Found: The SCO consists of nine members, including China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will hold discussions with international partners on strengthening multilateral approaches to prevent the circumvention of sanctions against Russia through third countries.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK coordinates closely with the EU, US, G7 and other international partners to tackle circumvention via multilateral fora and strategic consultations. Senior officials attend the Sanctions Coordinators Forum in Brussels, most recently in February 2024 focusing on strengthening enforcement of Russia sanctions. With the EU, US and Japan we have agreed a list of 50 Common High Priority items; battlefield-critical components we are targeting through joint diplomatic engagement with third countries. With the US and EU we have jointly engaged with the UAE, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, and Serbia, to highlight circumvention risks and offer technical support.

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2023 to Question 1027 on Military Attachés, if he will publish an updated list of countries without a resident UK Defence Attache.

Answered by James Heappey

The Global Defence Network (GDN) utilises Resident and Non-Resident Defence Attachés (DA), who engage in Defence diplomacy in over three-quarters of the world’s nations. The table below has a list of countries covered on a Non-Residential Accreditations (NRA) basis, where a UK DA is not resident in country, but a DA elsewhere has the responsibility.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what diplomatic steps he is taking to prevent businesses from evading sanctions by exporting goods to Russia via third countries.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Working closely with G7 partners, we have stepped up our engagement with third countries to support them to tackle circumvention of UK sanctions. We have sent joint delegations to UAE, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Armenia, to highlight risks and offer technical support to government and business.

The UK Government supports businesses domestically to tackle sanctions evasion, including by publishing guidance for exporters and by publishing the "Common High Priority Items List" of goods critical to Russia's military. HMG is also standing up the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation, which will boost the enforcement and implementation of UK trade sanctions.

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the amount of drone equipment and heavy machinery going from the UK to Armenia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan which is then sent on to Russia.

Answered by Lord Offord of Garvel - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)

HMG has sanctioned every item that Ukraine has found Russia using on the battlefield to date. This includes goods that could be used for drones and heavy machinery.

We maintain a Common High Priority List (CHPL) of items critical to the Russian military, to thwart attempts to circumvent sanctions through third countries.

We continue to engage with relevant countries and monitor our exports for signs of circumvention, to do everything we can to ensure that sanctioned UK technologies do not make it to Russia.

Found: Honduras India Indonesia* Iran Iraq Jamaica Kazakhstan Kenya Korea (North) Kosovo Kyrgyzstan

Found: Honduras India Indonesia* Iran Iraq Jamaica Kazakhstan Kenya Korea (North) Kosovo Kyrgyzstan

Found: Honduras India Indonesia* Iran Iraq Jamaica Kazakhstan Kenya Korea (North) Kosovo Kyrgyzstan

Found: Honduras India Indonesia* Iran Iraq Jamaica Kazakhstan Kenya Korea (North) Kosovo Kyrgyzstan

Found: UK–Kyrgyzstan development partnership summary

Found: long-term, $1.2 billion energy transmission infrastructure programme, which will link hydroelectric dams in Kyrgyzstan

Found: Ireland Poland Australia Malta Slovenia New Zealand Montenegro Iceland Canada Netherlands Denmark Italy Kyrgyzstan

Found: Macedonia Georgia Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kosovo Kyrgyzstan

Found: Honduras India Indonesia* Iran Iraq Jamaica Kazakhstan Kenya Korea (North) Kosovo Kyrgyzstan

Found: Poland, Romania Rejected 1 Ukraine SITCL Croatia Issued 3 Ukraine SITCL Germany Issued 1 Ukraine SITCL Kyrgyzstan

Found: Building creative links in higher education Working in seven countries – Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan