Diplomatic Wing Foreign & Commonwealth Office
ŠTABLE 5 MANPOWER
FOREIGN & COMMONWEALTH
OFFICE DIPLOMATIC WING
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Diplomatic Wing
1987-88 1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 Duffurs outturn outturn outturn outturn estimated original plans plani plans
outturn plans
*Gross Control Area:
¿Civil Service Full Time Equivalents
2,014
1,997
7,982
8,096
8,224
8,178 8,363 8.261
8.221
Overtime
350
371
328
326
335
175
335
241
241
Casu
1
1
43
103
103
8,365
8,369
8,311 8,423
8,560 8,396
8,699
8,605
Net Ramming Costs Control
Wilton Park
Civil Service Full Tune Equivalents
24
24
26
Overtime
3
Casuals
10
10
Total
37
37
Total Diplomatic Wing
8,402 8,406
2,351
8,443
26
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* " = 8
27
41
B..N
25
27
27
27
3
10
10
32
40
8,601 8,428 8,739 8,445 8,615
6. Review of the Year
6.1 1992 continued the pattern of post-Cold War change
and intensive diplomatic activity. UK foreign policy faced major new challenges and opportunities:
●The European Community; the UK assumed the EC Presidency for the second half of 1992. Two European Councils were held – in Birmingham and in Edinburgh. The Presidency oversaw the completion of the Single Market. It completed the negotiations on the future financing of the Community, which resulted in an agreement, including preservation of the UK rebate, which lasts until the end of the century. The EC reached agreement on a major reform of the Common Agricultural Policy during the year. In November the EC and US reached agreement on agricultural support, bringing an overall GATT Uruguay Round agreement within reach. Following rejection of the Maastricht Treaty in the Danish referendum in June, it fell to the UK Presidency to take forward discussions of its future. The Danish government tabled proposals in late October. Agreement was reached at the Edinburgh European Council on a solution to the Danish question, thereby opening the way for a second Danish referendum. Agreement was also reached at Edinburgh on a package of measures to reverse centralisation in EC decision-making. The Community also reached agreement on its position for the forthcoming accession negotiations with EFTAn applicants; further developed relations with the Visegrad countries (Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia) and with Turkey; and completed negotiations on Association Agreements with Bulgaria and Romania and on a new
Cooperation Agreement with India. It agreed the framework for negotiations on Partnership and Co- operation Agreements with the states of the former Soviet Union and opened negotiations with Russia.
●Former Yugoslavia: the EC continued at the forefront of efforts to bring peace to the former Yugoslav republics, notably by means of the peace conference chaired by Lord Carrington. The UK took the initiative of calling the London Conference in August 1992, to bring world pressure to bear on the warring parties. This established agreed principles for a negotiated settlement and set up the international conference on the former Yugoslavia in permanent session in Geneva. This conference is co-chaired by the UN Secretary General and the EC Presidency. Mr Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, the Co-Chairmen of the Conference's Steering Committee, work continuously from Geneva to achieve the London Conference's objectives. The UK has made a sizeable financial and practical contribution to UN peacekeeping and humanitarian relief operations. In 1992, the UK contributed £70.5 million to this and approximately 2750 troops for the UN peacekeeping operation known as UNPROFOR. These include a reinforced battalion providing convoy escorts in Bosnia, a field ambulance unit in Croatia, and those involved in the airlift into Sarajevo. As EC Presidency, the UK also led the EC Monitoring Mission from July to December.
The Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe: the UK played an active part in helping the 12 new countries emerging from the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 to join the inter- national community. It established diplomatic relations with all the new states, opening Embassies in
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