Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has discussed the Burmese government and the provision of aid to ethnic Rohingya in Burma with the UN Secretary General.

I raised the situation in Rakhine State with the UN Secretary General at his "Friends of Myanmar" meeting in September 2013, and our Permanent Representative in New York has done so subsequently on a number of occassions with the Secretary General's Special Advisor Vijay Nambiar. We also work closely with the UN Resident Coordinator in Burma and UN agencies in Burma to discuss the provision of aid to the ethnic Rohingya in Burma.