LONDON. KAZINFORM - Kazakhstan’s military reforms and peacekeeping efforts were the main topic of discussion at a webinar hosted by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in the UK and the British-Kazakh Society to mark the 30th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazinform cites the official website of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry.
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February 10, 2021
LONDON: Tory peer Lord Freud has apologised in the House of Lords after being found to have breached the Code of Conduct by seeking to interfere in a legal decision.
Lord Freud – along with five MPs – wrote to senior members of the judiciary raising concerns that a more junior judge was considering publishing character references provided for ex-MP Charlie Elphicke, who was convicted of sex offences.
Lords commissioner for standards Lucy Scott-Moncrieff found there was “an inherent dishonour in Lord Freud choosing to leverage his position as a parliamentarian to seek to influence the trial judge by writing in private to two other senior judges, and in acting carelessly by failing even to consider the constitutional propriety of him doing so”.
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LONDON. KAZINFORM The British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (BGIPU) hosted an online roundtable dedicated to the prospects of expanding the United Kingdom’s cooperation with Central Asian states. Alex Sobel MP, BGIPU Officer, moderated the discussion. Related news
About 20 members of the UK Parliament attended the event, including Colonel Bob Stewart MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Kazakhstan. Ambassadors of Central Asian states to the United Kingdom were among the attendees as well, the Kazakh MFA s press service reports.
Erlan Idrissov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the UK, highlighted that 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other Central Asian states. He stated that over those 30 years, Kazakhstan has proved itself as a reliable partner of the global community. The Kazakh Ambassador also noted that the political refor
Ed Miliband today insisted Labour s shadow attorney general Lord Falconer is very, very sorry after he described the coronavirus pandemic as a gift that keeps on giving for lawyers.