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Embassy Of The United Kingdom, Belgrade
The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Belgrade is the chief diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in Serbia. The Embassy is located at Resavska 46. Sian MacLeod has been the British Ambassador to Serbia since September 2019. The Embassy also represents the British Overseas Territories in Serbia. History The original British legation house in Belgrade was located 22 Gracanicka Ulica however as the importance of the mission grew and the volume of consular and commercial activity it outgrew its building. The embassy move into leased space at No. 42 in the same street in the mid-1930s. After the Second World War this building was again thoroughly overcrowded. In 1951, the adjacent site at No. 44, was bought from the Serbian government. The lease on No. 42 was given up in the late-1970s. The current Embassy is located at Resavska 46. Ambassador's residence During visit of Yugoslav President Tito to Britain in 1953 the foreign secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, spoke to him ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Inglis
Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was a Scottish doctor, surgeon, teacher, Women's suffrage, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service, Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the first woman to hold the Order of the White Eagle (Serbia), Serbian Order of the White Eagle. Early life and education Inglis was born on 16 August 1864, in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India. Inglis had eight siblings and was the second daughter and third youngest. Her parents were Harriet Lowes Thompson and John Inglis (civil servant), John Forbes David Inglis (1820–1894), a magistrate who worked in the Indian civil service as List of Chief Commissioners of Oudh, Chief Commissioner of Oudh through the East India Company, as did her maternal grandfather. Inglis's parents considered the education of a daughter as important as that of a son, and also had them schooled in India. Elsie and her sister Eva had 40 dolls which she used t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diplomatic Missions Of The United Kingdom
This is a list of diplomatic missions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, excluding honorary consulates. The UK has one of the largest global networks of diplomatic missions. UK diplomatic missions to capitals of other Commonwealth of Nations member countries are known as High Commissions (headed by ' High Commissioners'). For three Commonwealth countries (namely India, Nigeria, and Pakistan), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) still uses the term "Deputy High Commission" for Consulates-General (headed by Deputy High Commissioners), although this terminology is being phased out. British citizens may get help from the embassy of any other commonwealth country present, when in a country where there is no British embassy. There are also informal arrangements with some other countries, including New Zealand and Australia, to help British nationals in some countries. In 2004, the FCO carried out a review of the deployment of its diplomatic missions, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To Serbia
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Serbia is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Republic of Serbia, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Belgrade. List of heads of mission Consul to Serbia *1837–1839: George Lloyd Hodges *1839–1842: No representative Consul-General to Serbia *1842–1859: Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque *1860: Robert Bulwer-Lytton *1860–1869: John Augustus Longworth Agent and Consul-General to Serbia *1869–1875: John Augustus Longworth *1875–1879: William Arthur White Minister Resident to Principality of Serbia *1879–1881: Gerard Francis Gould *1881–1885: Sidney Locock (from 1882 to the Kingdom of Serbia) Minister Resident to the Kingdom of Serbia *1885–1886: Hugh Wyndham Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Serbia *1886–1888: George Hugh Wyndham *1888–1890 Frederick Robert St John Consul-General to the Kingdom of Serbia *1890–1892: Frederick Robert St John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Diplomatic Missions In Serbia
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Serbia. The country hosts 71 embassies. Honorary consulates and trade missions are excluded from this listing. Embassies in Belgrade * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Other missions in Belgrade * (Delegation) * ( Liaison office) Gallery File:Cxqpaphsgqad.jpg, Embassy of Austria File:Аклсјфбдјск.JPG, Embassy of Belarus File:Belgium embassy - Belgrade.jpg, Embassy of Belgium File:Brasil embassy - Belgrade.jpg, Embassy of Brazil File:Bělehrad, bulvár Kralja Aleksandra, česká ambasáda.jpg, Embassy of Czechia File:Embassy of France in Belgrade.JPG, Embassy of France File:Greek Embassy Belgrade.jpg, Embassy of Greece File:Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Belgrade.jpg, Embassy of Indonesia File:Embassy of Italy in Belgrade. IMG 0475.jpg, Embassy of Italy File:Macedonia embassy - Belgrade.jpg, Embassy of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbia–United Kingdom Relations
British – Serbian relations are foreign relations between the United Kingdom and Serbia. Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1837. The UK has an embassy and consulate in Belgrade and Serbia has an embassy in London. The Serbian ambassador to the United Kingdom is Dr Dejan Popovic and the British ambassador to Serbia is Sian MacLeod. Trade between the two countries in 2004 amounted to US$245.8 million. In the first ten months of 2005 exports of Serbia and Montenegro to Great Britain accounted for US$68.2 million (110.6 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2004) and the imports from the UK were US$104.2 million (85 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2004). The 2001 UK Census recorded 31,244 people born in the former state of Serbia and Montenegro, which are now the independent states of Serbia and Montenegro, while Kosovo's independence from Serbia is still disputed. History During Gascoyne-Cecil's first tenure as Prime Minister fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Keefe
Denis Edward Peter Paul Keefe CMG (born 29 June 1958) is a British diplomat and former Ambassador to Serbia. Biography Keefe was educated at Campion School, Hornchurch and studied Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge and Hellenistic Greek poetry at Hertford College, Oxford. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1982 and served at Nairobi and twice at Prague as well as at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London. In 2007 he studied Georgian and Russian at Malmö University in preparation for his appointment as ambassador. Keefe was Ambassador to Georgia 2007–10 including the Russo-Georgian war in 2008. He was one of the victims of the 2010 Georgian news report hoax. Keefe was Minister and Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow 2010–14. During this time, Russian media harassed him and accused him of being a MI6 officer, possibly because of his supposed actions in Georgia. Keefe was appointed Ambassador to Serbia from June 2014. In 2019 he was succeeded in the rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomislav Nikolić
Tomislav Nikolić ( sr-Cyrl, Томислав Николић, ; born 15 February 1952) is a Serbian retired politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2012 to 2017. A former member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), he disassociated himself with the party in 2008 and formed the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) which he led until 2012. Born in village Bajčetina near Kragujevac, Nikolić was a long-time member of parliament for SRS. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia from 1998 to 1999 and Deputy Prime Minister of FR Yugoslavia in the coalition government from 1999 to 2000. Nikolić was the deputy leader of SRS from 2003, and he briefly served as the President of the National Assembly of Serbia in 2007. In 2008, he resigned following a disagreement with party leader Vojislav Šešelj regarding Serbia's relations with the European Union, as Nikolić became in favour of Serbia's accession to the EU, a move that was staunchly opposed by Šeš ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Anthony Eden
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 until his resignation in 1957. Achieving rapid promotion as a young Conservative member of Parliament, he became foreign secretary aged 38, before resigning in protest at Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy towards Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy. He again held that position for most of the Second World War, and a third time in the early 1950s. Having been deputy to Winston Churchill for almost 15 years, Eden succeeded him as the leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister in 1955, and a month later won a general election. Eden's reputation as a skilled diplomat was overshadowed in 1956 when the United States refused to support the Anglo-French military response to the Suez Crisis, which critics across party lines regarded as a historic setback for British foreign policy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sian MacLeod
Sian Christina MacLeod (born 31 May 1962) is a British diplomat who was formerly head of the UK delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna. She is now the British Ambassador to Serbia. Career MacLeod graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a BMus degree in 1983. She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1986 and served in Moscow 1988–92. After the collapse of the Soviet Union she served briefly as deputy head of mission in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1992. She then returned to the FCO until she was posted to The Hague 1996–2000. She was sent back to Moscow 2004–07, first as political counsellor and then as minister and deputy head of mission. She was ambassador to the Czech Republic 2009–13 and was appointed to be head of the UK delegation to the OSCE in 2015 (with the rank of ambassador). In January 2019 she was appointed to be ambassador to the Republic of Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in German-occupied Europe. He also served as the president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 14 January 1953 until his death on 4 May 1980. He was born to a Croat father and Slovene mother in the village of Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia). Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest sergeant major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time. After being seriously wounded and captured by the Russians during World War I, he was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains. He participated in some events of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legation
A legation was a diplomatic representative office of lower rank than an embassy. Where an embassy was headed by an ambassador, a legation was headed by a Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, minister. Ambassadors diplomatic rank, outranked ministers and had precedence at official events. Legations were originally the most common form of diplomatic mission, but they fell out of favor after World War II and were upgraded to embassies. Through the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century, most diplomatic missions were legations. An ambassador was considered the personal representative of their monarch, so only a Great power, major power that was a monarchy would send an ambassador, and only to another major power that was also a monarchy. A republic or a smaller monarchy would only send a minister and establish a legation. Because of diplomatic reciprocity, even a major monarchy would only establish a legation in a republic or a smaller monarchy. For example, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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