Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had with his US counterpart on a possible referral of the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court.

Following the release of the UN Fact Finding Mission summary report on 27 August, UK officials urgently discussed the report and its recommendations with US officials. These include the recommendations that the Security Council refers to about the situation in Burma, to the International Criminal Court. The Foreign Secretary and I addressed accountability with the US and, a range of other counterparts at the UN General Assembly in late September. Our assessment is that there is still insufficient support within the Security Council for referral to the ICC. We will continue to keep this under constant review.