To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress has been made on his Department’s Global Dialogue Strategy, as referred to on page 18 of his Department’s Autumn 2008 Performance Report; and which 27 target country posts are involved. (246261)

We have begun a dialogue with a number of states on the need to consider whether our current international organisations are best equipped to confront the challenges of the 21^st century. The states we have so far engaged are those that play a key role in the existing international system and will have a view on how we can make it more effective in the future.