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349138

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	date	09/06/2015
	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: Rohingya
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to prevent the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar; and when they last held discussions with the government of Myanmar on this subject.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL354
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>We have raised our serious concern at the situation of the Rohingya community in all of our recent Ministerial contacts with the Burmese government. On 18 May, the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right Hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Mr Swire), called the Burmese Ambassador in London to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to express our concern at the situation of Rohingya and the related migrant crisis in the Bay of Bengal. He made clear the need for Burma to work towards a long-term solution that brings peace and reconciliation and ensures the civil and human rights of all communities within Rakhine State. The UK is one of the largest bilateral humanitarian donors in Rakhine State. We have invested over £18m in humanitarian support there since 2012.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 17/06/2015 14:19:02 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

349137

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Recruitment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to recruit Russian experts to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; and how many fluent Russian speakers have been recruited since March 2015.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>Since 2010 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has increased from 43 to 56 the number of Russian speakers posted to Russia and the former Soviet Union. Full language training is given to all FCO officers who require it for their postings.</p><p> </p><p>We have also launched an Eastern Europe and Central Asia cadre of experts in March of this year – already counting 400 members – designed to pool experience and underpin a first class foreign policy towards Russia and the region.</p><p> </p><p>We have also re-opened the FCO Language School that had been closed down in 2007.</p><p> </p><p>Although we have recruited no Russian speakers since March 2015, we expect three Russian speakers to join the FCO later this year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 17/06/2015 14:18:06 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian