Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Burmese counterpart on ethnic cleansing of Muslim refugees in Myanmar.

The Government is deeply concerned by the treatment of the Rohingya of Rakhine State, following the military's violent operation that prompted more than 600,000 Rohingya people to flee into Bangladesh. The Foreign Secretary has spoken to State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi three times since the start of the crisis, most recently on 21 October, to make clear this situation is completely unacceptable, and to call on her to resolve the crisis. The Minister for Asia and the Pacific pressed Burma's Defence Minister to ensure accountability for the perpetrators of human rights violations when they met on 20 November.