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    Lord Cameron reprimands Humza Yousaf over Erdogan meeting ‘protocol breach’

    by Sarah Ward Dec 10, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: PA Wire

    The Foreign Secretary has threatened to withdraw co-operation with Scottish ministers after Humza Yousaf met Turkey’s president at Cop28 without a UK representative.

    Scotland First Minister posted an image of himself in Dubai with Recep Tayyip Erdogan on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying they had discussed the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza on December 1.

    In a letter to the SNP’s external affairs secretary , Lord said the meeting breached devolution protocols as a UK official was not given “sufficient advance notice” of the location

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