Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his international counterparts on the (a) detention of political prisoners and (b) human rights situation in Myanmar.

Although the UK has no political engagement with the military regime, the UK regularly raises the human rights situation in Myanmar with international partners and in multilateral fora. We continue to condemn the ongoing human rights violations by the military regime and call for the release of all those arbitrarily detained, including in the landmark United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution, which the UK coordinated in December 2022. The UK reiterated this demand in the G7 Leader's statement in May. The UK has co-sponsored a number of UN Human Rights Council resolutions, including one in April, which condemned the military regime's human rights violations. On 17 October, I (Minister Trevelyan) plan to join and co-convene a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) High Level Meeting on Rohingya Refugees, where I will reiterate UK support for the Rohingya community and the need for sustainable solutions to improve the conditions in Rakhine State.