Yemen

Michael Aron praised facility part-owned by British American Tobacco at ribbon-cutting event in 2019.

“Our ambassadors regularly engage with the private sector in both a formal and informal capacity,” the FCDO said on Sunday. In 2015, the high commissioner to Pakistan attended a lobbying meeting between BAT and the country’s finance ministry. The former high commissioner to Bangladesh intervened in 2017 to help BAT in a tax dispute with the government. I’m an Arabic speaker, so I picked it up, but in other circumstances it wouldn’t be as easy,” he said. “In retrospect, I accept it was a mistake and had no intention whatsoever in promoting the tobacco company,” he said. The Guardian revealed in 2020 that Jordan’s tobacco consumption rates were