UK Mission Geneva 🇬🇧

The horror in Gaza must end. The UK is stepping up humanitarian efforts with new healthcare, food and water for Gazans. We need an immediate ceasefire now, the release of all hostages and a surge in aid. Statement in full⬇️ gov.uk/government/new…

The horror in Gaza must end. We're stepping up our humanitarian efforts with new healthcare, food and water for Gazans. We need an immediate ceasefire now, the release of all hostages and a surge in aid.

Great to see two, really innovative, British SMEs among the ten winners of the @WIPO Global Awards - QuinasTech, a spin off from @LancasterUni, and @ClicknClear_ 🏆 Congratulations to them both @The_IPO @UKMissionGeneva

This is an excellent listen🎧 Professor @DapoAkandeLaw - the UK 🇬🇧 candidate for the @CIJ_ICJ - talks to @ImogenFoulkes about his childhood, his career, and international law⚖️ Inside Geneva podcast available now🎙️👇

Saying goodbye to HE Amb Gordan Markotic ⁦@MarkoticGordan⁩ of Croatia. Thanks for your great long service to the MTS, your wit and humor; and welcoming HE Amb Kumar Iyer ⁦@KumarIyerUK⁩ PR of the UK to the WTO and UN institutions. Look forward to working with you.

The UK is doing all it can to alleviate Palestinian suffering in Gaza. Today we've announced a new humanitarian aid package. This includes vital funding for @UKMed, who have already treated over 500,000 Gazans over the course of the conflict.

The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…

A final farewell message - with thanks to the current generation of inspirational leaders of multilateral Geneva, my diplomatic colleagues across the city for their collaboration, cooperation and commitment, and of course my team at @UKMissionGeneva 🇬🇧🇺🇳

Dear @SimonManleyFCDO - you will be greatly missed in Geneva! Thank you for your partnership and friendship, and for your steadfast support to @WHO. Wishing you all the best! x.com/simonmanleyfcd…

It's a time of emotional goodbyes for our Head of Human Rights and Political, Bob Last💗 Here is his farewell note to Ambassador @SimonManleyFCDO and Deputy Head of Human Rights, Laura Callaghan-Pace (and also his reflections on #HRC59 Session) 📜✒️ lnkd.in/ejd64MyW

Thank you @SimonManleyFCDO for your leadership in global health, especially to the HIV response during your time as the UK’s Representative in Geneva. Wishing you continued success.

We're going to miss you very much @SimonManleyFCDO 🥹

Delighted to welcome @DapoAkandeLaw to 🇧🇼 this week. As the 🇬🇧candidate for the ICJ, Dapo represents the best of British and international legal expertise. Meeting with @duma_boko and 🇧🇼’s legal community, we outlined the UK’s strong commitment to international law. 🇬🇧🤝🇧🇼

🇬🇧 Ukraine was, is, and will be. Happy Ukrainian Statehood Day! *** 🇺🇦 Україна була, є і буде. З Днем Української Державності! #StandWithUkraine #ДеньДержавності #ДеньУкраїнськоїДержавності

At today’s @wto fisheries negotiations, I paid tribute to the outgoing chair, Ambassador Gunnarsson of Iceland. As he said, we have come frustratingly close to agreement on our second fisheries agreement three times, but have been blocked by a few. We mustn’t, can’t, give up 🌎

Thirty years ago, genocide took the lives of over 8,000 men and boys in Srebrenica. More than 20,000 women and children were forced from their homes. Today, we remember those brutally massacred and stand with the survivors of those horrific events.

"Only by learning from the past does it become possible to share in each other’s loss and look together to the future." In Srebrenica, The Duchess of Edinburgh has delivered a message from The King at the Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide.

"Multilateralism binds us together." 🇪🇺 🇬🇧

Meeting with Baroness Margaret Jones - UK’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. The UK is making strides in AI and Frontier Technologies including through their new Trade Strategy. Discussing how we might help…