Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact for her policies of reports of the killing of five West Papuan civilians by Indonesian police in Dogiyai Regency; and what diplomatic steps she is taking to ensure that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is allowed to report from West Papua.

We are concerned about the recent increase in violence in Papua, including the fatalities in Dogiyai Regency. I visited Indonesia in February and underlined the importance the UK attaches to human rights and raised Papua directly with the Vice Foreign Minister Arif Havas Oegroseno. The UK supports a visit to Papua by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. We hope a date for a visit can be agreed soon and we have raised this via the UK Mission to the UN in Geneva.