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	date	21/02/2019
	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	Sri Lanka: Politics and Government
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions, if any, the UK High Commissioner to Sri Lanka had in the Sri Lankan Parliament with the Speaker of the Parliament in the recent period when the Sri Lankan Parliament was prorogued.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL13955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>​The British High Commission received an invitation to an open briefing for Diplomatic Missions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 12 November. In line with the EU and other major diplomatic partners in Colombo our Head of Mission did not attend, although some partner countries sent more junior diplomatic staff.</p><p>The High Commissioner, together with other senior diplomats in Colombo, had one meeting with the Speaker in his office in Parliament during the period when Parliament was prorogued. During the period he and senior colleagues met the President and other Sri Lankan political leaders on a number of occasions.</p><p>We were deeply concerned by the recent political developments in Sri Lanka, and made statements on 26 and 29 October, and 9 November, calling on all parties to uphold the constitution and due legal and political process. We also made a statement on 17 December, welcoming the steps that were taken to resolve the crisis, which has now led to the appointment of a Cabinet of Ministers. The outcome is a welcome demonstration of the resilience of Sri Lanka's judicial and democratic institutions, and of effective checks and balances between state powers. The UK will continue to stand by Sri Lanka as a close partner and friend, supporting Sri Lanka as it works to deliver sustainable and accountable reform, to improve governance and safeguard human rights.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL13954 question first answered 28/02/2019 15:54:32 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

1064790

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2019
	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	Sri Lanka: Politics and Government
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the UK High Commissioner to Sri Lanka was invited to the diplomatic briefing chaired by the Sri Lankan Minister for Foreign Affairs on 12 November 2018; and if so, whether he attended that briefing.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL13954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>​The British High Commission received an invitation to an open briefing for Diplomatic Missions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 12 November. In line with the EU and other major diplomatic partners in Colombo our Head of Mission did not attend, although some partner countries sent more junior diplomatic staff.</p><p>The High Commissioner, together with other senior diplomats in Colombo, had one meeting with the Speaker in his office in Parliament during the period when Parliament was prorogued. During the period he and senior colleagues met the President and other Sri Lankan political leaders on a number of occasions.</p><p>We were deeply concerned by the recent political developments in Sri Lanka, and made statements on 26 and 29 October, and 9 November, calling on all parties to uphold the constitution and due legal and political process. We also made a statement on 17 December, welcoming the steps that were taken to resolve the crisis, which has now led to the appointment of a Cabinet of Ministers. The outcome is a welcome demonstration of the resilience of Sri Lanka's judicial and democratic institutions, and of effective checks and balances between state powers. The UK will continue to stand by Sri Lanka as a close partner and friend, supporting Sri Lanka as it works to deliver sustainable and accountable reform, to improve governance and safeguard human rights.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL13955 question first answered 28/02/2019 15:54:32 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

1051967

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	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	Sri Lanka: Armed Conflict
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they now have any revised estimate of the number of civilians killed between 1 January and 18 May 2009 in the war between the Sri Lankan armed forced forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, since the Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on accountability in Sri Lanka, published on 31 March 2011, was published.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL13298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom co-sponsored the 2014 UN Human Rights Council resolution, which established an investigation into allegations of serious violations and abuses of human rights during the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. We welcomed the publication of the report in September 2015. British officials were in regular contact with the UN throughout this period. The report concluded that there were reasonable grounds to believe that gross violations of international human rights law, serious violations of international humanitarian law, and international crimes were committed by all parties. Although different reports have given different figures for the total number of deaths, the fact that many thousands died during the final stage of the conflict is not in dispute.</p><p>It is for the Government of Sri Lanka to determine the final casualty figures through a comprehensive independent truth seeking commission, as they have undertaken to do. The commitments that Sri Lanka made to the UN Human Rights Council in October 2015, and again in March 2017, are the best way to establish the truth, and to achieve justice, restitution, and lasting reconciliation.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL13295 HL13296 HL13297 question first answered 07/02/2019 16:15:17 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby