Tag: Chile UK

• Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 10:43 UTC

  UK and Chile deepen political relations, highlighting 200 years of close people-to-people links

  

  Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and the Foreign Minister of Chile Alberto van Klaveren met on 22 May in Santiago for the UK-Chile High-Level Political Dialogue to deepen the UK and Chile’s diplomatic, economic, financial, trade, business, and defense links.

• Thursday, August 8th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Boris Johnson talks to Chilean president Piñera about trade and bilateral close links

  

  Chilean president Sebastián Piñera revealed that last Thursday he had a phone call from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and they discussed bilateral issues.

• Sunday, October 7th 2018 - 12:34 UTC

  British Ambassador to Chile presents credentials to President Piñera

  

  The United Kingdom Ambassador to Chile, Mr. Jamie Bowden, presented his credentials to President Sebastián Piñera, at a ceremony that took place at La Moneda presidential palace on October 3rd.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:07 UTC

  UK and Chile agree to mutual cooperation in cyber defense

  

  The 16th Defense Staff Talks between United Kingdom and Chile took place on 13-14 September 2018 in Santiago at the Ministry of Defense. The Talks were led by the Undersecretary of Defense, Cristian de la Maza Riquelme, representing Chile and the Minister for the Armed Forces, Mark Lancaster, representing the United Kingdom.

• Saturday, May 19th 2018 - 06:26 UTC

  Boris Johnson will be the first Foreign Secretary to visit Argentina in 15 years

  

  Boris Johnson is to make the first visit by a British foreign secretary to Argentina for 25 years. Mr. Johnson will seek to take advantage of the improvement in relations with Buenos Aires since President Mauricio Macri came to power in 2015.President Macri has talked of lifting curbs on oil, fishing and shipping around the Falkland Islands as tensions eased.

• Monday, March 12th 2018 - 07:12 UTC

  Sir Alan Duncan attends Chilean president Piñera's inauguration

  

  Foreign Office minister for Europe and the Americas Sir Alan Duncan represented the UK in the inauguration of the new president of Chile, Sebastian Piñera. Minister Duncan arrived in Santiago on Saturday and part of his agenda is to discuss the future of UK-Chile bilateral relations with the incoming administration.

• Friday, January 19th 2018 - 05:21 UTC

  Foreign Office director in Chile to discuss UK's exit and transition process

  

  The Foreign Office Director of the Economic Diplomacy Directorate Hugh Elliot is currently in Chile on a two day visit to discuss the UK’s transition process from the European Union with the Chilean Government. Mr. Elliot is the UK's government main interlocutor for the transition program of agreements and third countries.

• Thursday, January 5th 2017 - 07:38 UTC

  London-Santiago direct flights inaugurated on Wednesday

  

  The new direct flight London-Santiago de Chile inaugurated on Wednesday should help increase the number of visitors from Britain and Europe, said Chilean authorities when they received the British Airways flight at the Chilean capital airport.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 07:38 UTC

  “Chile Day” in London underlines the very close links with the UK

  

  Chilean authorities and business people opened the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday as part of the “Chile Day 2014” which is the country's foremost promotion event abroad for the financial and business sectors. UK Foreign Office Minister of State for Latin America Hugo Swire underlined that Chile in “a key partner in the region”.