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In April, UK’s foreign secretary at the time, David Cameron, travelled to Bishkek and urged the Kyrgyz authorities to do more to tighten their sanctions' compliance.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy called the veto a "disgrace".

Remember the former Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, visited Beijing in only August last year.

UK Labour Labour Foreign Secretary David Lammy previously called Trump a "neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath", in 2018 when he was a backbench MP, but has dismissed those comments as "old news", insisting he would be able to find "common ground" with the president-elect.

Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel, who left government two months before negotiations began under Rishi Sunak, said the accord would "give away a key strategic asset" in the Indian Ocean.