Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his (a) US, (b) Moroccan, (c) Mauritanian and (d) Algerian counterpart on the disputed sovereignty of Western Sahara.

We are closely monitoring the situation in Western Sahara. We are in close contact with a range of interlocutors, including the parties to the dispute and fellow members of the UN Security Council. We continue to urge the parties to avoid further escalation, return to the ceasefire agreement, and re-engage with the UN-led political process.