Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether ministers or officials met (1) Ignatius Aphrem II, the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, or (2) Mr Salih Muslim Muhammad, co-leader of the Democratic Union Party in Syria, during their recent visits to London; and if so, what they discussed.

No Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ministers met Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II or Mr Salih Muslim Muhammad during their recent visits to London. Officials attended public events at which the individuals spoke but did not engage in dialogue in either instance.