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  • Approving and Planning Foreign Travel (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I think it would be quite helpful if you could say the criteria that he used for the trips that are accepted and those that are rejected, in terms of the planning side. Obviously at the moment we have understood from your answer to Mr Biggs' questions that you do not accept all the invitations, and presumably you are not proactive, but what are the criteria you use to decide?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [38]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I certainly do not characterise Monsieur Delanoe [Mayor of Paris] as an extremist. I do not think he has ever, even in his youth, advocated arming workers' militias or anything of that kind, Mr Ross.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [40]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So the situation was different from Mr Ross' example. I want to come to the point.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [41]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Did the Ambassador in Cuba accompany the Mayor on his trips?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [43]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I think they do rather more than that though. What about the political sections. Any advice asked as to the handling of the trip?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [45]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So he did not accompany him?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [47]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I am glad for the confirmation that it was said. But what I want to ask is this; have you got an international relations section, or advisors in the Mayor's Office?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [48]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    OK. I assume somebody - the structure may not matter - is responsible for briefing the Mayor in advance of his going on the foreign trips?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [49]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I can give you two or three reasons why. For example, the old colonial links do mean the Stock Exchanges between London and Hong Kong are quite well established. Dubai; the gold markets are critical there. You would be surprised how much the Asian community uses them out there when they are travelling through. Singapore clearly is the hub of East Asia.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [51]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    This is a question directed at John Ross. You have mentioned BRIC quite a lot; Russia, India and China. What happened to Brazil? I am trying to work out in your international relation strategy for the GLA and the Mayor's Office whether approaches have been made to the Brazilians, given that they are a major exporter of bio fuels and ethanol. They are clearly a big player in some of the things that we want to do. I am not sure for what reasons they were dropped off the four countries that make up BRIC.