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3 unusual facts about Margaret Beckett


Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi

On March 29, 2007 UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced that the UK Government had negotiated al-Rawi's return from Guantanamo.

Hassan Wirajuda

In 2007 he chaired the first Indonesia-UK forum alongside British foreign minister Margaret Beckett.

Jamil el Banna

On March 29, 2007, UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced that the UK Government had negotiated the return from Guantanamo of el-Banna's traveling companion, Bisher al-Rawi, also a legal British resident.


Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

In the 2006 reshuffle, Margaret Beckett became the first (and only) woman to hold the post.


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