Somalia
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Madeleine Moon (Bridgend, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether NATO will be represented at the London Somalia conference in February 2012; and if he will make a statement.

Henry Bellingham (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Africa and the United Nations), Foreign and Commonwealth Office; North West Norfolk, Conservative)
Given the political, regional security and humanitarian focus of the Conference, and against tight space restrictions, we invited countries and multilateral organisations to take part who are active across the range of areas that the Conference discussed: Political Process, Security, Counter-terrorism, Piracy, Local Stability, Humanitarian and International Co-ordination. NATO were not represented at the
