Zimbabwe: Asylum Seekers Debate
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Lord Campbell-Savours
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Zimbabwe: Asylum Seekers
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
On looking at in-country briefs, clearly my department is not the FCO but I am aware of some of the information and advice that the FCO gives to people going to certain countries. To go to an area in Zimbabwe experiencing civil unrest might not be a great idea. The Home Office is aware of certain things, but clearly my colleagues in the Foreign Office would be more sighted on that.
Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Does the Minister draw a distinction between civil unrest and civil repression?
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Both might go on. I am not trying to say at this Dispatch Box that the situation in Zimbabwe is in any way ideal. It is not. The Government have made representations through our embassy in Harare on the situation in Zimbabwe. I am not trying to pretend that the situation is in any way ideal.