Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has received from his counterparts in (a) the European Commission and (b) EU member states on human rights abuses against the (i) Syrian and (ii) Kurdish people.

​We are in regular dialogue with the European Commission and other member states on the human rights situation in Syria, including coordinating with them on human rights resolutions on Syria at the UN Human Rights Council and at the UN General Assembly. We have received no representations from the European Commission or EU member states on human rights abuses against the Syrian people or the Kurdish minority in Syria or elsewhere.