Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mike Martin Excerpts
Monday 31st March 2025

(2 days, 23 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Doughty Portrait Stephen Doughty
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My hon. Friend is right to highlight the need to work with our partners. My French counterpart Minister Haddad and I convened our Quint partners and the EU institutions on Friday for a joint meeting; Minister Haddad was visiting London and we took the initiative to meet our partners, because we were deeply concerned about the situation in Bosnia. We have also been engaging with those in the region, including Serbia and Croatia. I, along with the special representative, the Foreign Secretary and others, will continue to do so.

Mike Martin Portrait Mike Martin (Tunbridge Wells) (LD)
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One detects the hand of Russia here, much as one does across the entire periphery of Europe, from the High North, Ukraine, the Balkans and the Caucasus, which the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee mentioned, to the Sahel, the Maghreb and Libya, right over to the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap. Will the Minister describe the British strategy for rolling back Russian destabilisation across the entire periphery of Europe?

Mark Pritchard Portrait Mark Pritchard
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