Premier Ewart Brown and UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband are due to meet this morning to talk about a number of issues.

While visiting the Spirit of Bermuda yesterday, Mr. Miliband said they will be having breakfast today.

Asked if he hoped the two would see eye to eye on the Uighur issue, which strained tensions between the two countries when Dr. Brown allowed four former Guantánamo Bay detainees relocate to the Island without informing the UK, Mr. Miliband said: "Dr. Brown and I have been working very well together on a whole range of things, but I am not going to discuss what I will be saying through the media."

Mr. Miliband is on the Island accompanying the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh as they celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Island's settlement.

Speaking about his trip in general, Mr. Miliband said: "It has gone great. People have been incredibly welcoming. There is a strong sense of pride for the Queen."

In June the Premier brought four Uighurs, who had spent seven years in the US's notorious Guantánamo Bay internment camp, to the Island, calling it a humanitarian act.

The four men had been twice cleared of being enemy combatants by US authorities, but the US refused to take them. They have since been given permits enabling them to work as groundsmen at Port Royal Golf Course and are said to be settling well into life on the Island after more than seven years at Guantánamo.

At the time, Mr. Miliband and Governor Sir Richard Gozney said Dr. Brown had no authority to accept the Uighurs, as the matter involved external affairs and was outside the remit of the Bermuda Government.

In September, the last time Mr. Miliband and the Premier met, Dr. Brown was told the UK's belief that the Guantánamo Bay Uighurs should not have been brought to Bermuda remained unchanged.