Burma: International Assistance

(asked on 18th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations she has made to her counterpart in the Myanmar Government on ensuring unhindered aid access to all areas of the Rakhine state.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 25th October 2017

The UK has been leading the international response to the Rohingya crisis, and I have made repeated calls for humanitarian access. On my behalf, DFID officials met Burmese Government ministers to discuss constraints on assistance on the 4th, 14th, 22nd, 27th and 28th of September, and the 12th of October, and DFID met Rakhine state ministers to discuss access constraints on 30th August, and 26th September. We have ensured that language on humanitarian access has been included in UN Security Council discussions on Rakhine. Foreign Office Minister Mark Field was in Burma at the end of last month, where he raised access to both the Rakhine State Chief Minister and to the State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.

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