Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what position the United Kingdom took at the Conference of Parties to the Geneva Convention held in Geneva on 17 December 2014, and whether they made a statement following that Conference.

The UK is firmly committed to the promotion of compliance with International Humanitarian Law and upholding the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols. The UK did not issue a national statement following the conference on 17 December in Geneva. However, we stressed the importance of the conference taking a balanced and non- politicised approach. We also agreed an EU statement, which calls on all sides to fully and effectively respect the Fourth Geneva Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.