertsen will join the UK Carrier Strike Group for the duration of its inaugural deployment – from the North Atlantic, through to the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and on to the Indo-Pacific. The strike group will undertake a range of operations and training with allies and partners, including maritime missions with NATO in the Mediterranean and Coalition operations in the Middle East. As an Air Defence Frigate she will provide vital air defence protection to the Carrier and control air missions from her operations room.
Royal Netherlands Navy frigate to join UK Carrier Strike Group 1 April 2021 (Last Updated April 1st, 2021 17:48)
The UK Government has announced that the Netherlands is participating in the upcoming UK Carrier Strike Group (CSG) maiden operational deployment.
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The UK Government has announced that the Netherlands is participating in the upcoming UK Carrier Strike Group (CSG) maiden operational deployment.
The Netherlands is contributing its De Zeven Provinciën-class guided missile frigate HNLMS Evertsen (F805) for the duration of the deployment.
It will join a detachment of US Marine Corps F35 Lightning II jets and the US Navy’s Flight I Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG-68).
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