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date	21/05/2019
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	Bougainville: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has plans to send election observers to monitor the forthcoming Bougainvillean independence referendum in October 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	256984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>​The British Government is fully committed to supporting the Bougainville Peace Process, including the forthcoming referendum. We are contributing £95,000 to the UN's Bougainville Referendum Support Project, and have shared our expertise on post-conflict reconciliation, including from Northern Ireland. We have yet to receive an invitation to deploy election observers but stand ready to help ensure a free, fair and peaceful vote.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 04/06/2019 09:56:17 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

1127806

registered interest
date	21/05/2019
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	Vietnam: Freedom of Expression and Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Vietnamese counterpart on the (a) number of prisoners of conscience and (b) freedom of expression in that country.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	256985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>The UK is concerned at restrictions on freedom of expression in Vietnam. We have regularly raised these issues at the United Nations and bilaterally with the Government of Vietnam.</p><p>We raised concerns about freedom of expression and assembly, the treatment of prisoners and the protection of civil society in Vietnam during Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review in January 2019, and again in a UN Human Rights Council Item 2 Statement in March 2019.</p><p>Bilaterally, I raised freedom of expression at the UK-Vietnam High Level Political Dialogue in January 2019. Ahead of the Media Freedom Conference in July 2019, the UK will continue to raise media freedom with the Vietnamese government.</p><p>​</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 04/06/2019 09:59:34 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman