British Consul General To Hong Kong And Macao
The British Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau ( zh, t_hk=英國駐香港及澳門總領事is the highest diplomat the United Kingdom sends to Hong Kong and Macau after the Handover of Hong Kong in 1997, managing the Consulate General of the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Consulate General of the United Kingdom in Hong Kong. To emphasize British-Hong Kong relationship, the Consul-General does not have to report to the Embassy of the United Kingdom, Beijing, British Embassy in Beijing like other Consuls and Ambassadors to China, instead, the Consul-General directly reports to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. History Prior to the Handover of Hong Kong to the China, PRC, the Governor of Hong Kong was the highest-level representative of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British Monarch in Hong Kong. On 26 September 1996, an agreement was struck between the UK and the PRC, allowing the British to establish a consulate general in Hong Kong. The Government of the United Ki ...
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Foreign, Commonwealth And Development Office
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom, ministerial department of the government of the United Kingdom. The office was created on 2 September 2020 through the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID). The FCO was itself created in 1968 by the merger of the Foreign Office (FO) and the Commonwealth Office. The department in its various forms is responsible for representing and promoting British interests worldwide. The head of the FCDO is the Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom), secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, commonly abbreviated to "foreign secretary". This is regarded as one of the four most prestigious positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cabinet – the Great Offices of State – alongside those of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister, ...
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