Career
In the year prior to being recruited into HM Diplomatic Service, Haseldine was employed at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in May 1971 and within four years was posted as Commercial Attaché to the Paris Embassy. In January 1978, he was posted as Third Secretary (Aid), later Second Secretary (Commercial/Aid), to the British High Commission in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In November 1982, he was posted back to London and spent a year in the FCO's Southern African Department.
In July 1983 he was appointed on assistant on the South Africa desk in the FCO's Southern African Department (SAfD) in London where his responsibilities included monitoring the voluntary cultural and sports boycott of South Africa, and enforcing the mandatory UN arms embargo against South Africa. However he was seconded to another department after his superiors deemed him unsuitable to work in a political department. In January 1986, he was unsuccessful in appealing against this unfavourable performance review, which he alleged was politically motivated.
For two years from 1984, he was seconded to the Office of Fair Trading before returning to the FCO in December 1986 (Defence Department).
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