The UK 🇬🇧 and NZ 🇳🇿 have signed the #TIDES agreement — backing clean energy access across the Pacific.
A $24m initiative, TIDES brings public & private finance together to help Pacific nations shift from fossil fuels to renewables.
Partnership in action. 🌏
#ClimateFinance
‘I leave believing the bilateral relationship between our two countries has never been stronger, deeper, or broader.’
Today, we bid a final farewell and thank you to High Commissioner @VickiTreadell for her steadfast work to strengthen UK-Australia ties these past 6 years. 🇬🇧🇦🇺
Delighted to host the #Afghan Women's #Cricket Team to dinner, the final one of my tenure at the 🇬🇧Residence, Westminster House. Stories of courage & hope.
Thanks @catherineordway, @NStottDespoja, many of my fellow ♀️Heads of Missions & team @ukinaustralia for attending.
With huge thanks to The Governor General HE The Hon Sam Mostyn & Mr Simeon Beckett for hosting a farewell dinner for me with a few friends & colleagues. It was a very special evening.
Honoured to be appointed British High Commissioner to Australia from April. Huge thanks to @VickiTreadell and our @UKinAustralia network for their great work strengthening ties between our countries. Looking forward to joining you all. 🇬🇧🇦🇺
UK is supporting the response to the #earthquake in #Vanuatu, which has affected about 80,000 people.
We're contributing life-saving aid through @UNCERF and vital hygiene and shelter kits arrived today through our partnership with @dfat
What a great start to my day - breakfast with #SioneOfaFinefeuiaki & @MaryHuntFCDO.
His passion for the work of his charitable foundation is infectious with #sustainability & #sociallicence core values.
#Tonga is lucky to have such a champion.
@HMAMalone
A very warm welcome to our new #Swiss colleagues:
HE Nikolas Stürchler, Ambassador to Australia; &
HE Barbara Gonzenbach, Special Envoy Pacific, Ambassador to Kiribati, Nauru, PNG, Solomon Is. & Vanuatu.
Here with @MaryHuntFCDO & I.
We look forward to working with you.
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After years of chaos Britain is back with a voice on the world stage.
As Development Minister my mission is to help bring about a world free from poverty on a liveable planet.
At @ChathamHouse today, I set out the government’s new approach to development.https://t.co/MQRggflVLO
#GoodLuck to Gareth Hoar, all the team @UKinSamoa & @fcdo colleagues, including from our #Oceania Network, joining them to support Their Majesties The King & Queen and the UK's #CHOGM delegation.
Always good to catch up with #Pacific colleagues & to break bread together.
Last night HE Robert Sisolo, Acting HC @CTuihalangingie & Chargé d'Affaires Reupena Matauiau - Solomans Is, Tongan & Samoan colleagues - came to dinner.
We talked #CHOGM, #Climate & #GastroDiplomacy.
Today is International Day of the Girl Child. Hear from @MaryHuntFCDO, Minister Counsellor, Head of Pacific Development Unit British High Commission Canberra, on what the day means for us.
Read more from High Commissioner @VickiTreadell here: https://t.co/vt8vxyqpG5
I was delighted to catch up with #Australian Foreign Minister @SenatorWong.
Pictured here with my colleagues Hanno Trayhurn & @MaryHuntFCDO.
From the situation in the Middle East to the #Commonwealth, we covered a broad range of topics.
A joy to have been working with @FinauSoqo and @ForumSEC to get the UK’s support for the design and mobilisation of the Pacific Resilience Facility agreed and shared with our Pacific partners in Tonga. #ClimateFinance
Rebuilding our development reputation. Genuine partnership with the Global South. Economic growth. Climate action. Empowering women and girls. Equality at the heart of all we do.
Change begins now.
Our 1st 🇬🇧 consignment of #humanitarian aid arrives in #PNG following the tragic landslide in Enga province.
Our excellent High Commissioner @AnneMacroUK on the ground to receive it (w. 🇦🇺 colleague Lisa Mollard).
Huge thanks to @dfat for their assistance.
https://t.co/oXJyVSPpm6