Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2023 to Question 122106 on Democratic Republic of Congo: Armed Conflict, whether he has called on the government of Rwanda to end the support for the M23 armed group that was found in the Midterm report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

As previously stated in the answer to question 122106, we have raised the findings of the report with the Government of Rwanda. When I [Minister Mitchell] spoke to both the Rwandan and the Democratic Republic of Congo Foreign Ministers, I [Minister Mitchell] urged both parties to meet the commitments made under Nairobi and Luanda political processes.