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HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Our top priority is to secure a permanent ceasefire. In respect of looking after British citizens who may still be there, we keep every option…02 May 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI had a meeting with chairperson Mr Moussa Faki on Saturday morning and I can assure the hon. Member that everyone is focused on precisely the problem she has set out.02 May 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe whole Government are deeply conscious of the brilliant work my hon. Friend does as an envoy; indeed, she occupies the office next door to mine inside the Foreign Office. We…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanThe hon. Lady is right to chart the nature of the RSF, which grew from the Janjaweed, which was active in Darfur. I first visited Darfur in 2006 and again in 2007. As she rightly…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanThe hon. Lady is right to raise these appalling offences that are committed against women. Obviously we have only limited ability to move the dial at this particular point in…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanI thank the right hon. Gentleman, the former Leader of the Opposition, for what he has said. He is right that there has been a formidable operation: at 5 o’clock this morning,…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanThe hon. Lady, I think, raised this case during oral questions earlier.02 May 2023HANSARD SudanI thank my hon. Friend for her comments. I know that she has passed details about these cases to my officials in the past hour, and we will of course look into them. In terms of…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanI understand the hon. Lady’s eloquent plea. I have to say to her that we are restricted by the art of the possible. If those cases have not been brought to the attention of the…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanThere are no such plans, but I can assure my hon. Friend and the House that we are still alert to any help that may be required by British citizens in Sudan, and we will provide…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanWe continue to support people at the border of Sudan with Egypt and also at the border of Sudan with Ethiopia. I have outlined to the House the steps we are taking through Port…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanAs we speak, British officials are still operating in Port Sudan, helping British citizens to leave. It is very important that the full details of any citizens in Westminster whom…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanI am sure the whole House will welcome the decision the Prime Minister made that those people should be evacuated to the United Kingdom and that they are now safely here.02 May 2023HANSARD SudanMy right hon. and gallant Friend is absolutely right about the strategic importance of RAF Akrotiri and the sovereign base areas in Cyprus, which I know all too well from my brief…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanIt was a different case. Well, for the case the hon. Lady raised in oral questions, we met between oral questions and this statement to try to make sure that officials can take up…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanMy right hon. Friend is entirely correct and highly informed in what she says. In the last few moments, the meeting of the African Union has finished in Addis Ababa. The meeting…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanThese questions rest predominantly with the Home Office rather than the Foreign Office. I think that the shadow Foreign Secretary got an outstanding answer from the Foreign…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanIf there is no ceasefire, the problem will be enormous. I can tell my right hon. Friend that the head of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Martin…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanI think I am right in saying that the hon. Lady has raised that specific case with the Foreign Office. I will undertake to ensure that efforts are renewed. The answer to her…02 May 2023HANSARD SudanThe right hon. Gentleman, who knows a great deal about Sudan and these matters from his time in office, may be even more up to date than I am. I thought that I was pretty up to…02 May 2023