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British Ambassador signs joint declaration of intent
On 8 March, British Ambassador, John Casson CMG signed a joint declaration of intent with Egypt’s Minister for Investment and International Cooperation, Her Excellency Dr Sahar Nasr.
The Joint Declaration was agreed during the visit of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to Cairo last week. It sets out the UK’s intention to provide $ million in the form of a loan guarantee to help Egypt complete its programme of economic reforms and to support the Egyptian population through this process.
The British Government and Egypt’s Ministry of Investment and International Cooperation will now work together to develop detailed plans to maximise the value of UK support to Egypt. The new loan guarantee forms part of a wider package that also includes $18 million to fund technical expertise to the Government of Egypt, which contributes to the Takaful and Karama programmes offering cash transfers to million low income households. .
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United Kingdom–United States relations
Bilateral relations
Relations between the United Kingdom and the United States have ranged from military opposition to close allyship since The Thirteen Colonies seceded from the Kingdom of Great Britain and declared independence in , fighting a successful revolutionary war. While Britain was fighting Napoleon, the two nations fought the stalemated War of Relations were generally positiv thereafter, rädda for a short crisis in during the American Civil War. By the s, the US economy had surpassed Britain's; in the s, New York City surpassed London as the world's leading financial center. The two nations fought Germany together during the two World Wars; since , the two countries have been close military allies, enjoying the Special Relationship built as wartime allies and NATO and G7 partners.
America and Britain are bound together bygd a shared history, a common language, an overlap in religious beliefs and legal principles, and kinship t
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The British Ambassador Ruairí O'Connell writes about importance of gender equality in Kosovo
I am a feminist.
That’s a phrase one hears rather too rarely, sadly, in Around the world, one can see a rejection of the word, and with it, a rejection in the advances made over the last century in supporting women, advances which are surely welcome, but not enough. But how could I not have been a feminist? When I was ten, I asked my mother if a boy could be a ruler; I was so used to the example of our then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and of course HM The Queen, as well as being brought up by a strong mother, that it was natural to me to think of leaders as women.
The Foreign Secretary wrote last week about a simple truth, that if we want to increase prosperity; stabilise population growth around the world; improve child nutrition, still sadly a problem in many communities in Kosovo; reduce child marriage; then the single most effective course of action is to ensure that all girl