As a British Overseas Territory, Bermuda does not have a seat in the United Nations; it is represented by Britain in matters of foreign affairs. To promote its economic interests abro, Bermuda maintains representative offices in cities such as London and Washington, D.C. Bermuda's proximity to the h me it attractive as the site for summit conferences between British prime ministers and presidents. The first summit was held in December 1953, at the insistence of Prime Minister ston Churchill, to discs relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Participants included Churchill, president Dwight D. Eisenhower and French premier Joseph Laniel. In 1957 a second summit conference was held. The British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, arrived earlier than President Eisenhower, to demonstrate they were meeting on British territory, as tensions were still high regarding the previo year's conflict over the Suez Canal. Macmillan returned in 1961 for the third summit with President John F. Kennedy. The meeting was ed to discs Cold War tensions arising from construction of the Berlin Wall. The most recent summit conference in Bermuda between the two powers occurred in 1990, when British prime minister Margaret Thatcher met president George H. W. Bh. Direct meetings between the president of the United States and the premier of Bermuda have been rare. The most recent meeting was on 23 June 2008, between Premier Ewart Brown and President George W. Bh. Prior to this, the leers of Bermuda and the United States h not met at the White Hoe since a 1996 meeting between Premier David Saul and President Bill Clinton. Bermuda has also joined several other jurisdictions in efforts to protect the Sargasso Sea. In 2013 and 2017 Bermuda chaired the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association. Asylum to four er Guantánamo detainees Main article: Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo Bay: Bermuda |
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