Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Eddie Hughes and Alistair Burt

Tuesday 26th February 2019 Commons Chamber

[Eddie Hughes (Walsall North) (Con)]

What work are the Government doing to support relations and enhance the interaction between all political groups, in both opposition and government, in Iraq?

[Alistair Burt]

The formation of the Iraqi Government and the efforts being made—in particular by the President of Iraq, who is from the Kurdish region—to ensure better relationships between Irbil and Baghdad certainly seem to us to be paying dividends. Every effort is being made to enable the relationships to become stronger so that reconstruction right throughout Iraq can take place and it can once again be a strong and independent country in terms of its foreign policy, and serve all its people.