Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last met his Sri Lankan counterpart; and the subjects that were discussed at that meeting.

I have not yet met my Sri Lankan counterpart but I look forward to doing so in the near future and I am hoping to visit Sri Lanka within the next month. My predecessor, now Minister of State for Housing and Planning, met the then Foreign Minister during bilateral discussions at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 28 February 2017. Their talks focused on Sri Lanka's co-sponsorship of Resolution 34/1 and how Sri Lanka could deliver on its international commitments on human rights and reconciliation.