Ecuador and Peru: Earthquakes

(asked on 22nd March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) Ecuador and (b) Peru following the earthquake on 18 March 2023.


Answered by
David Rutley Portrait
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 27th March 2023

UK officials at the British Embassies in Quito and Lima have been monitoring developments following the earthquake on 18 March that affected Ecuador and Peru. Neither the Ecuadorean nor Peruvian governments have formally requested bilateral assistance from the UK. I [Minister Rutley] passed on my condolences to the Ecuadorean Foreign Minister and Minister for the Environment for the lives lost and casualties in Ecuador when they joined an event virtually, that I attended in person, on 22 March.

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