Transcript of interview: Martin Lamport, 2019

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 184

Scope and Contents

From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates

2019

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.

Biographical / Historical

Martin Lamport joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1974, and served in the following posts: West Indian and Atlantic Department, FCO, 1975-76 ; Finance Department, FCO, 1976; Nationality and Treaty Department, FCO, 1979-80; Libya, 1980-83; Venezuela, 1983-85; Nuclear Energy Department and Science Energy Nuclear Department, 1987-89; Brussels [Belgium], 1989-93 ; Belize, 1993-96; Security Policy Department, FCO, 1996-99; Sana’a [Yemen] and Consul General Aden [later Adan], 1999-2002; Lima [Peru], 2002-04; the Horn of Africa 2004-07; UN Department and Kosovo 2007-10. He died in February 2020. .