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910206

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
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	Moldova: Foreign Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last met his Moldovan counterpart; and what issues were discussed at that meeting.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	147319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Foreign Minister Ulianovschi is scheduled to visit the UK next month. I plan to meet with him as part of the visit programme. We have been supporting Moldova’s ambitious reform programme for a number of years and are working towards a strong post-Brexit relationship with Moldova including through the transition of the EU’s international agreements to ensure continuity in our partnership.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/06/2018 16:15:03 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

910207

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
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	Greece: Foreign Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last met his Greek counterpart; and what issues were discussed at that meeting.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	147320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary last met Mr Nikolaos Kotzias, Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs, at the EU Foreign Affairs Council on 19 March. They discussed issues of mutual interest to the UK and Greece. I aslo attended the FAC with him on Monday 28th May.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/06/2018 14:21:20 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

909052

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Saudi Arabia: Women's Rights
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 made representations to his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the recent detention of leading women’s rights activists in that country.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	146093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>​We are concerned by reports of these arrests and are monitoring them closely. The Foreign Secretary has raised our concerns with the Saudi authorities.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/05/2018 16:12:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

906335

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
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	Saudi Arabia: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions has he had with his Saudi Arabian counterpart on respect for human rights in that country.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	145270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>I last raised this range of issues with the Saudi authorities in February. The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary did likewise during a visit of the Crown Prince to the UK in March. We also raise our concerns about human rights with the Saudi authorities through our Ambassador and Embassy staff.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/05/2018 16:42:59 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

904698

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
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	Israel: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the international community to work together to speed up the process of peace between Palestine and Israel and develop a two state solution.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	144157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>At this highly sensitive time in the region, there is an urgent need to restart the peace process between Israel and Palestine. We regularly press both parties to resume direct negotiations towards a two-state solution. The Foreign Secretary spoke to the Palestinian Authority President Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on 16 May and reiterated the need for progress.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/05/2018 16:50:59 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

904005

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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	Iran: Foreign Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve UK relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	143652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>In recent years the UK has gradually re-established its relations with Iran, reopening the British Embassy in Tehran in 2015 and upgrading to Ambassador-level representation in 2016. Since then we there have been developments in a variety of areas ranging from establishing a UK visa service in Tehran to supporting UK-Iranian trade links. Ministers have also established a regular dialogue which supports engagement on a wide range of challenging issues, including nuclear and regional matters. We committed to upholding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as long as Iran continues to fulfil its commitments under it.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/05/2018 16:08:23 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

904007

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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	Saudi Arabia: LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations his Department has made to the Government of Saudi Arabia on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in that country.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	143653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>Saudi Arabia remains a Foreign and Commonwealth Office human rights priority country. Ministers regularly discuss our concerns on a range of human rights issues with the Saudi Arabian Government.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/05/2018 16:17:34 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

897975

registered interest
date	04/05/2018
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	South Sudan: Peace Negotiations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage all parties to participate in the peace process in South Sudan.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	141307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>The UK continues to put pressure on all sides to engage constructively with the next phase of the High Level Revitalisation Forum of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), scheduled for May.</p><p>We strongly condemn ongoing violations of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, signed in December, by all parties including the Government. We urge IGAD to take immediate action to ensure that those who undermine the peace process, face consequences for their actions, to leave the parties in no doubt about the region's commitment to peace.</p><p>We played a leading role in securing EU sanctions in February to discourage obstruction of the process and to incentivise positive engagement, and continue to call for a UN arms embargo on South Sudan.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 10/05/2018 15:05:28 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

896348

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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: Minority Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Myanmar on the treatment of minority communities in that country’s Rakhine and Kachin provinces.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	140569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary raised his concerns about the treatment of the Rohingya of Rakhine State when he met State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on 11 February. He pressed her Government to take action in Rakhine to ensure Rohingya refugees would feel safe to return, and to investigate allegations of human rights violations. The Minister for Asia and the Pacific reiterated these messages in his meeting with the Burmese Ambassador on 6 March.</p><p>Following his visit to Kachin State in January 2018, the British Ambassador raised with the Burmese Defence Minister our concerns about renewed fighting and military restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian relief to ethnic Kachin communities. The Minister for Asia and the Pacific called on 28 April for the Burmese military to show restraint and to protect civilians in Kachin following the recent surge in fighting between the military and the Kachin Independence Army.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 09/05/2018 16:49:14 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

894844

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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	Syria: White Helmets
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much financial assistance was provided by the Government to the organisation Syria Civil Defence in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	139383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>In the last five years (from June 2013 until 31 March 2018) the UK provided £38m of support to Syria Civil Defence (also known as the White Helmets) through the cross-departmental conflict Pool and its successor, the Conflict Stability and Security Fund.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 03/05/2018 15:07:24 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham