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177273

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the analysis by Human Rights Watch of the effects of Burma’s citizenship law on the status and rights of the Rohingya.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
uin	HL4640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2015 answer text <p>We share Human Rights Watch’s concerns over Burma’s 1982 Citizenship Law and its impact on the Rohingya community. We have consistently urged the Burmese authorities to undertake rapid action to address the citizenship status of the Rohingya through a transparent, inclusive and consistent process in line with international standards. We have always been clear that, regardless of citizenship status, the human rights of all individuals in Rakhine must be fully respected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 13/02/2015 15:29:11 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

177278

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Eritrea
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the assurances given by the government of Eritrea to the Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials who visited Eritrea in December 2014 that military service there will be limited to 18 months; and whether they will undertake analysis of the matter and report on the outcome.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
uin	HL4645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The Eritrean government decree (dated 23 October 1995) on national service provides for it to be eighteen months in duration. However, since the 1998-2002 war with Ethiopia, national service has been extended for many citizens over an unspecified period. We have regularly raised the importance of limiting national service with the Eritrean government, most recently in December 2014. Eritrean officials provided assurances that national service will now be strictly limited to 18 months. We welcome this decision but will continue to press the Eritrean government to live up to this commitment.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 12/02/2015 14:23:11 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

177279

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Egypt
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of Egypt concerning its reported plans for the forced eviction and demolition of homes of the population of Rafah.
tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
uin	HL4646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>We are aware of the extension of the buffer zone in North Sinai and are concerned by reports of the effect of this on the civilian population. We have raised on a number of occasions with the Government of Egypt the need for a human rights compliant approach to countering terrorism in this area, which addresses socioeconomic development as well as security needs.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 11/02/2015 14:01:13 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech

177280

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 6 January (HL3722), what assessment they have made of the kidnap and forcible conversion of Christians in Gaza and of attacks on Christian property there; and what evaluation they have made of the decrease in the Christian population in Gaza since 2007.
tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
uin	HL4647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) speaks to a range of Gazan interlocutors, including from the Christian community, on a regular basis. There have been no allegations raised with the FCO recently of kidnap and forcible conversions of Christians in the Gaza Strip. During 2014’s Operation Protective Edge, churches in Gaza opened to shelter displaced people from Christian and Muslim communities.</p><p>A survey conducted in 2014 by non-governmental organisations suggests that the Christian community decreased from 1375 in 2007 to 1313 in March 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 11/02/2015 14:50:31 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech

177282

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Russia: Ukraine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to encourage parties in Ukraine to release all hostages and prisoners of war as a preliminary to renewing the ceasefire there; and whether they will ask the governments of Russia and Ukraine to exercise full control over militias and informal armed groups now within Ukraine.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>We continue to call on all parties to implement in full the commitments they made under the ceasefire agreement reached in Minsk on 9 September 2014, including the immediate release of all hostages and unlawfully detained persons and the removal of unlawful military formations, military hardware, as well as militants and mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 11/02/2015 14:51:14 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

177283

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Transcaucasus and Ukraine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will request that the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances report what progress, if any, it is making on reported disappearances in the northern Caucasus and Ukraine.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>The UK is deeply concerned by reports of disappearances in the northern Caucasus and in Ukraine. The UK supports the work of the UN’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and recognises the important role it plays in investigating enforced disappearances. The Working Group has requested a visit to Russia and we strongly urge Russia to issue an invitation to allow them to make this visit and work unimpeded. We hope that the Working Group is able to provide an assessment of the situation in Ukraine in the future.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 11/02/2015 14:57:16 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

177298

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	India
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the authorities in India concerning the case of Soni Sori.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL4665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2015 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my previous answer of 6 November (HL2381).</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 13/02/2015 15:59:21 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

177299

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Belarus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the authorities in Belarus concerning the case of Ihar Tsikhanyuk.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL4666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>The UK has made no direct representation specifically on behalf of Mr Tsikhanyuk. Our Embassy in Minsk supports the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Belarus where possible. The UK regularly raises Belarus’s poor human rights record in meetings with Belarusian ministers and officials.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 11/02/2015 14:58:15 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

177300

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Honduras
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the authorities in Honduras concerning the case of Dina Meza.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL4667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2015 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my reponse of 5 November 2014 (HL2383).</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 13/02/2015 15:59:11 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

177508

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Cyprus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the Turkish government on locating people missing as a result of violence in Cyprus in 1974.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	223112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>We share the concerns of both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities over the missing persons following the events of 1974. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not had any recent discussions with the Turkish government about this, but we take very seriously the issue of missing persons in Cyprus. We supported UN Security Council Resolution 2197 renewing the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), which called upon all parties to provide more expeditious, full access to all areas. The UK also contributes to the work of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which supervises the implementation of the European Court of Human Rights judgement in Cyprus v Turkey of 2001 on missing persons. We strongly support the humanitarian work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in Cyprus, in which bi-communal teams undertake painstaking and sensitive work. So far, the remains of 568 individuals have been identified and returned to their families. We have supported the work of the CMP financially, donating US$220,133 bilaterally, while EU funding of the CMP, to which the UK contributes, totalled US$16,289,719 from 2006-14. In addition to this financial support, the UK facilitates the CMP by enabling it to work from a British-owned site in the Buffer Zone, thus easing its administration costs. The British High Commission in Nicosia remains in regular contact with the CMP to establish how the UK may further support its work.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 10/02/2015 15:27:48 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord