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<p>Since taking up the role in June 2018, the UK Commonwealth Envoy has visited the
following Commonwealth countries: Rwanda, Kenya, India, Barbados, Saint Lucia, South
Africa and the Seychelles. The Commonwealth Envoy has called on all Commonwealth High
Commissioners in London, and is in regular contact with them (including at frequent
meetings of the Commonwealth Secretariat Board of Governors and Executive Committee).</p><p>Outside
of the Commonwealth he has travelled to New York: for a Commonwealth Foreign Affairs
Ministers' Meeting, a Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group meeting and other Commonwealth-related
meetings; Dubai, for Commonwealth meetings at the Plenipotentiary Conference of the
International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and to consolidate Commonwealth members'
support for the re-election of the British Deputy Secretary General of the ITU; and
to Addis Ababa, for a UN conference on implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation
Agreement (for which the UK is supporting several Commonwealth countries), and to
discuss Commonwealth-African Union collaboration.</p><p>He has also visited: Brussels,
to meet the Ambassador of a Commonwealth government which is not represented in London;
and Geneva, for a Commonwealth Health Ministers' Meeting, discussions with the International
Trade Centre (which is implementing the UK-funded She Trades Commonwealth Project)
and the ITU (re the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation), a discussion with
Commonwealth member representatives about increasing collaboration, and to visit the
Commonwealth Small States Office, to which the UK has provided specific financial
support.</p>
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