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HANSARDDeveloping World: Debt ReductionAs ever, my noble friend makes a very good point. If we look back at the successful programmes that there were, such as the heavily indebted poor countries initiative, we see that…13 Feb 2024HANSARDDeveloping World: Debt ReductionOne of the most important ways to counter it is by offering an alternative, so that when countries are developing there are other offers on the table. That is why the expansion of…13 Feb 2024HANSARDDeveloping World: Debt ReductionWe have doubled our commitments to climate finance. One of the successes of COP was that the climate finance funds are now considerable, running into many billions. I identify the…13 Feb 2024HANSARDDeveloping World: Debt ReductionMy Lords, we set out our commitments on developing countries’ debt in our international development White Paper. The Treasury and FCDO regularly engage with international partners…13 Feb 2024HANSARDDeveloping World: Debt ReductionI thank the noble Lord for his question. We are happy to accept the IMF definition of debt sustainability and to use it as a baseline. We are happy to look at other ideas but,…13 Feb 2024HANSARDAUKUS Security PartnershipMy Lords, AUKUS is an unprecedented partnership that is central to delivering security and prosperity for the UK and our partners in the Indo-Pacific and the Euro-Atlantic. We are…13 Feb 2024HANSARDDeveloping World: Debt ReductionFirst, I congratulate the noble Lord on joining a club of which I am a member, in being personally sanctioned by Vladimir Putin. It is a badge I wear with honour, and I am sure he…13 Feb 2024HANSARDPalestinian State: UK RecognitionWhat my noble friend Lord Ahmad and I are doing—we are virtually joined at the hip when we are not travelling separately to the region—is talking to all the partners in the region…13 Feb 2024HANSARDPalestinian State: UK RecognitionAfter I made my statement, which is absolutely in line with our long-standing policy that recognition should come when it gives the maximum impetus and input to a solution, the…13 Feb 2024HANSARDPalestinian State: UK RecognitionThe noble Lord asks an extremely good question. We have to try to help to separate the Palestinian people from Hamas. One of the best ways of doing that, apart from making sure…13 Feb 2024HANSARDPalestinian State: UK RecognitionThe noble Lord makes a very important point. If you look across the world and ask yourself, “Where’s the biggest refugee crisis?”, it is not in Israel or in the Palestinian…13 Feb 2024HANSARDPalestinian State: UK RecognitionI thank the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury for his question. First, he is absolutely right to say that we should focus on what is happening in the West Bank as…13 Feb 2024HANSARDIsrael and GazaWe are looking at every single way of getting aid in. Of course, there are maritime options, and we had a ship leaving Cyprus and taking aid to Port Said in Egypt. The so-called…16 Jan 2024HANSARDRules-based International OrderOne of the reasons for supporting a rules-based order is that it enables you to call out other countries when they fail to live up to it. That is exactly what we have done in the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDRules-based International OrderWe do have a coalition of not only those countries taking part in Operation Prosperity Guardian in the Red Sea, but all those countries supporting it. Again, even when it came to…16 Jan 2024HANSARDRules-based International OrderNo. I am saying that in the modern world, where you have the ubiquity of mobile phones and mass cheap travel, countries have to make a decision about how to deal with illegal…16 Jan 2024HANSARDRules-based International OrderI certainly support engaging with civil society at the United Nations Security Council, as we have been doing. I will look very carefully at what Secretary-General Guterres has…16 Jan 2024HANSARDRules-based International OrderMy Lords, that is an excellent question but difficult to answer. Fundamentally, we are in almost all these networks—we are in the G7, the G20 and the OECD, we are the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDRules-based International OrderWe do not believe that the Rwanda scheme is contrary to international law. I would characterise it by saying that things like the refugee convention were written for another age,…16 Jan 2024HANSARDRules-based International OrderObviously no one likes a coalition more than I do.16 Jan 2024