Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Anneliese Dodds and Freddie van Mierlo

Tuesday 25th February 2025 Commons Chamber

[Anneliese Dodds]

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her question, and for her passion for the protection of women and girls. Protecting them, and, indeed, religious and ethnic minorities, has been at the core of the UK’s engagement with the Syrian authorities. It was at the core of the interventions I made at the conference on Syria that I attended in Paris just a few days ago, and it is also very important in relation to the changes to sanctions that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary set out.

[Freddie van Mierlo (Henley and Thame) (LD)]

8. What steps he is taking to increase diplomatic co-operation with his European counterparts.