Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the remarks by the President of the United States of America in which he stated that Pakistan is "one of the most dangerous nations in the world" for having "nuclear weapons without any cohesion".

Nuclear security and safety around the world are issues of vital importance and we raise them regularly with international partners including Pakistan. Pakistan is an important partner in building regional security and we hold a regular counter-proliferation dialogue with them as part of the UK's international commitment to the preservation of effective international arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation.