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This week at the Foreign Office

A look at the work of the Foreign Office and its embassies overseas this week.

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This week the , and chaired meetings of the National Security Council to discuss the situation in Libya as the Qadhafi regime began to lose control of Tripoli.

Peter Millett and Paul Arkwright discussed Libya in their latest blog posts

On Syria the UK called for an in a statement to the UN Human Rights Council. Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne that followed saying that the brutal repression must stop.

Foreign Office Minister after Iran announced that it has started to transfer centrifuges to the Fordow plant at Qom in order to triple its capacity to produce 20% enriched uranium.

The Minister for Africa welcomed President Bashir鈥檚 announcement of a and called on the Sudan People鈥檚 Liberation Movement to follow suit.

The UK Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan to discuss our common national security issues regarding Afghanistan.

And today the Foreign Secretary on a UN building in Abuja, Nigeria.

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Published 26 August 2011