Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:59 pm on 9 February 2016.
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Crossbench
2:59,
9 February 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they intend to respond to the resolutions of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe condemning the actions of Daesh/ISIS in the Middle East as genocide.
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