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Written Question
Republic of Congo: Politics and Government
Tuesday 21st February 2017

Asked by: Jessica Morden (Labour - Newport East)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the political situation in the Republic of Congo.

Answered by Tobias Ellwood

Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, has been relatively calm since the political protests of April 2016. I visited the Republic of Congo in August 2016. In my meeting with President Sassou I emphasised that the Presidential elections had been a missed opportunity to conduct a democratic transition of power and set an example to the region.