Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether Turkmenistan remains a country of concern in relation to human rights; and when his Department's next annual Human Rights and Democracy Report will be published.

The annual Human Rights and Democracy Report for 2014 will be published before parliament is dissolved. Prior to publication, the status of all Countries of Concern is being reviewed. We continue to have significant concerns about the human rights situation in Turkmenistan.