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  • Dame Barbara Woodward DCMG OBE speaks to APPG on UN

    • 12/03/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News, Uncategorized
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    Dame Barbara Woodward DCMG OBE, Ambassador for the UK to the United Nations since 2020 spoke to the APPG for the UN.  and leads on security, prosperity, and global development for the UK. She was previously UK Ambassador to China, seeing trade between the UK and China double over that time. Her diplomatic career spans

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  • International Day to Combat Islamophobia 2025

    • 12/03/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News, Uncategorized
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    On 12 March 2025 Amnesty International UK (AIUK) organised a drop-in to brief MPs on their work to fight Islamaphobia. The U.N. General Assembly established the International Day to Combat Islamophobia in 2022, designating March 15 as the day of the celebration. The UK also marks Islamophobia Awareness Month in November, to raise awareness and take collective

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  • APPG Portugal: Meeting with Ambassador for Portugal to the UK

    • 11/03/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News
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    As Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Portugal, I was delighted to host His Excellency Nuno Brito,  Ambassador for Portugal to the UK in  Parliament for a meeting with MPs , Lords and members of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce. Ambassador Brito has an impressive career in diplomacy, starting at the age of 24

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  • Meeting with Ambassadors reporting on summit in Egypt

    • 04/03/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News
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    On Tuesday 4 March 2025  MPs and Peers at a meeting chaired by Debbie Abrahams MP,  heard from the Ambassadors, H E Manar Dabbas, , Ambassador at the Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Ambassador Husam S. Zomlot Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom, Ambassador for Saudi Arabia Prince Khalid bin Salman

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  • World Book Day 2025

    • 04/03/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: Local News, News
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    World Book Day has been celebrated on the first Thursday in March since 1998 in the UK. This year Parliament marked World Book Day  on Tuesday 4 March 2025. As Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Publishing, I was pleased to see that there were many MPs who dropped in to collect the books

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