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- Progress on our priorities
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FCO in Action
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- Prevent & resolve conflict
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- Promote a low carbon, high growth, global economy
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- Manage migration for Britain
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- UK in Afghanistan
  - Why we are in Afghanistan
  - Visits
    - Helmand Provincial Councillors Visit: 4-11 June 2008
    - Foreign Secretary David Miliband and US Secretary of State Rice visit Afghanistan, 7 February 2008
    - Prime Minister's Visit to Afghanistan, 10 December 2007
    - Afghan MPs visit to the UK, 13-15 November 2007
    - President Karzai's visit to the UK, 21-25 October 2007
    - Mark Malloch-Brown's visit to Afghanistan October 2007
    - David Miliband's visit to Afghanistan, 24-25 July 2007
  - Politics
    - Paris Conference on Afghanistan, 12 June 2008
    - The role of the international community
    - Afghanistan and her neighbours
    - Elections and the Afghan constitution
  - Reconstruction
    - The UK in Helmand
    - FCO case study
    - Interview with Richard Jones, Stabilisation adviser to TFH PRT, 26/03/2008
    - Interview with Captain Philip Adams, Officer at Musa Qaleh, 26/03/2008
    - A Future from the Past, Photography Exhibition
  - Rule Of Law
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  - Counter-Narcotics
    - Counter Narcotics: frequently asked questions
    - UK response to the UNODC's 2008 Afghan Drugs Survey
    - Statement by Defence Secretary, John Hutton, on NATO's decision to step up counter-narcotics efforts in Afghanistan
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  - Human rights
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  - News archive
    - David Miliband on Sky News (09/12/2007)
    - Poppy Cultivation
    - Lord Malloch Brown announces new plans to tackle Afghan drugs (09/08/07)
    - Kenya and Afghanistan: Lord Malloch-Brown BBC Radio 4 interview (01/02/08)
    - David Miliband interview with Sarah Montague on Radio 4 (11 Feb 2007)
    - David Miliband's interview with Adam Boulton, 3 April 2008
    - David Miliband's interview on Radio 4, 3 April 2008
    - President Karzai's statement at the Bucharest Summit, 3 April 2008
    - Coldstream Guards safeguard Kabul schoolchildren, 2 April 2008
    - Radio 5 Interviews with Sadiq Khan MP, 29 March 2008
    - UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, on Sky News, 14 April 2008
    - UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, on Sky News, 14 April 2008
    - UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, on BBC Radio 4 "The World at One", 14 April 2008
    - UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, on BBC World Service, 14 April 2008
    - 8 days in Afghanistan - Fatim Jumabhoy's blog, 7 May 2008
    - British Ambassador condemns murder of Afghan counter narcotics judge, 4 September 2008
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    - Iraq's future in its hands
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    - United States
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- Travel advice relevant to you
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