In his capacity as Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Lieutenant-General John McColl helped coordinate high-level dialogue between President Karzai and me. Lieutenant McColl visited Afghanistan in his capacity as Special Envoy.
My right hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd) is a Special Envoy on Human Rights in Iraq. My right hon. Friend has visited Belgium, Iraq and the United States since May 2005, to report back to me on developments regarding human rights issues in Iraq, as well as raising issues with Iraqi and international interlocutors.
My noble Friend right hon. Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean is a Special Envoy to the Two Kingdoms Dialogue (UK-Saudi Arabia), reporting to my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary. My noble Friend accompanied the then Foreign Secretary my right hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) to Riyadh in April 2006 and co-chaired the one-day Two Kingdoms Dialogue conference. In October 2005 I also appointed my noble Friend as my Special Representative to assist the Government's efforts to conclude Memoranda of Understanding, and associated arrangements, to facilitate the deportation from the UK of foreign nationals who represent a threat to the national security or whose presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good, with a number of Middle East and North African countries.
In his capacity as my special representative to the Sultan of Brunei, Lord Powell of Bayswater undertakes meetings to discuss a wide range of matters of bilateral interest as well as regional and international issues.
In respect of Lord Levy I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) on 17 March 2006, Official Report, Columns 2581- 82W.