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Written Question
Guinea-Bissau: Military Coups
Friday 19th December 2025

Asked by: Lord Teverson (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recent military intervention following elections in Guinea-Bissau; and what (1) actions they intend to take, or (2) representations they intend to make to representatives in Guinea-Bissau following the recent military intervention in elections.

Answered by Baroness Chapman of Darlington - Minister of State (Development)

I refer the Noble Lord to the answer I provided on 15 December to Question HL12476.

Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 28 Nov 2022
UNCLOS: The Law of the Sea in the 21st Century (International Relations and Defence Committee Report)

"My Lords, I should declare a non-financial interest as a patron of the British charity, Human Rights at Sea.

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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 20 Oct 2022
China: Security and Trade (IRDC Report)

"My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Howell, and his wise words, particularly on Chinese influence in Africa and beyond, because that is where the cut in our foreign aid budget has quite substantially taken away the power, prominence and respect that we had …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 12 Jul 2022
United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Exclusions from Market Access Principles: Single-Use Plastics) Regulations 2022

"My Lords, perhaps I could just take up a theme from the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, around the leadership campaign that is going on at the moment at the other end of the Palace, and to thank the Minister for intervening in that debate and reminding people, along …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 12 Jul 2022
United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Exclusions from Market Access Principles: Single-Use Plastics) Regulations 2022

"I thank the Minister for his speech, because most of us would absolutely agree with it. I would have made the same speech during the passage of the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill, when the Government rejected including natural capital and biodiversity in the objectives of the UK Infrastructure Bank. That …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Mar 2022
Minister for the Oceans

"My Lords, in terms of international humanitarian law, how would a future Oceans Minister reconcile our signature to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the safety of life at sea convention with the Government’s policy to push back vessels to outside national boundaries?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Sanctions

"My Lords, is the Minister having sufficient conversations with our overseas territories and Crown dependencies to make sure that none of our financial sanctions is bypassed in any way?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Oil Tanker “FSO Safer”

"My Lords, to follow on from the noble Lord, Lord Walney, the answer to this possibly lies through those who control the Houthis. We all know that they are dependent to a large degree on Iran. We have diplomatic relations with Tehran; we sometimes forget that. Can the Minister say …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 18 Jan 2022
EU-UK Partnership Council

"My Lords, technically the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly will cover only the trade and co-operation agreement, yet some of the key issues between the UK and the EU are within the withdrawal agreement—not least Northern Ireland and, most importantly to MPs and Members of this House, UK and EU citizens’ rights. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Peat

"My Lords, I am interested to understand how the Government reconcile allowing commercial peat exploitation while at the same time the Exchequer, and thus taxpayers, are paying millions of pounds for peatland restoration...."
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