Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Colin Roberts CVO (born 31 July 1959) is a British diplomat and the current Governor of the Falkland Islands.He previously served as British Ambassador to Lithuania, from 2004 to 2008, Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory and the British Antarctic Territory from 2008 to 2012 and Director of the FCO Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate from 2012 to 2014. Roberts also held diplomatic service posts in Japan, Gibraltar and Ireland. In 2010 The Guardian leaked cables relaying exchanges between Roberts and the US Political Counselor Richard Mills about the situation in the British Indian Ocean Territory in which Roberts refereed to the Chagos islanders (the former inhabitance of the BIOT) as "Man Fridays".In 2013 it was announced that Roberts had been appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, to take up office in April 2014. Alicia Castro, Argentina's ambassador to the United Kingdom, criticised Roberts's appointment as a "provocation" and said he was "not the person to encourage dialogue between nations".. }
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- Colin_Roberts_(diplomat) abstract "Colin Roberts CVO (born 31 July 1959) is a British diplomat and the current Governor of the Falkland Islands.He previously served as British Ambassador to Lithuania, from 2004 to 2008, Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory and the British Antarctic Territory from 2008 to 2012 and Director of the FCO Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate from 2012 to 2014. Roberts also held diplomatic service posts in Japan, Gibraltar and Ireland. In 2010 The Guardian leaked cables relaying exchanges between Roberts and the US Political Counselor Richard Mills about the situation in the British Indian Ocean Territory in which Roberts refereed to the Chagos islanders (the former inhabitance of the BIOT) as "Man Fridays".In 2013 it was announced that Roberts had been appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, to take up office in April 2014. Alicia Castro, Argentina's ambassador to the United Kingdom, criticised Roberts's appointment as a "provocation" and said he was "not the person to encourage dialogue between nations".".