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Rushanara Ali Excerpts
Wednesday 14th March 2012

(12 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrew Mitchell Portrait Mr Mitchell
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The hon. Gentleman is entirely right to identify Russia as the key blocker to international agreement and to taking effective action on humanitarian relief, and more widely, in Syria. This subject is very dear to the heart of the Foreign Secretary, and he has repeatedly raised it in New York.

Rushanara Ali Portrait Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow) (Lab)
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I welcome the Government’s efforts to secure humanitarian access to help the people of Syria, but what steps are being taken to protect the estimated 230,000 internal and external refugees fleeing the violence, especially in light of reports that the Syrian regime is laying mines along the routes to the borders with Lebanon and Turkey?