North Korea

(asked on 17th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether (a) his Department and (b) UK-contracted organisations have been able freely to choose the participants in UK-funded projects in North Korea.


Answered by
Lord Swire Portrait
Lord Swire
This question was answered on 21st November 2014

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office runs a range of programmes in the DPRK which support our country objectives. It is not possible to run projects in the DPRK without the agreement and cooperation of the DPRK authorities. When project proposals are discussed with the DPRK authorities, we identify which organisations we judge would be the most appropriate participants in the project. The DPRK authorities then nominate individual participants. We of course retain the right to reject participants and to withdraw funding if we are not satisfied.

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