UK in Malawi joined over 55 like-minded allies to back the Canadian initiative to enhance international cooperation to end the practice of arbitrary arrests, detentions or sentencing.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab: The practice of arbitrarily detaining individuals as leverage over another government is indefensible and the UK will not tolerate it
The Canadian Arbitrary Declaration seeks to enhance international cooperation and end the practice of arbitrary arrest, detention or sentencing, to exercise leverage over foreign governments.
In a statement issued on Monday by the UK Foreign Commonwealth Development Office , UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says the declaration increases the diplomatic pressure on those who choose to detain foreign and dual nationals with no legal basis.
The foreign ministers of five countries have condemned in the strongest terms the Feb. 15 rocket attack in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, offering their support to the government of Iraq’s investigation into the attack.
At the UN Security Council, the Foreign Secretary proposed a new Resolution on temporary ceasefires and coordinated effort for COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
The ex-CIA spy who fatally collided with Harry Dunn while driving on the wrong side of the road near a British RAF base said today that she wants to bring peace to his family after a judge rejected her bid to have a damages claim moved to the UK.
Lawyers for Anne Sacoolas said they would very much like to find a path forward over the car crash in 2019 which saw the British teenager killed outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.
She had applied to dismiss the US case on the grounds it should be heard in Britain, despite her legal team admitting she would not agree to face trial due to a concern she would not receive fair treatment .