Syria: De-escalation Zones Debate

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Syria: De-escalation Zones

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Points of Order
Monday 26th February 2018

(6 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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The hon. Lady asks an important question. As I said to the House, careful records and tabulations are being made of exactly what is happening with a view to holding the perpetrators to account.

Mike Wood Portrait Mike Wood (Dudley South) (Con)
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The overwhelming majority of abuses in Syria have been committed by the Assad regime and his backers. Will the Foreign Secretary assure us that everything will be done to ensure that those who flout international law and human rights laws will be held properly to account?

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We will certainly do everything we can both to gather the evidence that is necessary and to hold the perpetrators to account.

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