 Boroddarr, gweithio. Fy enw i gweithio i mi i gael y gweithio y Llywodraeth Gweithgwyrdau. Felly, rwy'n gweithio i'r gweithio'r gweithgwyrdau o'r plan sydd wedi'i gweithio'r gweithgwyrdau o'r platform global sydd gennym ar y 2022 Fife Men's World Cup. Y Llywodraeth Gweithgwyrdau er mwyn i gweithio'r gweithgwyrdau, i gweithio'r gweithio i'ch gweithio'r gweithio a i gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio gyda'r Welsh's first World Cup campaign in 64 years. Yn y World Cup, mae'r bobl sydd yn gweithio Iwyrd, mae'r bobl yn gweithio'r gweithio. Y Llywodraeth Gweithgwyrdau sydd yn defnyddio'r gweithio, yn y rhwng hwnnw, ac mae'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio sydd wedi'i gweithio'r gweithio'r hynod. Mae'r ffordd yn ymddangos y ffordd yng nghymru sy'n gweithio'r ffordd. Mae'r ffordd yn ymddangos yng nghymru yn gweithio'r ffordd yn cynnodol i'r cyllidiau a'r cyllidiau, ac mae'r prinsbysgol yn ei wneud yw'r prinsbysgol yn yw'r World Cup. Felly, oherwydd o'r ffordd yng nghymru, ac o'r tîm yn y tornau, mae'n rhaid i'r ffordd o'r rhan o'r rhan o'r rhan o'r llwyddiadau ac LGBTQ plus yw'r rhaglen. Y Prif Weinidog dweud yw'r rhaglen o'r cyfnodau yn gyflawn i'r Cymru i'r UK yw'r ysgol, ac mae'n rhaid i'r cyflawn i'r cyflawn i'r cyflawn i'r cyflawn, yn cael ei wneud o'r cerddau hynny, mewn cyflawn i'r cyflawn i'r Cyflawn i'r Cyflawn i'r Cyflawn i'r Cyflawn i'r Cyflawn. Whilst Government Ministers continue to meet with stakeholders, including the international TUC and the rainbow war fans group, to engage on these critical issues. We are proud of the stance that has been taken by the team and we'll just fortunate to be represented by this special group of players under Rob Paaws' LEADERSHIP. The FAW players and fans rightly look to the Welsh Government for advice, support, and leadership on these matters. ac yn yr hyn, nynd surpriser sy'n gofynifio a gawsihwyr mewn ffordd ar y tornaf. As ydych chi'n trafodi ac brydydd i Anglennu yn y grwp. Doeddwn ni'n brifysgol sydd wedi bod ym thyf yn ei casig o'r panfloedau global sy'n defnyddio bwrdd y Cynllun i ddechrau'n wentlygedeithios yng Nghyrgr的ty SPA yn y DU. Ie, mae'r bwrth yr hynni sydd yn ystod y gwbl gwahodd. Roedd yna'n rhoi yw'r rhain ymlaen o'ch parwyr yn gweithio'r gweithio. Rydym yn wych yn chi'n gwasanaeth a'r gaf, rydym yn ei ffrasil o'r campain. Mae'r ffrasil o'r gweithio'r FFAW sydd yn y Cadeff City Stadium sy'n rhan o'r gwbl gwahanol gyda'r ffrasil yma sy'n gweithio'r Cadeff City Stadium. Mae'r gwbl gwahanol yn gweithio'r gweithio'r ffrasil o ffrasil o'r gwbl gwahanol. hwps a lwps. This is an LGBTQ plus refugee and asylum seeker support group for people who have come to Wales to escape domestic violence, persecution and even the threat of death. Wales's status as a nation of sanctuary matters. It is a core part of the values we choose to stand for and I'm delighted that those who are building a new life here are able to join us as we mark this major moment in Wales's sporting history. Our ambitious programme activities is designed to proudly promote Wales with new audiences worldwide and it is now well underway. Last week, Robert Page revealed the 26th player squad that will represent us at the tournament led, of course, by our talisman and captain, Gareth Bale. Today, I am pleased to announce four fresh additions to the Team Wales 22 efforts with our new group of Wales ambassadors. And these ambassadors working under the Clayshire Cymru banner will help to promote and celebrate the very best of Wales to the world. We have been incredibly fortunate to recruit the following. Olympian and World Champion Colin Jackson CBE former Wales captain, football captain, turn professor Laura McAllister, DJ and presenter Katie Owen and renowned chef Bryn Williams. As part of the wider Team Cymru 22 approach, FAW ambassadors and Wales legends Jess Fishlock and Ian Rush will also support our programme of activities. We also want to help to bring fans together at home and across the globe from New York to Stockholm and Wrexham to Rhondda. Our World Cup Partner Support Fund is now supporting 19 projects designed to promote Wales, to share our culture, arts and heritage as an integral part of this global celebration. They include the Grill Cymru Festival, led by the FAW and Arts Council of Wales which is celebrating our arts and sport across more than 200 events. S4C organised a concert in New York early this week. The Earth delivered their biggest singing jamboree across schools with 230,000 children taking part. And Street Games Wales is reaching out to those living in our least well-off communities. An audience of around 5 billion people will watch the FIFA World Cup offering a rare opportunity to introduce a progressive, dynamic Wales to new audiences across the globe. We have implemented our enhanced marketing campaign focusing on core target international and domestic markets including the USA, key European markets and here of course in the UK. The key campaign will promote Wales as an open, progressive nation a great place to do business and a great place to visit. It is focused on the people of Wales extending our warm welcome. A series of new short films are being released packed with authentic voices inviting the world to Wales. To further support our objective to promote Wales, engage in diplomacy and importantly to project our values the First Minister will attend Wales's group game against the USA and I will attend the England game. These represent the most significant opportunities for us to raise the profile of Wales and make connections where we can share our interests and values. We believe that it is proportionate for Welsh ministers to not attend the Iran game and will be supporting Wales from home. To ensure the safety and security of Welsh citizens in Qatar and a welcome for all we have also engaged regularly with the UK government and with a range of government agencies as well as UK police forces. Regular channels of contact have continued for updates on matters of security and safety from the Qatari Supreme Committee which as you know is a committee responsible for managing the World Cup. We have also been in regular contact with the UK Embassy in Qatar. Our ongoing investment in sporting facilities in Wales includes a capital budget of £24 million over the next three years alongside investments in schools facilities and support delivered by local authorities. The Welsh government does not underestimate the serious issues this tournament has raised for citizens, sporting bodies and governments everywhere. I'm pleased that our plans reinforce the values that make Wales the nation it is and we will not step back from those values. After a 64-year wait this Wales team deserves to be competing at the top table and to take enormous pride from the joy they have already given to so many of us. The relationship that this team has built with Welsh fans is something that is truly special. I'm sure that you'll all join with me in wishing Robert Page and the team all the best in this World Cup. Poblwch Cymru. I'll now take questions from journalists. And I think we're going to start with Felicity Evans on the screen. Borodaw Felicity Evans. Borodaw Minister, thank you very much indeed. Just on the rationale for when you decide that engagement with an oppressive regime dialogue and the demonstration of what you call an open and progressive Wales is the right way forward and when you decide that it isn't there's a ministerial boycott of the Iran game not of the other games, you are going to Qatar because you say you favour this dialogue as the right approach. What's the rationale there? Because it seems a bit of a confused approach. How do you decide which countries are beyond the pale and which aren't? Well the first minister issued a statement on values and responded to the broader statement of values that a range of stakeholders including the FAW and the Future Generations Commissioner brought together. And it sets out that these are judgments that we make and take are broad starting approaches that we favour engagement and as we are doing and standing up for what makes Wales Wales. The challenge and it's always a nuanced discussion in the sense of there are competing arguments for engagement and not and that's the discussion that the Government had about our presence in Qatar and we've taken a decision in terms of Iran about what is proportionate. As we look ahead to some of the challenges that families and others are facing and the way that we use ministerial time we took the decision that attending the Iran game wasn't proportionate but we'll consider again if as we all hope Wales do get through to the knockout stages whether ministers should attend future games as well. So it's hard to set out a hard and fast set of rules about where we would or would not be prepared to send ministers directly to that country and as I say we have tried to set that out in the statement. I think that people often look for black and white in a mathematical form and allow you to reach that but actually you have to look at each country you have to look at the situation you face what the opportunities are in engagement and what this means to Wales because much of course of what we're doing in Qatar is promoting Wales to the wider world and the two biggest opportunities are obviously our game against the USA which is in many ways our biggest target market and the game against England with as I say the opportunity to set out to a 5 billion people audience that Wales is a distinct nation within the UK and that certainly isn't something that is always clear. Thank you If I could change topic for my second question please and just ask for your reflections on the investigation currently and the way at Gwent Police after what the chief constable has described as the emergence of vile text messages involving homophobia, misogyny corruption and so on. Nazir Afzal, the former head of the Crown Prosecution Service also a Welsh Government advisor on tackling violence against women says he thinks that this and what we've seen at the Met Police that there should now be some form of national enquiry into all the police forces in Wales and England. Do you agree with that? Well it's the first time I've heard of the call from Nazir Afzal who I've met and as you point out has been an advisor to the Welsh Government on the individual issue in Gwent Police I think it's important to reflect on the business taken by the chief constable Pam Kelly. There's been no hesitation in how a porch has been at the allegations and the investigation has taken place by a separate police force. All of us should be able to have trust and confidence in the police and every time it is revealed there are people who wear the uniform who absolutely should not it is of course a point of concern I've seen the wider issues in relation to the Met and others I'd want to reflect and consider the call from Nazir Afzal and others for a wider investigation and to understand how that will practically make a difference because that's what I'm most interested in to make sure that we all get the police force that we deserve as citizens but also all the many decent men and women who serve in our police forces and I have friends and I know who work in the police force as well that they have officers alongside them that won't embarrass and shame them in the way that I'm afraid that many have done so I think we'll consider the call before coming out with a more considered view on Nazir Afzal's suggestion Thank you Flistie and now in the room we've got Will Hayward from Wales Online, nice to see someone in person again Will Thank you Minister Just keeping on the Gwent Police theme you say Pam Kelly reacted very quickly this hasn't come as a surprise that there's issues within Gwent Police we recently add two very senior officers as well one retired just before he was dismissed just two days before he was dismissed and another was dismissed we also saw the case of Clark Jocelyn where an officer was able to stay in post for many years and was found by the force itself to be controlling of other female officers Given that this has been a long standing theme with the force do you think that there should be a wider inquiry into the force itself beyond just the Wiltshire Police investigation? I don't think it's helpful for me to start freestyling on investigations into Gwent Police with wider culture and I don't think you'd really expect me to but I really do recognise the serious of the individual issues you raise and what it means about the broader force because I do understand in many organisations individual issues can be about one row group of individuals I also understand that frankly there can be a culture that leads to people feeling empowered to behave in that way and then how organisations deal seriously with complaints and concerns and that's what I'd expect a leader in any organisation to be prepared to acknowledge and then to act on but I'm not sure that would be sensible for me as a Welsh Government minister who isn't responsible for policing of course we have lots of relationships with all of our devolved public services and policing but we're not the responsible body when it comes to oversight to try to call for a wider investigation but I recognise the significance of the concern and the fact it does not appear that these are just a couple of bad apples Going back to the World Cup the events that are organised in the US some of them were broadcast but there are some events which are obviously taxpayer funded which will just be invite only they won't be broadcast will be to quite a limited group of people how does that project Welsh values beyond just the people that have attended relatively small events and hold invite only events we're holding a FinTech event in London later this month that's an invite list to a range of people who have got interest from different embassies and also different companies within the sector future investors and that's about gathering together and using the influence of this global platform to get to decision makers to pretend to investors who might not otherwise get the opportunity to gather together in the same place and it's exactly that approach to not just the events in the US I'm going to the US myself as part of that effort to project Wales on a global stage with a broader media presence and indeed a series of organised meetings that are by invite only it's the way we work in a whole range of areas and again it shouldn't be a surprise on trade missions we have organised events that are open we have others where it's invite only and that is about taking advantage of the opportunity to market Wales is a great place to visit and to come and do business in ways of trying to achieve our objectives without having simply one means of doing it and as ever we expect to have metrics on how successful our activity has been and they'll come on in a number of months afterwards and as you'd expect I expect to be publishing months after the World Cup something about how our initial phase has gone and then what the longer term impact of Wales's journey in the World Cup has been and obviously the longer that journey continues the better it is for all of us whether fans or interested investors are like thank you, thank you Will I've now got Adrian Masters on the screen Good morning Minister thank you very much and picking up really on the issues to do with Qatar Keir Starmer has said that he won't go neither will any of the Shadow Cabinet members because of the message it sends I realise that you're in a different position as a Government as opposed to an opposition in their case is it with you as a Labour politician to realise that colleagues who you respect and work with have taken a very different decision? I would say it's entirely reasonable for people to take different positions on the issue there is a reasonable case to argue for engagement or not and I'm not surprised there are people in every political party who have different points of view I think one of the key differences of course is that our colleagues in Westminster are for the time being on the opposition benches we're in the Government we are leading our country we have Government responsibilities and the FAW are very clear that they want to be alongside the Welsh Government as they take their journey on this global stage and we have opportunities to promote and project our values as I've set out and to engage in the country in a different way because we are in the Government and that's what we are choosing to do it's all the engagement we've already had that I set out with not just LGBTQ plus groups but also with the international TUC about workers' rights in the country and the international TUC were clear that they supported Welsh Government ministers physically attending in the presence and they want to see the progress has been made to date in Qatar both recognised but built upon as well they're very keen that this doesn't all come to a halt when the tournament ends so we're listening and we're engaging we're reflecting and recognising the fact that this is not the straightforward position for people whether they're interested in party politics or not and a very specific issue the Welsh Government as you said represents is representing all the people of Wales amongst them Alison Patterson whose daughter Lauren Patterson was raped and killed in Doha she's asked the teams to use their involvement in the world cup to highlight her daughter's case and remember what happened to her will you use your visits also to highlight her case and and make sure people don't forget that particular case Well I'm only aware of the headlines of the case Adrian and I thought this was a father myself about what you would think and feel if something happened to your own child of any age and I really am truly sorry for the family for what they have already gone to understand why they'd make the call I think it'll be a matter for the team what they decide to do but I'll certainly be interested because I know this is an issue that's arisen today that you're covering and I think it's a good thing that you are I'll be interested in getting a much clearer briefing on what's happened and if there are opportunities for us to talk about it and indeed to have a conversation with the First Minister as well Thank you Adrian I think those are the three sets of journeys today and no doubt there'll be more interest at the car later on and in the less than a week before we start I will campaign against the USA Thank you very much everybody