Foreign and Commonwealth Office written question – answered at on 16 January 2020.
Jack Lopresti
Conservative, Filton and Bradley Stoke
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the late General Qasem Soleimani's involvement in Lebanon.
Andrew Murrison
Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (Joint with the Department for International Development)
As the Prime Minister has said, Qasem Soleimani posed a threat to all our interests and was responsible for a pattern of disruptive, destabilising behaviour in the region.
Yes3 people think so
No2 people think not
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