![]() His Majesty’s Ambassador to Afghanistan | |
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Incumbent since July 2023Robert Chatterton Dickson (non-resident chargé d’affaires) | |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | |
Style | His Excellency Ambassador |
Reports to | Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs |
Appointer | The Crown on advice of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
Inaugural holder | Sir Francis Humphrys First Envoy Extraordinary to Afghanistan Sir Giles Squire First Ambassador to Afghanistan |
Formation | 1922 |
Website | British Embassy Kabul |
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Afghanistan is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Afghanistan, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Kabul. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Islamic Republicof Afghanistan.
The Treaty of Rawalpindi of 1921 provided for the exchange of diplomatic representatives between the two countries. Until 1948 the British ministers in Kabul were members of the Indian Political Service, appointed by the Foreign Office.
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