Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Russia on the reported abduction of Oleg Kozlovsky.

Immediately following the reports in October of Kozlovsky’s abduction and torture, the UK Government worked with the EU to issue a joint statement to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. In this statement, we called on the Russian authorities to conduct an investigation, and to bring to justice the perpetrators of the attack

I note that the Russian authorities subsequently began a criminal investigation in December. The international community awaits the results of this investigation.