{"id":16137,"date":"2013-06-13T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a71fdc5c323057b8f6e88449c0f9388b"},"modified":"2013-06-13T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:01:00","slug":"news-story-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=16137","title":{"rendered":"News story: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He will succeed Mr Andrew Heyn, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Patrick will take up his appointment during August 2013.<\/p>\n

Mr Patrick joined the FCO in 1988. Most recently he has worked on South Asian issues both in London as Additional Director and in Kabul, as Deputy Head of Mission. His previous postings have taken him to Africa and to Europe.<\/p>\n

On his appointment as Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Burma, Mr Patrick has said: <\/p>\n

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I am delighted to be appointed as British Ambassador to Burma. The next few years should be a period of tremendous political and economic change in the country. I look forward to playing my part in British efforts to support Burma on its continuing path to democracy and prosperity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Curriculum vitae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Full name:<\/td>\nAndrew Patrick<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/th>\nPost<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2009 \u2013 present<\/td>\nFCO, Additional Director South Asia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007 \u2013 2009<\/td>\nKabul, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004 \u2013 2007<\/td>\nPretoria, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001 \u2013 2004<\/td>\nFCO, Head of Newsroom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000 \u2013 2001<\/td>\nFCO, Head of Knowledge Programme<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998 \u2013 2000<\/td>\nFCO, Private Secretary, Foreign Secretary\u2019s Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996 \u2013 1998<\/td>\nFCO, Head of Section (Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995 \u2013 1996<\/td>\nBrussels, First Secretary, UKDEL NATO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991 \u2013 1995<\/td>\nNicosia, Third later Second Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989 \u2013 1991<\/td>\nFCO, Desk Officer, Security Policy Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Further information<\/h2>\n

UK and Burma<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mr Andrew Patrick has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Burma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}