Bitola is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley,surrounded by the Baba,Nidže and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges,14 kilometres north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing with Greece. The city stands at an important junction connecting the south of the Adriatic Sea region with the Aegean Sea and Central Europe,and is an administrative,cultural,industrial,commercial,and educational centre. It has been known since the Ottoman period as the "City of Consuls",since many European countries had consulates in Bitola.
The diplomatic foreign relations of the United Kingdom are conducted by the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office,headed by the Foreign Secretary. The prime minister and numerous other agencies play a role in setting policy,and many institutions and businesses have a voice and a role.
Craig John Murray is a Scottish author,human rights campaigner,journalist,and former diplomat for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
James Lyall Sharp is a British diplomat who served as Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan 2002–2005. Since July 2019,he has been the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Azerbaijan.
Estonia and the United Kingdom are full members of the Council of Europe and NATO.
Dame Karen Elizabeth Pierce is a British diplomat who is currently British Ambassador to the United States at the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office,and was previously the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.
Paul Damian Madden is a retired British diplomat,who was High Commissioner to Singapore and to Australia,and Ambassador to Japan between 2017 and 2021.
Catherine Nettleton is a British diplomat who has been ambassador to Peru,ambassador to Venezuela,and UK Representative in Taiwan.
Francis Raymond "Frank" Baker,is a British diplomat and civil servant who was Ambassador to Libya from February 2018 to April 2019. He was Ambassador to Kuwait from 2010 to 2014,and Ambassador to Iraq from 2014 to 2017.
Thorhilda Mary Vivia "Thorda" Abbott-Watt OBE is a British diplomat who currently serves as British High Commissioner to Tonga.
Dame Sarah MacIntosh is a British diplomat who is the British Ambassador to NATO. She previously served as High Commissioner to Sierra Leone and Ambassador to Liberia from 2006 to 2008.
Emma Hopkins is a British diplomat who since October 2020 has been the British Ambassador to Denmark,and was previously the British Ambassador to Bulgaria from May 2015 to August 2020.
Jill Gallard is a British diplomat who took up the post of British Ambassador to Germany in November 2020. Previously she was the British Ambassador to Portugal,director of human resources at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and deputy political director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Deborah Jane Bronnert is a British diplomat who is currently British Ambassador to Russia at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Jessica Mary Hand is a British diplomat who has been the British Ambassador to Angola since 2018.
John David Dennis Jr. is a British diplomat who was the British Ambassador to Angola from 2014 to 2018 and the Director of Green Corridors and Ivory Trade at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference 2018. He is currently the British Representative to Taiwan,heading the British Office Taipei.
Jacqueline "Jacky" Perkins is a British diplomat who has been the British Ambassador to Belarus since 2019. Previous to that,she was the deputy head of mission in Kuwait.
North Macedonia–United Kingdom relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between the Republic of North Macedonia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Both countries are members of the Council of Europe and NATO.
Julia Longbottom is a British diplomat and the current Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Japan since March 2021. She is the first woman ambassador to represent the United Kingdom in Tokyo.
