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Martyn Day: .... It is quite clear that far more needs to be done than has been done to date. Although I am grateful for the Minister’s response, the fact that the UK Government are concerned and will call on Sri Lanka to deliver on its promises just does not cut it. We have heard all that before. We really need further action, particularly on sanctions, and we need to ensure that there is...
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives are all expected to hold elections at different levels in 2024. Elections in Nepal are expected in 2027. The UK believes transparent, democratic governance is in the interests of all people and the long-term stability of every nation. We raise the importance of free and fair elections in our discussions with South Asian governments,...
Stewart McDonald: To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the Answer of 21 November 2023 to Question 1621 on Sri Lanka: Ports, how much UK funding was allocated for infrastructure projects that received funding under the Belt and Road Initiative in each of the last 10 years.
Siobhain McDonagh: ...state enterprise that was sanctioned by the US Government and blacklisted for bribery by the World Bank. The Foreign Secretary was paid by the Chinese company to promote the building of a port in Sri Lanka, a country which has itself been accused of war crimes and where, since the end of the civil war in 2009, tens of thousands of disappeared people have still not been found. Does the...
Viscount Waverley: ...of double standards, ensuring that others consider history and lessons learned is something from which we could all benefit, including China. China’s strategy and practices towards Africa, Sri Lanka and, more latterly, the Solomon Islands are examples. The UK should not be caught out on a limb. The Government have a well-rehearsed backwards and forward series of strategies over China,...
Stewart McDonald: ...the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the potential use of the Colombo Port City project in Sri Lanka as a Chinese military outpost.
Janet Daby: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his Sri Lankan counterpart on water quality in the Northern Province.
Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...part engineered by the Chinese state to lend credibility to Chinese investment”. The Foreign Secretary will need to reflect on that and on the role that he played in the vast Port City Colombo in Sri Lanka—a signature project for Xi Jinping’s belt and road initiative—which, as Sir Iain Duncan Smith rightly pointed out, may one day act as a Chinese military outpost in the...
Alun Davies: ...and what it does to a society. In returning from Ukraine last week, I took time to visit Auschwitz. I first visited Auschwitz as a student, and I stood there with an American Jew and a friend from Sri Lanka. They both pointed out that neither of them would've survived. The memory of standing with them stays with me every day of my life. All too often we see the spectre of antisemitism...
Siobhain McDonagh: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help all people in northern Sri Lanka to have access to clean drinking water; and if he will make representations to his Sri Lankan counterpart on an independent investigation of the area around the Chunnakam power plant complex.
John Martin McDonnell: .... I also did so with regard to Saudi Arabia and its execution—tragically, it is still doing this—of members of the gay community. I have campaigned with others across the House with regard to Sri Lanka and the persecution of the Tamils, including the murder of a number of my constituents when they visited their families. I am doing the same at the moment with regard to Bahrain because...
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his Sri Lankan counterpart on the treatment of Sri Lankan nationals in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Andrew Rosindell: ...of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the purported persecution of the Tamil population in northern Sri Lanka.
Richard Holden: ...Korea Zimbabwe Falkland Islands Republic of North Macedonia Faroe Islands Singapore Work is currently progressing on arrangements with a further seven countries: Albania Moldova Sri Lanka Kosovo San Marino Malaysia Serbia I also recently met with an official delegation from Kenya to discuss existing arrangements with them as well.
Lord Swire: ...to come in. We cannot blame the Chinese for doing what we want to do, just because they are prepared to put the money on the table and we are not. Let me give noble Lords two examples. For example, Sri Lanka is in the newspapers today. There is much criticism of people attending a seminar to attract investment in the Gulf for the Port City Colombo because the funding is Chinese. The whole...
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: ...to ensure the safety of persecuted religious communities, including, of course, Ahmadi Muslims and Christians. At the most recent session of the council, which began last week, we called on Sri Lanka to respect its citizens’ rights to freely practise their faiths or beliefs. At the UN Security Council in June, we led with the United Arab Emirates on a resolution about tolerance, peace...
Lisa Nandy: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether Ministers in his Department have had recent discussions with the Sri Lankan Government on long-term economic (a) support and (b) reform in that country.
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle: ...of Georgia academic Kalyani Ramnath, author of Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962. It recounts how people from what are now India, Burma, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, who had traditionally moved freely around the Indian Ocean, were suddenly trapped—families divided, trade routes disrupted—by the imposition of the idea, imported from...
...; (m) Iran; (n) Iraq; (o) Libya; (p) Mali; (q) Myanmar (Burma); (r) Nicaragua; (s) Occupied Palestinian Territories; (t) Pakistan; (u) Russia; (v) Saudi Arabia; (w) Somalia; (x) South Sudan; (y) Sri Lanka; (z) Sudan; (aa) Syria; (ab) Turkmenistan; (ac) Uzbekistan; (ad) Venezuela; (ae) Yemen; (af) Zimbabwe. (2) The Secretary of State or the Minister for the Cabinet Office must produce a...
David Rutley: ...for Malta £712,335 Embassy of the Slovak Republic £691,720 High Commission for Mauritius £669,735 Embassy of Belgium £666,420 High Commission for the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka £652,120 Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco £651,790 Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania £650,505 Embassy of the Republic of Liberia £627,150 Embassy of Austria...
