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date	01/07/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	EU Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether it is legally possible for each other EU member state to commit to a future change to the Lisbon Treaty before formal processes to agree those changes have been gone through in each of those countries.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Ms Gisela Stuart
uin	5191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The process for amending the EU Treaties is set out in Article 48 of the Treaty on European Union. The representatives of the Member State governments agree the amendments which then need to be ratified by all the Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements. The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), has been clear that the EU reforms that we seek must be legally binding and irreversible and that there must be an agreement to change the treaties before the referendum in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 06/07/2015 15:59:51 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	296 label Biography information for Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston

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date	01/07/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Burma: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has requested the UN Security-General to lead personally negotiations on securing unrestricted humanitarian access in Rakhine State, Burma.
tabling member constituency	Sutton and Cheam
tabling member printed	Paul Scully
uin	5236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>The United Kingdom continues to encourage a wider UN leadership role to help bring peace and reconciliation to all communities in Rakhine State. We welcome the firm personal stand the UN Secretary General has already taken on the Rohingya. During his visit to Burma in November 2014, he publicly expressed his concern about the discrimination and violence they face, and called for the human rights and dignity of all the people in Rakhine to be respected. During the recent crisis in the Andaman Sea, he called President Thein Sein on 20 May to make clear his concerns. The UN Secretary General also presided over a meeting of the International Partnership Group on Burma on 24 April. <br><br>More widely, the UK is actively keeping Rakhine and the situation of the Rohingya high on the international agenda and within the UN system. With UK support, the situation in Rakhine was discussed at a UN Security Council briefing on 28 May, and the UK was instrumental in securing strong UN Resolutions on Burma at the UN General Assembly in November and the Human Rights Council in March. The latter resolution extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights. In Burma, Professor Yanghee Lee, who has highlighted the plight of the Rohingya in her reports. The Government invited Professor Lee to the UK in March, where she discussed the situation in Rakhine with the Minister of State, my noble Friend the right hon. Baroness Anelay of St Johns. <br><br>We will continue to engage closely with the UN system to maintain a focus on this important issue.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 07/07/2015 13:43:29 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully