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Written Question
Burma: Politics and Government
Tuesday 11th September 2018

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the political and security situation in Myanmar.

Answered by Mark Field

​The situation in Burma remains of real concern. On 27 August, the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission declared that the conduct of the military in Rakhine in August and September 2017 constituted grounds for the prosecution of members of the Burma military for crimes against humanity and genocide. The Foreign Secretary intends to visit Burma and convene a meeting at the UN General Assembly to press for accountability for human rights violations and the creation of conditions in Rakhine State that would allow refugees to return.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 24 May 2018
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Henry. I place on record my thanks to the Chairman of Ways and Means, who allowed this debate to be facilitated before the House goes into …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 24 May 2018
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

"I agree. It remains Labour party policy, and indeed Government policy, to support a two-state solution, which is the only way forward for Israel and Palestine...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 24 May 2018
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

"Of course, I understand hon. Members’ and indeed wider society’s concerns about the two-state solution and their frustration about its achievement, but I do not see a one-state solution as a possibility— I do not envisage that ever being acceptable to Israel. From conversations I have had with the Israeli …..."
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Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

"I could not agree more. The health system in Gaza has long been under extreme pressure and on the brink of collapse, but now the medicines and materials needed to treat the wounded are dwindling. My hon. Friend mentioned several of those, and even saline solution is in short supply...."
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Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

"I recently visited Palestine and was unable to visit Gaza, so that would be very welcome...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 24 May 2018
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

"Absolutely. The ongoing psychosocial, as well as physiological, implications of the woundings around the protest and of continued life under the blockade and the occupation cast a very long shadow for the entire Palestinian people. I believe Save the Children did a recent survey of children in Gaza and found …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 24 May 2018
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

"Each of us—every person in this world—has a fundamental human right to peaceful protest. Is it any wonder that ordinary people living in Gaza want to go and exercise that right, given the situation and the lives they are living?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 24 May 2018
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

"Yes. The illegal blockade and the continuing occupation of Gaza by the Israeli Government are a fundamental part of the issue facing Gaza.

If our Government are unwilling or unable to put pressure on the Israeli Government to ease some of the causes of the humanitarian situation, we have a …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 24 May 2018
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation

"I assume the Minister is not equating the US’s decision to move its embassy with the UK’s potential decision to recognise the state of Palestine. Does he accept that Palestine feels abandoned by the international community and by a country that, wrongly, it felt it could rely on for support? …..."
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