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Sir Andrew Green
- Posted: 17th November, 2008
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Sir Andrew Green was a professional diplomat for 35 years. After studying Arabic, he spent half his career in the Middle East where he served in six posts The remainder of his service was divided between London, Paris and Washington. He was Ambassador in Syria (1991-94) and then Director for the Middle East in the Foreign Office before serving for four-and-a-half years as Ambassador in Saudi Arabia. He retired in June 2000.
He has since devoted his time to voluntary work. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Concordis, a charity specialising in conflict resolution. From 2002 –5 he was Chairman of Medical Aid for Palestinians, a British charity seeking to improve health care for Palestinians both in Palestine and in refugee camps.
He founded MigrationwatchUK towards the end of 2001. It is an independent, voluntary organisation funded by donations from the public. It believes that the public are entitled to know the facts, presented in a comprehensible form; it is then for the political system to decide what action to take.
Migration Watch UK Balanced Migration Report
Comments
- Aniket Barve said
- 22 June, 2010 at 7:25pm
I being from India support the view of restricting work permits to 4 years for students outside uk to pay their loans back and leave uk. They get 4 years of work exp enough to get a job anywhere on the globe.