Burma
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Written answers and statements, 4 November 2009
Keith Simpson (- Shadow Minister, Foreign Affairs; Mid Norfolk, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with his French counterpart on EU sanctions on Burma; and if he will make a statement.
Ivan Lewis (Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs), Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Bury South, Labour)
My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary discussed this issue with his French counterpart at a meeting on
France has consistently given its support to calls for the immediate, unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi, together with all other political prisoners in Burma, and agreed that the EU should respond with additional, targeted financial and other measures when the guilty verdict was delivered in the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi on
Most recently, the Foreign Secretary and the French Foreign Minister were present at the UN meeting on Burma chaired by the Secretary-General on