Many thanks to everyone in وزارة الخارجية وشؤون المغتربين الأردنية and UK in Jordan 🇬🇧🇯🇴 for enabling a very successful BGIPU visit to #Jordan last week and particular thanks to Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and the House of Representatives and Senate for giving so much of their time.

How very Bertie Wooster - 'Young Iranians turn ire on clerics by knocking off their turbans.' ft.com/content/3b6c24…

How Britain became the ‘used car salesman’ of Africa telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

I have to say that when I visited Finland on an official delegation a lot of diplomacy went into discussing ‘appropriate attire’ or lack thereof. Unlike this article says, we were repeatedly told we should be naked or the Finns will think we are weird. bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Meeting with fellow #NATO Parliamentarians to express solidarity with #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and to strengthen our defensive alliance.

At the centre of the first day of our visit to London was meeting w/ Craig Tracey and Sir John Whittingdale MP, chair and vice-chairs of the UK Parliament's cooperation group with Latvia, and other colleagues to discuss the future cooperation between Latvia and British parliaments..

Pleased to welcome to London this week in cooperation with Latvia in the UK - #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 a delegation from #Latvia 🇱🇻 Saeimas ziņas led by Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rihards Kols discussing our shared commitment to European security as UK House of Commons debates illegal Russian invasion of #Ukraine

Today we met with a delegation from Latvia's Saeimas ziņas to discuss cooperation between the UK and Latvian Parliaments, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and matters in culture, media and sport. Damian Green Clive Efford 💙 Jane Stevenson Giles Watling | BGIPU Latvia in the UK - #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Visiting inter-parliamentary delegation from #Latvia 🇱🇻 Saeimas ziņas met today w/ Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Alicia Kearns MP Liam Byrne MP @drewhendrySNP Lords European Affairs Committee @CommonsDCMS Damian Green Clive Efford 💙 Jane Stevenson Giles Watling & Chair Defence Committee Tobias Ellwood Latvia in the UK - #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Visiting inter-parliamentary delegation from #Latvia Saeimas ziņas led by Rihards Kols engaged in wide-ranging exchange today with Minister of State for the Armed Forces James Heappey Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 with 🇱🇻 Ambassador Ivita Burmistre & Latvia in the UK - #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 on defence coop & common security interests.

The first time I will not push back on the use of the term "Finlandisation". President Donald J. Trump in his speech in Warsaw today about Putin: “He thought he’d get the Finlandization of NATO. Instead he got the NATOization of Finland.” At times history has a sense of humour...

Excellent meeting today with Parliamentarians from #Latvia hosted by Lords European Affairs Committee & organised by BGIPU Discussed range of issues of shared concern.

🇱🇻 Parliament delegation led by Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Rihards Kols visiting 🇬🇧 this week:

Brilliant meeting with a Parliamentary delegation from Latvia and Ambassador Ivita Burmistre this morning, many pertinent issues discussed. Thank you to the BGIPU for facilitating. 🇱🇻 🇬🇧

I'm glad to say it's been a very productive few days hosting a delegation from #Latvia Saeimas ziņas led by Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rihards Kols discussing a shared commitment to European security as UK Parliament marks one year since illegal Russian invasion of #Ukraine 🇱🇻🇬🇧

And many thanks to Jack, Dominique Rees and Rick Nimmo from the BGIPU for your support, the great conversations and your active engagement in ensuring our visit was of the highest possible quality and went seamlessly. 🇱🇻🤝🇬🇧 Hope to welcome you in Latvia in the future, too!

Informative roundtable for MPs/Peers with HE Ambassador Rami Mortada of #Lebanon 🇱🇧 & senior reps of Embassy of Iraq in UK 🇮🇶 & Bahrain Embassy UK 🇧🇭🇬🇧 chaired by Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP & Lord Rennard to discuss national & regional developments week after our return fm #IPU146 in #Manama

The visit of the Moroccan parliamentary delegation to Westminster @UkParliament was followed by an Iftar reception hosted in honor of the APPG-Morocco. A great opportunity to strengthen the ties between Morocco and the UK and celebrate our long-standing friendship 🇲🇦🇬🇧