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HANSARDMyanmar: Health WorkersI will reiterate the point I made. We applaud the Myanmar health professionals who are risking their lives to continue treating patients. We commend the NHS volunteers who are…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineMy Lords, I start by thanking my noble and right reverend friend Lord Harries for tabling this debate and highlighting these important issues. My noble friend Lord Ahmad of…07 Mar 2023HANSARDTurkey and Syria EarthquakesMy Lords, I will not go through all the figures that I cited in my response to the two Front-Bench contributions but I will make a couple of points, if I may. The first is that…06 Mar 2023HANSARDTurkey and Syria EarthquakesMy Lords, I cannot provide a direct answer because I do not know what advice has been sought or received by the Foreign Office. I will convey the noble Baroness’s question to my…06 Mar 2023HANSARDTurkey and Syria EarthquakesThe noble Lord makes the important point that Turkey has faced the brunt of this disaster. The vast majority of those people killed and displaced are in Turkey. The numbers…06 Mar 2023HANSARDTurkey and Syria EarthquakesMy Lords, I join both noble Lords and others in offering sincere condolences to all those affected by the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria last month. Today,…06 Mar 2023HANSARDGeorgia: Imprisonment of Mikhail SaakashviliMy Lords, the UK continues to work with Georgian partners to combat malign Russian influence, consistent with our efforts and our experience with Ukraine, the Baltic countries and…27 Feb 2023HANSARDGeorgia: Imprisonment of Mikhail SaakashviliMy Lords, we have been following closely the arrest and conviction of Nika Gvaramia. We note the concerns that have been raised about his case and media freedoms more generally in…27 Feb 2023HANSARDGeorgia: Imprisonment of Mikhail SaakashviliMy Lords, it is right that Russia has been, and remains, a deeply destabilising influence far beyond Ukraine and Georgia. Georgia is under sustained pressure from Russia, which,…27 Feb 2023HANSARDGeorgia: Imprisonment of Mikhail SaakashviliThe noble Lord is of course right. The broader context—the backdrop—is for the Georgian Government to act and behave in a manner that takes them forward towards their broader…27 Feb 2023HANSARDGeorgia: Imprisonment of Mikhail SaakashviliThe noble and right reverend Lord is right that the treatment of the former president has wider ramifications. While humanitarian concerns are clearly uppermost in our…27 Feb 2023HANSARDGeorgia: Imprisonment of Mikhail SaakashviliMy Lords, we are closely following events connected to the detention of former President Saakashvili. The Foreign Secretary raised Mr Saakashvili’s detention, highlighting…27 Feb 2023HANSARDGeorgia: Imprisonment of Mikhail SaakashviliThe Government absolutely share that view, which is why, in our representations to the Government of Georgia, we make the point that allegations and stories emerging in relation…27 Feb 2023HANSARDGeorgia: Imprisonment of Mikhail SaakashviliMy Lords, we will absolutely continue to press for progress on reforms in line with Georgia’s EU and NATO ambitions. I understand that further discussions will take place in the…27 Feb 2023HANSARDGeorgia: Imprisonment of Mikhail SaakashviliI can absolutely assure noble Lords that that is exactly what the UK is focusing on in our discussions with the Government of Georgia.27 Feb 2023HANSARDGeorgia: Imprisonment of Mikhail SaakashviliThe noble and right reverend Lord’s earlier comments are absolutely noted in relation to the influence in particular of Bidzina Ivanishvili, to whom I think he was referring. We…27 Feb 2023HANSARDChina: Governor of Xinjiang’s VisitI can certainly assure the noble Baroness that there will be a rapid appraisal of, and I hope also a rapid response to, that assessment. To correct one thing, there is no planned…09 Feb 2023HANSARDChina: Governor of Xinjiang’s VisitMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given by my right honourable friend the Minister for Europe to an Urgent Question…09 Feb 2023HANSARDChina: Governor of Xinjiang’s VisitI thank the noble Lord for his questions. In truth, I was not able to hear the full exchange that happened earlier in the other place.09 Feb 2023HANSARDChina: Governor of Xinjiang’s VisitThe noble Lord is ahead of the game. I have not yet had a chance to go through it in detail. However, I can say that the governor was not invited to the UK by the Government, nor…09 Feb 2023