Part of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office – in the House of Commons at on 30 November 2021.
Vicky Ford
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
As I have said, the situation is incredibly challenging. When I spoke to Minister Redwan, I urged him to end the mobilisation of civilians and ethnically targeted arrests. There is a growing risk of uncontrollable ethnic violence, which is doing huge long-term damage to the social cohesion of the country. As I said in my statement on
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