Middle East

(asked on 15th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce tension in the on-going conflict between Israel and Palestine.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 22nd July 2014

We are working to secure a ceasefire, to alleviate humanitarian suffering, and to keep alive the prospects for peace negotiations which are the only hope of breaking this cycle of violence and devastation once and for all. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) spoke with the Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on 18 July and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on 19 July. The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) also spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on 20 July.

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