📋 Tender Overview
After 2 years in online mode I am delighted to be able to be with you all here in person to speak about what has been and will be our priority for the next years how to enhance the UK-Brazil collaboration whilst reflecting upon our areas of common interest and I am very keen we are able to advance with these conversations through the Conversa.I want to talk to you about the UKs foreign policy vision for the world as outlined in the Integrated Review and how we want to work with Brazil and Brazilians to not only strengthen our great friendship but turn it into a bold partnership.I also want to talk about the breadth and strength of our relationship which we have advanced in many areas from science innovation security and dealing with emerging cyber threats climate and green growth expanding digital access English language teaching bilateral trade and more.The Integrated ReviewThe UK Government set out its foreign policy vision for the role that the UK will play in the world through the Integrated Review of foreign defence security and development policy which was published in May last year.It sets out the how the UK can work across all parts of government using all of its capabilities and most importantly through building international partnerships to meet global challenges and protect and champion our interests and values.Our over-arching aim is to be an active force for good in the world.That is underpinned by our fundamental values of democracy human rights the rule of law freedom of speech and faith and equality.Globally our work will focus on five key objectives solving global challenges investing in science and technology defending democracy and human rights championing the free flow of trade capital and knowledge and taking a more robust approach to security and deterrence.Fundamentally the review recognises that we cannot do this alone. To be successful and to meet these global challenges we have to work collaboratively. Cooperation with our allies is central to our success.Brazil and the UK are natural allies and share an alliance founded on friendship a shared commitment to democratic values freedom and the market economy. We have strong and deepening bilateral commercial security and cultural ties. It is right that we view Brazil as a strategic partner in our efforts to meet the global challenges we face today.Solving Global Challenges RussiaUkraineAnd there is no bigger challenge or threat to the rules based international system than the senseless act of aggression and brutality by Russia against Ukraine and its people. A malicious act against a sovereign independent state which if Putin wins threatens not just Ukraine but threatens our shared democratic values on a global scale as well as our national security.The free world has united behind Ukraine in its fight for freedom. And its this united stance that we must maintain so that those that seek to undermine the integrity and self-determination of another independent nation are not only contained but will fail.
