Ivor Roberts

Ivor Roberts    (diplomat)
Born	24 September 1946
Nationality	Irish
Member of	Counter Extremism Project
UK Ambassador to Italy In office March 2003 - 2006  UK Ambassador to Ireland In office 1999 - 2003

Sir Ivor Roberts is a retired UK diplomat who noted in 2004 that George W Bush was "al-Qa'ida's best recruiting sergeant".

Valedictory Telegram

In 2007, he gave a valedictory telegram which was "curtly dismissive" of the "war on terror". The response from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was to ignore the substance of his telegram but ban the century-old practice of valedictory telegrams from British envoys.

Publications

In 2009, Roberts edited the sixth edition of Satow's Diplomatic Practice, originally written in 1917 by Sir Ernest Satow and widely used in embassies throughout the world (Oxford University Press: 2009; ISBN 978-0-19-955927-5). It was reviewed by Sir Jeremy Greenstock later the same year.

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